Nebraska man proposes to girlfriend moments after she shoots giant buck

This will be a different kind of shotgun wedding.

A Nebraska man proposed to his girlfriend moments after she shot and killed a once-in-a-lifetime buck during a hunting trip this month.

As the couple posed for professional photos with their prized deer, boyfriend Cole Bures dropped to one knee to ask his girlfriend Samantha Camenzind to marry him.

“It was perfect, but I still didn’t expect it,” she told the Omaha World-Herald.

“It’s something we both love to do. I guess I couldn’t imagine it going any other way.”

During the recent hunting trip, the lovebirds spotted a deer on a trail camera south of Lincoln and went to pursue the unsuspecting animal.

Bures, 32, encouraged Camenzind, 28, to take the first shot.

She bagged the giant buck with 11 tines on one side of its antlers and nine on the other side.

“Everybody has been saying they would marry him, too, if he let them shoot this big of a deer,” Camenzind told the newspaper.

“I was just as excited as she was when she got it,” Bures added.

The pair have been dating for three years and bonded over their love of hunting. They both come from families who hunt and eat everything they kill.

After the deer was shot, Bures suggested he call a professional photographer to capture the big moment. As photos were being snapped, he got down on a knee and popped the question.

“I don’t know if they were more shocked we got engaged or [by] the size of the deer,” Camenzind said of her loved ones when they saw the photos.

Bures got the idea from a friend who made a similar proposal during a hunting trip in Alaska.

The two have yet to pick a wedding date, though they are aiming for next fall.

“Not during hunting season, though,” she said.