Teen's trophy buck stolen, viral Facebook posts helps get deer back – Channel3000.com

November 21, 2022 5:43 PM Posted: November 21, 2022 5:43 PM Updated: November 21, 2022 8:58 PM PORTAGE, Wis. — A 15-year-old’s successful hunting experience was literally taken away from him, but thanks to some online sleuthing, the story has a happier ending. Garrett Diehm shot the buck in Columbia County on opening weekend for the nine-day gun-deer hunting season. Diehm’s mother Sarah said the buck was stolen off of their property in the time it took the boy and his family to run back to the house to let his grandparents know. “We went up, took a bunch of pictures with it, went up to my grandparents’ house to get a wagon and supplies to field dress it, my mom used the bathroom, we came back and the buck was gone,” Diehm recalled. “I was just amazed and really mad. I did not think that would happen to us back on our own property way back in the woods where there’s like nobody back there,” he added. Sarah Diehm, who couldn’t believe what had happened at first, turned to Facebook, sharing photos of the buck in a post about what happened. That post got more than 5,000 shares on
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