Eighty-nine-year-old Delor Wellman is one of Michigan’s most successful deer hunters. While hunting in the UP’s Delta County over the years, he shot bucks 70 years in a row. Some years he shot two bucks. He’s saved the antlers from all of the bucks he’s shot since 1948.
Someone with that much experience is bound to have valuable information to share, so I took advantage of the opportunity to interview the veteran whitetail slayer when I learned about Delor’s envious record from his son Dave. Dave Wellman is also into whitetail antlers, especially big ones. He’s a long-time measurer for state big game record keeper Commemorative Bucks of Michigan and is also a scorer for a well known national big game record keeping organization: the Boone & Crockett Club.
“I don’t go looking for them (bucks),” Delor said. “I let them come looking for me.”
The bucks he shoots aren’t actually looking for him. They are attracted to the bait he puts out. More accurately still, those bucks are looking for the does that have taken advantage of the bait
