Normally, a 150-inch 9-point taken from the Big Black River bottoms of Hinds County would not get a lot of attention, but, then, nothing about Wil Moore’s buck is normal. […]
Michael Palamone is resigned to the fact that his Simpson County monster buck won’t reach Boone & Crockett status, but he shrugs it off with a now popular adage. […]
Ronnie Corkern had to wait only one year to see the value of quality-buck management. […]
Bubba Bennett killed his first deer, a cow-horn spike, when he was 6 years old. […]
Learning lessons from our mistakes is a hard way to gain real-world experience, but those are the kinds of lessons that stick with us for life. […]
Kenny Shiyou and Bubba Bennett are going to start dog hunting just as soon as the season opens during November, but they don’t really expect it to get cranking until the last week of dog season. […]
Few periods of a deer’s life are as important to hunters as that reproductive time commonly called the Rut. It is the subject of much discussion, anticipation and study. It is the one time each year when hunters have a better-than-average chance at seeing and harvesting a trophy buck. But do you as a hunter know how to best use the collective research to kill the trophy of a lifetime? […]
Often a hunter that has just collected a huge-trophy class buck comments that it was their “buck of a lifetime.” And Mona Owens was no different when she laid out a huge deer the day after Thanksgiving. […]
If you plan to go deer hunting on Saturday, the first day of December, take note: Due to the 2012 calendar, there is a change in the usual hunting season schedule. […]
In addition to archery equipment — crossbows, compound bows and recurves — hunters can use primitive firearms and crossbows during the primitive weapons season Dec. 1-14. […]
A before-school coyote hunt 300 yards behind his dad’s farm headquarters in Benton County produced what Kyle Simpson, 15, figures is his “buck of a lifetime.” […]
In Independence, a small unincorporated town in Tate County in Northwest Mississippi, one buck has been the talk of the community and the obsession of its deer hunters for three years.
They even gave the odd 10-point a nickname, Hercules, or Herc for short.
“Pretty much all of Independence knew about Herc,” Jody Freeman said. “He was legend and about half the hunters and landowners up here have been hunting him hard, very hard, for a long time. He was like a local celebrity.” […]
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