Jeremy Myers’ third, fourth and fifth deer killed this season came at the end of a two-week hunting trip and included the biggest buck of his career, a 165-pound, eight-pointer he shot Jan. 27.

That big deer shared the spotlight with the two deer the New Iberia outdoorsman killed two days later while continuing his

deer hunting trip in Wilcox County, Alabama, where Brad Pisani of New Iberia and his Performance Air and Performance Winch coowners have a lease.

Pisani, Myers, a salesman for the company, and his father, Kelly Myers, another salesman, joined him on the trip.

“He’s had a streak of luck this year. I think he’s got five this year. I’ve got one. I haven’t had a streak of luck this year,” Pisani said, ruefully and with a chuckle, about his season and that of his salesman.

Jeremy Myers, 32, has enjoyed every minute of the season, a season that is over.

“I guess it’s just the good luck. Last year I didn’t get nothing out of there. This year they were there for me,” he said.

The eight-point buck moved within 30 yards of his deer stand that Friday morning at 6:50 a.m.

“Well, I kept looking and kept looking. I turned to my left and there he was. He kind of heard me when I turned, put his head straight up and started looking at me,” the younger Myers said. “As he turned around, I grabbed my gun, put it through the window and pulled the trigger. A matter of seconds is all it took. The minute I put the bullet in him he dropped right there.”

On Sunday, his trip, which he uses to take customers out for a deer hunt, turned even more exciting.

At 10:35 a.m., a few minutes after he exited his deer stand, he was walking along a trail and jumped a doe and buck in

the clearcut. He shouldered his rifle and shot the doe 35 yards away.

“The buck jumped up and ran a good ways. It circled back and I heard a noise,” Myers said.

“When I looked up there he was, 25, 35 yards away and running at me. I shot him with my last bullet. That was kind of frightening.”

That buck was a 6-pointer, he said. It was making a beeline back to the doe during the height of the rut, he said.

Myers said he was glad to get home to his family after two weeks of out-ofstate deer hunting. He and his wife, Dana Smith

Myers, have two children, son Bryson, 9, who attends North Street Elementary, and daughter Amber, 14, a student at Belle Place Middle School.

It looks like they are following in the family footsteps, or about to.

“We’re all outdoorsmen. We hunt. We fish. We ride four-wheelers,” he said about his family heritage. “I’ve got my son hunting with me now. My daughter wants to.”

Pisani, 32, said he was happy for him … and South Louisiana.

“Alabama kicked our butt in the BCS game but we went to ’Bama and took some of their deer back with us,” Pisani said.