Syracuse.com - Pompey man arrows 'buck of a lifetime' in Steuben County

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Lawrence Vielhauer is a teacher at Jamesville- Dewitt and is the father of two boys. He wished to send a special thanks to his wife for allowing him to hunt during the weekends while she watched the kids.

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Lawrence Vielhauer, of Pompey, shot this monster, 10-point buck Sunday afternoon in Steuben County.

According to Kevin Shaughnessy: "The buck weighed 238 pounds. He was harvested Sunday morning just as the sun was coming up. The shot was about 19 yards.

"He immediately knew the buck was a shooter buck when he saw the width of the antlers and the big body. He was going to take a shot when the deer was 40 yards away when making a scrape, but then the buck came closer to him and got within 19 yards.

"He stepped into a shooting lane and the arrow flew and hit its mark, double lunging the deer. He gave it four hours and then started tracing the beauty. He could not believe his eyes when he came up upon this monster and saw just how big he really was.

"He said it's a buck of a lifetime."

Vielhauer is a teacher at Jamesville Dewitt and is the father of two boys, Jerry and Gunnar, and the husband to, Michelle Vielhauer. He wished to send a special thanks to his wife for allowing him to hunt during the weekends while she watched the kids, Shaughnessy concluded.

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