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Shawn Evangelista almost forgot how to form words last year. Even his three-word sentences, repeated for emphasis, were more a series of emitted vowel sounds, punctuated by gulps of air. You’d think that seeing – and indeed arrowing – a deer he’d seen hundreds of times in trail camera photographs would’ve been easy-breezy. But looking at jpegs isn’t the same as ogling the real live buck, especially when it doesn’t seem the least bit bothered by a hole in its side. But at least Shawn kept his cool when it mattered. He didn’t become undone until afterward. He and his close friend, Dave Allen, had been hoping to connect with the brute all season. Both spent countless hours setting out and checking cameras, even (by permission) on property they couldn’t hunt. Their goal was to figure out where the big whitetail was spending its days. “Between us, we run about 10 cameras,” Shawn said. “And two other friends, Gordon Brail and Bill Trump, also have cameras on nearby f...