SMOKE -- Harris County teen puts woman’s touch on bruiser 12 pointer, 164 7/8 net

A youth hunter’s first buck often packs the goods for a pretty good story.

Addi Loving’s tale is a doozie Fittingly, so is the buck she calls “Smoke.”

The story is especially noteworthy because it unfolded in the company of a longtime family friend and culminated with a bruiser of a whitetail taken along the San Jacinto river bottom within the distant shadows of downtown Houston, roughly 40 miles away.