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It takes a lot of time and effort scouting for the best spots at Old River WMA, but those that put in the time are sometimes rewarded with big bucks.

Playing Hard to Get — Head to Old River WMA for great deer hunting

November 1, 2012 Chris Ginn

Inaccessible river bottomland attracts more deer than it does deer hunters. […]

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). […]

Ricky Sullivan poses with Pea Vine, the deer he and his buddy, Duke Wilson, had been after for two seasons.

Unlikely Lauderdale: How the county’s biggest buck was killed

October 25, 2012 Otha Barham

It was Jan. 18, 2012 — the last day of Mississippi’s zone 1 rifle season. And Ricky Sullivan knew immediately when he saw the buck at 210 yards that it was Pea Vine. […]

Three primary tricks to trophy hunting are weather, wind and stand placement.

WWW: Weather, wind and where to deer hunt

October 24, 2012 John J. Woods

It seems the whole world these days is ruled by communication via initials. Electronic forms of communication via a multitude of handheld devices has created a language predicated on a series of short buzz words or sound-bite phrases reduced further to a few letters.

These letters in triples carry the meaning of the message or an exclamatory remark, such as LOL or OMG or as my daughter sums up most responses with “whatever.” Perhaps all this started with the initiation of the World Wide Web phenomenon, or the www.coms, as we have come to know it. […]

Trail camera technology has progressed to offer true no-flash options that produce clearer images and don’t spook bucks.

All flashes are not equal

October 22, 2012 Bill Garbo

This past week I ran by the showroom of one of my favorite hunting-products companies that, fortunately for me, happens to be headquartered about a 20-minute drive from my home. My goal was to check out their new trail camera line in person and grab two or three of their latest “black-flash” cameras to replace some of my older antiquated “red-glow” flash (so-called “infrared”) models. […]

A hog hunt by Calhoun City's Shane Ragon ended in the killing of this massive buck, which has been greenscored at more than 200 inches Pope & Young.

Calhoun County hunt ends with Top-3 archery buck

October 17, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

It was fitting that Shane Ragon fell to his knees when he first put his hands on the massive antlers of the buck he killed Oct. 6 in the middle of a sweet potato field near his home in Calhoun County.

Heck, he was on both knees when he made the shot.

“I am not ashamed to tell you that I got very emotional when I grabbed those antlers and lifted them up and saw what I had done,” the 40-year-old Ragon said. “I cried. I laughed. I cried again. And I laughed again. […]

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. […]

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