Gadberry, who owns an auto body repair shop in Unionville, Missouri, recalls every moment of the 1998 hunt when his dad shot a buck that measured 195 5/8 on the Boone & Crockett scale.

“I was a year short of being old enough to hunt in Missouri,” Gadberry says, “and I remember sitting with my dad and watching a lot of young bucks—any one of which would have made a heck of a first buck for someone—and him saying, ‘I think we could have got you one today.’”

It was Zach who spotted the deer, when they were walking through a gate moving from one hunting spot to another. “I can remember him shooting it. We didn’t realize how big it was at that point, but it’s been a joke with him ever since that I’m chasing him, trying to get a bigger one.”