For those of you that do not know, the bomb plant (also known as the Savannah River Site or SRS) turns out some monsters every year during their unique draw dog hunts. Located on 189,000 acres, the cold war nuclear processing facility holds some unbelievable bucks on their mostly unhunted land. However several times a year, 100 hunters are drawn to come in and either be a stander, or if you have deer dogs, a driver.

During the hunts, standers are placed about 500 yards apart on logging roads in order to surround a block. The drivers then drop the dogs in to the blocks and run everything out… and I mean everything. The one time I hunted there, I saw deer, turkeys and even squirrels scrambling to make an escape! It is a very exciting hunt, and lots of deer of all age classes and both sexes are taken since it is a management tool to reduce the number of car collisions in the facility as well as preserve the biodiversity of the forest.

My friend Brian has been drawn many times, and he just sent me this email about their last hunt:

Jeff,

I had a hunt today on the Bomb Plant for the first time this year.  It was the best hunt I have seen in about 10 years. There were so many huge Bucks killed.  Here is a picture I took of a 17 Pt. It looked like it had about a 24″ spread with about a 10 inch kicker coming straight out from the back of the main beam.  Man it was a crazy morning.

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