Top Story - January 23, 2012

Yazoo County 15-year-old downs huge typical buck
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. 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.
The unofficial net totaled in the 160s, ...
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MS-Sportsman.com user Dusty Smith arrowed this 170-class 15-point while hunting on Giles Island Hunting Club on Dec. 7. Annual deer hunting trip leads to 170-class trophy buck  - Dusty Smith and his father have hunted at Giles Island for the last four years and come to enjoy their annual getaway to the renowned area northwest of Natchez. Last season Smith killed a fine 8-point that scored about 120. When he and his father returned last autumn for their hunt, he couldn’t believe his good fortune when he knocked down another trophy buck.
West Point's Robert Lott took this 150-class 8-point in mid December during a hunt on the family farm in Clay County. Family farm gives up 155-inch Clay County 8-point  - West Point’s Robert Lott was practically born into a deer hunter’s paradise. The 2,500-acre timber farm in Clay County on which he lives has been in his family for four generations and is loaded with deer. Soon after Lott, his dad and younger brother, headed for their deer stands on Dec. 15, one of the farm’s monarchs stepped into the crosshairs of his scope. That buck, a product of careful management, later scored in the mid 150s Boone & Crockett.

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Savannah Pope harvested her best buck yet during a late-season hunt last year near Chunky, while hunting with her dad Randy.Randy Pope climbed into his elevated tree stand well before dawn on a recent hunt and prepared for the morning. Pope has hunted big-game animals all over the world and is an expert at finding, hunting and harvesting trophy whitetail bucks.

On this morning he chose a stand overlooking an old logging road along the edge of a hardwood bottom that borders the deer’s bedding area.

"Around 6:30 two shots rang out across the fields, and I knew the deer were on the move," said Pope. "Those deer feed in the agriculture fields at night and then travel back to a bedding area that is actually a thicket and sanctuary that is almost impenetrable.

"My plan was to catch a mature buck on his way to bed."

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