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Entries for July 2021
Backyard Bone Yard
By Ed Waite
This is one opening day a father and daughter aren’t likely to forget.
Mike Speaker usually ushers in Pennsylvania’s gun deer season with friends at his buddy John Kelly’s Big K Camp in McKean County.
But not last year.
“My daughter had come home from college, where she is studying to be a pharmacist, for Thanksgiving," h... READ MORE
Because of a Misfire
By Lisa Price
If this Texan’s smokepole had fired the first time, he’d have gone home with a much smaller deer. Logan Wilson of Decatur, Texas, says he’d never have hunted deer in central Kansas without his father Rodney’s influence. He and his three brothers, David, Rick and Randy, learned early on that Texas might have an enviable popul... READ MORE
The Exception
By Lisa Price
This Nebraska couple had agreed not to hang a shoulder mount in their home, but they didn’t chisel it in stone. Some women recovering from surgery try their hand at knitting or crocheting. Others watch TV or read bestseller after bestseller. Lori Moore of Arapahoe, Nebraska, spent a lot of time gazing at a new piece of wall art she thought sh... READ MORE
Michigan Milestone
By Richard P. Smith
The deer gods care not for how many years are under your belt, nor how many notches are in it. In most cases, fathers who are hunters naturally take on the responsibility of getting their sons and daughters involved in the sport by passing on the tradition. The opposite is true for 37-year-old John Tolfree of Milan, Michigan. John’s son, Conn... READ MORE