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Shane Frost Buck: 216-Inch Non-Typical Trophy  by Clay Newcomb
  |  April 22nd, 2013 0   Twenty-eight feet high in a lock-on
stand sat a lone bowhunter, as still as a stone, with nervous
palms grasping his weapon. Seven yards beyond the perched
hunter, a 28-point, drop-tined swamp monster with antlers as
massive as a cluster of young cypress knots, swaggered in behind
a group of does. Without warning, the buck stopped and snapped
his glare directly into the hunter’s leaf-barren tree. With
squinted eyes, Shane Frost, of Paragould, Arkansas, in a
motionless reflex, prayed a silent prayer that the monarch
wouldn’t bust him. Within seconds, fate would choose its path.
“I could have let an arrow fly,” Frost said, “but I just wasn’t
going to take a marginal shot at a buck like this.”  Shane would
not see the buck again until November 2011.     Hunting the huge
river bottoms is difficult because there aren’t many
topographical features to funnel deer in