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Tracy Paul patiently waited for this 150-class 14-pointer to show up after seeing the big deer on a trail cam. And she passed up a huge 8-point to bag the buck.

Yazoo County hunter’s first bow buck is 150-class monster

October 29, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Tracy Paul might have pulled the string that flung the arrow that drove the broadhead through the lungs and heart of the buck of her dreams, but she is quick to give credit for the 150-class buck to three men in her life that made it all possible.

Her dad, Michael Peyton, got her interested in deer hunting.

Her grandfather, Bubba Vandervere, taught her patience through fishing.

And, her husband, Tim Paul, bought her a bow that got her started archery hunting for deer about five years ago. […]

Sam Wray, who goes by jmself on the MS-Sportsman.com forum, killed this 160-inch buck 48 hours after missing a big deer from the same stand.

Panola County gives up 160-inch buck

October 26, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Two days after missing on a 10-point buck he had worked so hard to get, Sam Wray of Courtland found the perfect cure for buck fever blues on Wednesday (Oct. 24). […]

Fall fishing has kicked into high gear with fish — like this big sheepshead — ganging up around the new Bay St. Louis bridge pilings.

Coast on fire, but still waiting on flounders to show up

October 24, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Anchored adjacent to a towering bridge piling, Paul Thomas had his hands full for a few hours on Saturday (Oct. 21). There were three rod holders on the back corner of his 22-foot boat, and only Thomas and his young son Ronnie were aboard. […]

The weather should be kicking off some fine crappie fishing in Mississippi Delta lakes, but the fish have veteran anglers confounded.

Delta crappie confounding best perch jerkers

October 23, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Fishing conditions could not be more ideal in the Delta. The temperatures have fallen to a more comfortable autumn range. Passing fronts are few and far between. […]

Jeffrey Wood (left) had a slow start to the 2012-13 squirrel-hunting season, in large part because of the warm weather.

Squirrel season starts off with a thud

October 16, 2012 M.A. Fisher

The squirrel-hunting season in Mississippi got off to a slow start last weekend, due in large part to very warm temperatures, according to two avid hunters in the central part of the state. […]

Baldwin's Tyler Nelson, aka "tnelson" arrowed this 160-class buck Oct. 9 on his girlfriend's family land in Marshall County.

Marshall County bean field produces 160-inch buck

October 15, 2012 Andy Crawford

Baldwin’s Tyler Nelson had been watching a Marshall County buck develop a massive set of antlers all summer long by using trail cameras set up on property owned by his girlfriend’s family.

“I’ve probably got 1,000 pictures of him over the summer,” Nelson said.

And the deer wasn’t a secret to his girlfriend’s family because it routinely visited a cut bean field every evening.

But Nelson took advantage of the fact that his girlfriend’s family didn’t have any big bow hunters, and now that monster buck — which has been greenscored at nearly 164 inches Pope & Young — to arrow the deer on Oct. 9. […]

Patrick McManus held off shooting a buck with his bow for years, waiting on a trophy to walk by. That patience paid off Oct. 3 when he arrowed this 160-class Claiborne County 9-point.

Claiborne County yields opening-week trophy buck

October 9, 2012 Cliff Covington

Having grown up hunting his family’s farm in rural Claiborne County, 23-year-old Patrick McManus is no stranger to massive whitetails. His walls are adorned with a number of these monsters, but none had been taken with stick and string.

An avid bowhunter since the young age of 12, McManus has harvested dozens of does with archery gear; however, due to an intense deer management program combined with his own personal choice to hold out for a mature whitetail, McManus had yet to realize his dream of taking a trophy buck with his bow. […]