Rick Place, of Sidney, says there isn’t much of a backstory to the massive buck he killed in the fall of 2022. It was more “right place at the right time.”
That right time was Oct. 28, 2022, when Place killed a 13-point buck that scored 196 4/8 non-typical. Place shot the big buck with no trail cam pictures, and no other sightings on a 4-acre piece of land.
Ohio buck shot on 4-acre property in Auglaize County scores 196 4/8
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