Don Brenneman took this gorgeous velvet whitetail in Maryland on September 9th, 2025.
October 11, 2025
By Clifford Neames
Don Brenneman cranked up his Maryland bow season in a big way, taking a giant velvet 7x7 on his first sit of the year.
“This one is a good bit larger than anything I have encountered before," he explained. “But I was hunting on familiar ground.”
Don grew up playing on the 120-acre property, taking his first deer there a long time ago. Many years later, when it went up for sale in 2015, he bought the tract. Since then, he and his son in law, Derek Workman, have coverted it into a whitetail haven — clearing land and adding food plots in an effort to grow mature bucks.
The big buck first drew their attention in 2024 as a noteworthy 10-point. He...
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