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A Shot to Remember
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By David Norton
-- The most memorable hunt to date that I can think of was when my son 7-year-old son Jared took his third buck. He received a new .243 for Christmas in 2003, and was really itching to try it out. So the day after Christmas, we woke ...
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Generational Glory
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By F.V. “Fred” Davis
-- It was the second morning of the 2007 Indiana firearms deer season. I telephoned my dad, Freddie, to ask how his hunt was going.
“I shot at a buck, but I don’t know if I got him,” he said...
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A New-Found Obsession
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By Lindsay Creasy
-- After several years of successful deer hunting, I had become somewhat bored. Although deer hunting was still a passion, some part of me wanted something different with more of a challenge.
Ironically, soon after my longing for ...
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Small Lease, Big Texas Buck
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By Ronald Payne
-- This past year was tough on hunters. With all the rainfall we had in East Texas, the deer just didn’t have a lot of incentive to get up and move around, except, of course, at night.
That said, my friend Jeff Cunningham and...
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First deer by muzzleloader
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By Dennis Thielke
-- What began as a very frustrating deer season ended on a happy note in mid-December. I saw a few deer, but I never got a shot at one during Minnesota's bow season. I got to pull the trigger during the firearms season, but I had n...
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Rothe Buck That's Scared of His Own Shadow
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By Roman York
-- Three years ago, I was fortunate enough to get exclusive rights to hunt a north Georgia property that's known to hold some big deer. The area hadn't been pressured by hunters since the turn of the century, or so I was told.&nb...
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Michigan Begins Fawn Survival Study
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From the Michigan DNR
-- The Department of Natural Resources today announced the start of a new research project in the Upper Peninsula. The project will investigate the role of predators, winter weather and habitat on white-tailed deer fawn surviva...
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First Buck by Bow
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By Michael Glenn Jr.
-- Although I now live in Alabama, I was born in Mt. Vernon, Ill. Every Thanksgiving, I go back home to hunt with my father for six or seven days. This is the only time we get to spend together in the woods.
Whenever our ...
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The Family That Hunts Together Stays Together
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By Ray Alexander
-- I've always put in long hours bowhunting, but with my 11-year-old son Ray Alexander III coming of hunting age, all we did was hunt squirrels for weeks. Finally, I decided to take a few hours to walk the ridge with my bow.
I had ...
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Opportunity and Redemption
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By Matt Kirksey
-- It was November 2006. The Alabama deer season had just gotten underway, and I was itching to get in the woods with my oldest son, Hunter. All week he had been telling me he was going to go. However, as 12-year-olds are apt to do, ...
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What Would You Trade for a Trophy Buck?
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By Wayne Barber, Jr.
-- Like many a Southern boy, I went to Illinois looking for a hunting adventure. Little did I know that I would actually have the hunt of a lifetime.
My good friend and owner of the Illinois Connection, Doug Benefield, was tell...
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That's No Doe!
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By Jacob Rickett
-- I play baseball at North Georgia College State and University. When not in class or on the ball field, I'm in the woods - either hunting deer or chasing turkeys in Oglethorpe County. If it's not hunting season, I'm bass fishing.
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Big John
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By Russell Latimer
-- I've hunted every year for 33 years and have never taken what most people would call a trophy buck. And because deer hunting has become big business, I have never been able to afford to hunt on a trophy-type lease. None...
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The Grunt That Saved the Season
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By Denis C. Querio
-- Let me preface this story by informing you that I am handicapped and must wear a full brace on my left leg to walk properly.
It was the last day of the 1998 archery season. A friend of mine took me to his uncle’s far...
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Birthday Surprise
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By Jacky Mowrey
-- I've been hunting ever since I was a young pup. A couple of decades prior to the 2008 season, I'd seen only one "dwarf deer." A friend's wife shot it.
I had the pleasure of shooting my own on my 49th birthday: Jan. 8, 2...
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Carter's First Deer
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By Tony Perez
-- My eight-year-old son Carter's "Papaw" is a deer-hunting fanatic, so imagine Carter’s excitement when Papaw announced that he was going to take Carter to his deer lease in Brady, Texas, for a whitetail hunt.
I went ...
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The Unexpected Buck
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By Robert R. Rogers
-- The 2008 Ohio archery season started out warm and the deer were not moving as much as we had hoped. Just walking to our stands made the sweat roll down our faces and backs. This was not the weather we had expected for central ...
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Oklahoma Deer Hunt Much Better Than OK
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By Kelly Guinn
-- My hunt for a trophy buck began in late October 2007 in Woods County, Okla. I was hunting from a ladder stand about 100 yards from a river. Some does, spikes, and young 8-point came into view, but no mature deer. However, my friend...
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"It's Dad's Turn Now"
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By David Kisamore
-- I am 42 years old. In my 30-plus years of hunting, some of my greatest joys have been teaching my now 14-year-old son, Joshua, how to hunt and then having the privilege of seeing him bag his first deer, a large doe.
That was ba...
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Season Salvaged
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By Adam Riley
-- Because I was in my first semester of college and playing football, there weren't many opportunities for me to get in the woods during the 2008-09 hunting season. But I learned quickly that in terms of bucks and time spent afield, q...
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