Deer of the Year
Mayfield adapts, overcomes and gets Delta trophy
Ryan Mayfield has a knack for adapting to a situation and overcoming obstacles, at least he does when it comes to deer hunting in the North Mississippi Delta. […]
Deer of the Year
Deer of the Year
Hunter takes 136-inch buck in Warren County
Kevin Sumrall, who a few days earlier had helped his best hunting buddy kill a potential Warren County record buck, might have just discovered a new cure for a case of strep throat. […]
Deer of the Year
House hunter kills 150-inch velvet buck before doctor’s appointment
Before telling Chad Ridout’s story about killing a Neshoba County trophy buck, there’s this important message for his employer Mississippi Power Company. […]
Deer of the Year
Pending Warren County record bow buck downed
Tony Mills is a true deer hunter, the kind who finds a big buck with a lot of time and effort, and then hunts that buck and that buck only until he has success. […]
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2013 Deer of the Year
Hunters across the state complained of poor deer sightings during the 2012-13 season. Even the keeper of the Magnolia Records had a down season. […]
Deer of the Year
Panther Swamp NWR gives up trophy buck
Saucier’s Josh Saucier and a few of his friends decided to make a trip to Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge near Yazoo City in hopes of harvesting a good buck shortly after New Year’s Day. […]
Deer of the Year
Hunter takes rare weekday off, gets a 15-point
In mid-December, Burton Swoope of Belden had a gut feeling and a few days off remaining. He put those two together and drove south toward his deer camp near Columbus for a day he won’t soon forget.
“I knew the rut was on and I just decided to use a vacation day and hunt this particular Wednesday,” said Swoope, the plant manager of a concrete plant in Pontotoc.
The result: a 15-point buck that green-scored a gross of 167 5/8 and a net of 153 6/8. It is a thick and long but not particularly wide mainframe 11-point with four sticker points.
It is a brute, and the result of two decades of management on family property in the Golden Triangle area of the historically productive deer region known as the Black Belt Prairie.
“I killed him on family land outside of Columbus, where we’ve been under some type of management program for about 20 years,” Swoope said. “We started back in the early 90’s just trying to shoot 8-pointers or better. Now we try to only take fairly mature bucks, regardless of points, and a few does. It’s paid off with some really nice bucks over the years but as far as I know he’ll be the highest scoring ever killed on our land.” […]
Deer of the Year
Rain doesn’t deter Bean from getting 153-inch late-season 10-point
You won’t hear Billy Bean of Una cursing the rainy weather that plagued deer hunters over the final week of the gun season throughout Mississippi. […]
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DeSoto County buck is new state record for typical archery
Kevin Medlin didn’t have time to think about such things as rewriting Mississippi’s archery record book when a monster buck walked out of a thicket 50 yards from his stand on Nov. 11 in DeSoto County.
“I didn’t even have time to get nervous,” Medlin said. “It all happened so fast. I guess from the time I saw him to the time I watched him crash down in a thicket wasn’t much more than a minute, if it was that long. It all happened that quick.”
A green score that day produced over 190 inches gross, beginning a long wait for the 60-day drying period to pass. Friday, the wait ended when the 13-point — a mainframe 10 with three sticker points — was proclaimed the new state record for typical deer by bow. […]
Deer of the Year
Woman’s first buck is a 145-inch Yazoo 10-point
When Jennifer Mayfield of Madison was preparing to shoot her first buck, which happened to be a Yazoo County whopper, she didn’t have to calm her nerves so much as, well, those of her hunting partner. […]
Deer of the Year
Eight-year-old scores big with a 14-point
When Hayden Kyle’s Christmas break started at Pontotoc Elementary School, he and his dad Jay began a quest to get the 8-year-old hunter his first trophy buck. […]
Deer of the Year
Hunter gets her ‘Oh My Gosh Buck’
Delise Menotti of Vicksburg loves deer hunting to the extent of few women. From the start of bow season to the end of the final primitive weapon season, she eats, sleeps and dreams the sport.
She hunts as often as possible, usually with her husband Scott.
Heck, she even wrote a country music song about it, which includes these lyrics: “I’m huntin’ deer and my dear is huntin’ me. Gotta Boone and Crockett in my scope, said a prayer asked for hope and steadied my rifle for the shot.” […]