{"id":652070,"date":"2025-12-21T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/?p=652070"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:13:41","slug":"mason-county-hunter-takes-down-a-giant-after-landowner-suggest-he-check-out-a-new-piece-of-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2025\/12\/21\/mason-county-hunter-takes-down-a-giant-after-landowner-suggest-he-check-out-a-new-piece-of-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason County hunter takes down a giant after landowner suggested he check out a new piece of land"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEON, W.Va.<\/strong> — When the 2025 archery season opened up, Brady Reymond of Milton, W.Va. had plans to hunt a 150 acre plot of property he leased from a landowner in Mason County. But the same landowner, a longtime friend, had recently been gifted a new piece of property. It was a 17 acre plot and he offered to let Brady look it over as another potential hunting spot.<\/p>\n

“It was kind of out of the blue and I said, ‘Well heck I’ll throw up a cell camera on anything.’ Then low and behold the first four pictures I got were the buck I ended up killing,” said Reymond in an episode of West Virginia Outdoors.<\/p>\n

The discovery was made early in the archery season just as bucks were starting to chase does. The situation intrigued Reymond who made plans to hunt the area after those pictures and some brief scouting. But, it would be a hunt which started out with a mistake, which turned out to be no mistake at all.<\/p>\n

“I had an idea of the tree I wanted to be in with my climber, so I got in there before daylight, but I got confused. I set my climber up in a tree, but it turned out I was way closer to a set of rubs than I wanted to be down wind of. The tree I wound up getting in, I could only get about 13 or 14 feet up before limbs were overhanging and you wouldn’t have shooting lanes,” he said.<\/p>\n

Listen to “Brady Reymond — Mason County buck” on Spreaker.<\/a>
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