Competitive Couple
Story by Dave Fisher
Photos submitted by
Bobbee Hueckman
Husband and wife revel in friendly competition come hunting season.
What will the 2015 season hold for Brandon and Bobbee Hueckman?
T
he 2015 hunting season is just
around the corner, and for Bran-
don and Bobbee Hueckman it
marks a renewal of what has be-
come a competition, of sorts, as
to who will have the best of it. So
far, it’s been a friendly competi-
tion, says Bobbee, wife of Brandon.
Three years ago, the 27-year-old hair stylist killed
a “really nice” four-point buck from a distance of
275 yards during an outing with her father-in-law,
Billy Hueckman.
The following year, she
was successful, after again
From a
bagging an even nicer three-
point buck that scored 161,
distance of
on a hunting trip with Bran-
75 yards,
don and Billy.
“It was bigger and more
Brandon
symmetrical,” said Bobbee.
killed, with
“There were hardly any
points to deduct since it was
a single shot,
so perfect.”
what many
Last year, Brandon was
say was the
in the Murderers Creek Unit
on opening day of elk sea-
biggest bull
son when he came upon the
taken in
biggest bull he’d ever seen,
45-minutes into his solo
Grant County
hunt. Taken back by the
in recent
sight, not to mention his
luck, he sat down behind a
memory.
rock to appreciate and savor
the once-in-a-life-time mo-
ment. This was on the heels of a week spent scout-
ing the area prior to hunting season, in which he
didn’t see anything in the area.
According to Bobbee, he would later admit all he
could think about at the time was “Don’t screw this up.”
Brandon didn’t. From a distance of 75 yards, he
killed, with a single shot, what many say was the
biggest bull taken in Grant County in recent memory,
certainly the biggest bull ever killed in the Hueck-
man family, and that’s saying something. The bull
scored 349 and 7/8.
Brandon and Bobbee Hueckman with one of two bucks Bobbee has killed in the past three years on hunting expeditions.
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