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Some great trophy deer were killed this season in Mississippi.

Deer of the Year

March 1, 2012 Andy Crawford

The Mississippi Delta has long been known for the big bucks that wander this fertile area of the state, and the Magnolia Records are replete with examples of Delta trophies. […]

User Dedicated Dad is one of four finalists in the last voting session of the 2011-12 Nikon Big Buck Photo Contest.

Vote in final Big Buck Photo Contest session

February 20, 2012 Andy Crawford

It’s time to choose the final winner of the 2011-12 Big Buck Photo Contest, which ended with the close of the hunting season. […]

Madison County hunter Jonathan Cleveland almost went back to bed Jan. 15 but now he's happy he sat a stand: He killed this 150-inch 10-point minutes after settling in his tree.

Reluctant hunt results in trophy buck

February 17, 2012 Glynn Harris

When Jonathan Cleveland went to bed on the night of Jan. 15, he had plans to be in a deer stand the following day. However, when he climbed out of bed the next morning, one look outside gave him second thoughts: It was warm, with south-southwest winds gusting to 25 miles per hour. […]

Michael Rogillio downed a beautiful 10-point typical buck at Giles Island about two months after his dad nailed a 175-inch non-typical brute at the same place.

Giles Island makes like-father-like-son wish come true

February 9, 2012 Craig Holt

Michael Rogillio was happy when his father Ricky Rogillio downed a double drop-tine whitetail trophy on Nov. 30 while hunting at Giles Island Hunting Club. But the 22-year-old never dreamed he’d have a chance to find out what the saying “like father, like son” meant 61 days later at the same place. […]

The author fabricates homemade camera stands to place his trail cams exactly where he wants them.

Trail camera scouting

February 1, 2012 Bill Garbo

This is my inaugural column in Mississippi Sportsman based around the general topic of trail-camera scouting. Each month I will share advice, tips, tactics, strategies and techniques regarding the use of digital scouting cameras that have proven useful to me over time in the successful pursuit of whitetail deer on my farm in west-central Mississippi. […]

Cover: February 2012

February 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

Natchez hunter Will Rives may have broken his own state record when he arrowed this 180-class monster in January. […]

Clara Grace Bozeman topped off her season with this massive 9-point she killed on New Year's Day, a week after killing a huge 8-point.

Flora high-schooler kills two Madison County trophy bucks

January 31, 2012 Michael O. Giles

Clara Grace Bozeman has been deer hunting with her dad Harvey for a few years now, and she harvested her first buck at the young age of 10.

“Clara Grace told me she wanted to go hunting and use her own gun as well,” Harvey Bozeman said. “So I bought her a 7mm-08 Browning A-Bolt, and we went hunting the next year and she killed her first deer with it. And she’s never missed since!”

She continued that streak with two huge bucks killed during the Christmas holiday while hunting on the Madison County family farm. […]

This buck, killed by Harvey Guillot on Davis Island, featured a rack with a 26 1/8-inch spread. It has green scored at almost 180 inches B&C.

Massive Davis Island 9-point stretches tape to nearly 180 inches

January 26, 2012 Glynn Harris

With his week of vacation coming agonizingly to a close on Dec. 30, Harvey Guillot cashed in on a magnificent 9-point buck at the last minute on his Rosedale Hunting Club on Davis Island, and it did it in an unconventional way. […]

Art Melancon only sat a stand on New Year's Day because his wife insisted, but the final sit of the holiday trip ended with this 150-class Franklin County 10-point.

Bruiser Franklin County 10-point killed after wife forces hunter into woods

January 24, 2012 Alan Clemons

Art Melancon was ready to go home after two weeks of relaxing, hunting and watching football games over the New Year’s holiday weekend.

After waking up on New Year’s Day and watching the New Orleans Saints, he wanted to load up and head back to Louisiana. But his wife wasn’t ready to go home yet. […]

Johnnie Dupont killed this 150-inch buck while running dogs on the Homochitto National Forest on Dec. 27.

Public-land dog-hunt ends with 150-class buck

January 24, 2012 Alan Clemons

All Johnnie Dupont could see of the big buck slipping along the ridge was the front shoulders and rear end.

But after seeing a few deer easing through the woods ahead of the hounds released for a Dec. 27 dog drive in the Homochitto National Forest, Dupont kept his eyes on this one that had stopped to look and listen. […]

Brandon High School's Josh Alford knocked down this huge 12-point, green scored at more than 190 inches gross, while hunting in Yazoo County on Dec. 29.

Yazoo County 15-year-old downs huge typical buck

January 23, 2012 Craig Holt

Fifteen-year-old Josh Alford of Brandon knew what buck he wanted to kill when he hit the woods with his brother and uncle during Christmas break because the big 12-point typical had been captured on trail-cam photos several times.

What Alford didn’t know until he killed it on Dec. 29 was that it was just a monster Yazoo County deer: It has been green scored by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks at 192 gross inches. […]

Ricky Sullivan killed this big buck, which green scored more than 200 inches Buckmaster and could be the largest deer killed in Lauderdale County, last Wednesday (Jan. 18). Pictured with him is his wife Becky

Another possible Lauderdale County record buck taken

January 23, 2012 Otha Barham

Last Wednesday (Jan. 18) was the final day of Mississippi’s Deer Management Zone 1 modern-rifle season, and Ricky Sullivan was in his shooting house as he had been countless times during the long season.

He had lived in that stand the previous week, missing only that Tuesday because of work, because bucks were running does seemingly everywhere across East Mississippi. […]