Daniel Smith and Landon Cutrer won the December installments of the Nikon Deer of the Year and the Trail Cam contests. Each of the MS-Sportsman.com users will receive a Sportsman prize package and move on to the final-round voting scheduled for February.
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It’s time for MS-Sportsman.com users to decide the best photos entered in the December edition of the Nikon Deer of the Year and the Trail Cam contests. Voting will continue through Jan. 5, with winners in each contest announced Jan. 6.
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Jerry Tassin was sitting in an oak bottom on the 40-acre family piece of Lamar County property when his phone rang Christmas afternoon.
“My dad said, ‘There is a big deer right here, and he won’t come out. So see if you can get him,’” Tassin said.
So the hunter eased out of his stand and stalked through the rain-soaked woods as the day’s light quickly faded. Soon, Tassin was near the pipeline his father Joseph was watching.
And there, at the edge of the woods, stood a big buck that later taped out at 150 inches. […]
Bradly Hammill wasn’t after a monster buck when he stepped into his Claiborne County stand the day after Thanksgiving. Well, maybe he was, but he had no idea a 170-inch buck would show up that afternoon. […]
December 21, is my birthday. This year my son Hal, my grandson,Jimmy and I were hunting at Itta Bena Hunting club, as usual.
Jimmy had been hunting with me, trying to kill his fourth buck (he is 10 years old). This morning Hal had taken Jimmy duck hunting, where he killed his first duck in the air. This gave me a little time to hunt alone. […]
A group of Sportsman anglers and their friends will be flying to Costa Rica on April 3 for three days of offshore fishing – and there are still a few spots left on this trip of a lifetime. […]
Will Rives wasn’t out to kill a state-record deer when he went bow hunting Dec. 14, but that’s exactly what he left the woods with.
Now Rives tells the story of the kill, in his own words, in this MS-Sportsman.com video interview. […]
Editor’s note: This buck was later certified as the state-record archery buck, topping the category in the Magnolia Records at 172 4/8 Pope & Young.
Will Rives is a die-hard hunter who is lucky enough to hunt almost every day during the winter. But on Dec. 15, he woke up at 4:30, got dressed and stepped outside to find a south wind and 60-degree weather – and then promptly walked back inside, crawled in bed and went back to sleep.
“That’s not like me, it usually doesn’t matter if it’s 80 outside,” Rives said. “When we knock off (of work) for the wintertime, I hunt every day. I’m relentless.” […]
Your heart is still pounding uncontrollably as the overdose of adrenaline rushes through your veins. Only seconds have passed since you squeezed the trigger on the biggest buck you’ve ever seen. Everything happened so fast that it almost seemed like a dream.
But what you do now may determine whether you recover your trophy. […]
A 112-acre cedar thicket may not seem like prime woods for killing trophy bucks, but then again, it depends on where the thicket is. The cedar thicket David Coleman hunts is apparently in exactly the right spot. […]
Dwight Shaffer doesn’t have a lot of land to hunt. In fact, he has just a few small tracts scattered out that he spends time on. But a 66-acre piece of Walthall County property turned out to be all he needed to knock down a mammoth buck that green scored more than 190 inches. […]
It’s not that Scott Hidalgo doesn’t hunt a lot. It wasn’t even because he hadn’t been successful as a deer hunter. No, rotten luck was the reason Hidalgo hadn’t killed a rack buck in the 17 years since he began deer hunting when he climbed into a stand on Nov. 21. […]
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