A Wyoming hunter said she feels blessed by how everything fell into place, giving her the opportunity to shoot a mule deer that could turn out to be one of the top monster bucks of the 2025 hunting season.

Lori Dickinson of Rock Springs said that if her husband, Josh, hadn’t glanced backward exactly when he did, they’d have missed the buck, nicknamed “the Gray Ghost.”

She and Josh were hunting with a family friend near Bondurant on Sept. 19 when she shot the buck. Preliminary measurements of the antlers include a spread of 33 ¼ inches and an overall gross score of 201 1/8 inches.

That’s according to the Boone and Crockett (B&C) trophy big game measuring system. It’s based on taking measurements of length and girth at several points along the antlers.

Spread refers to the point of maxi

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