“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.
Massive Davis Island 9-point stretches tape to nearly 180 inches January 26 at 4:22 pm 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.
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.
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.
Yazoo County 15-year-old downs huge typical buck January 23 at 2:50 pm 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.
Annual deer hunting trip leads to 170-class trophy buck January 16 at 9:33 am 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.
Family farm gives up 155-inch Clay County 8-point January 14 at 9:49 am 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.
“I say a prayer every time I get in a stand,” the 17-year-old Shannon High School junior said.
Those prayers paid off in spades on Jan. 4 when he killed a 170-inch deer dubbed the Stoner Hill buck by the members of Aesland Sportsman Club in Prairie.
Wayne County deer herd gets a little thinned January 09 at 10:46 am Eastcentral Mississippi isn't known for producing bucks that are even in the same category as the trophies that hail from the Delta, but what the area certainly doesn't lack is numbers.
For the last two years, Benefield and his fellow hunters had seen the buck on trail camera photos. There was no doubt this was the same one, and definitely a product of their selective management plan on the Lauderdale County tract.
The problem was the buck’s amorous display with the does. It had no intentions of sticking around to show off its antlers. Love was in the air of the creek bottom where Benefield had been sitting for almost two hours for an afternoon hunt.
What Benefield was looking at, and eventually put his hands on, could be the biggest buck killed in the county in 60 years. The 23-point non-typical green-scored 182 3/8 on the Boone & Crockett system – it was 161 1/8 as a typical – and also topped 183 7/8 on the Buckmasters BTR scoring system.
Sunflower County gives up 187-inch typical buck January 07 at 11:39 am Brian Andrus got a second chance at the buck of his lifetime Nov. 28, and made it pay off by downing one of the great typical bucks of the 2011-12 hunting season.
The 32-year-old row-crop farmer from Moorhead took advantage of access to a 500-acre block of his family’s Sunflower County farm, part used for duck hunting and the other for deer hunting, to take the deer that has been green scored at nearly 190 inches Boone & Crockett.
The giant whitetail he dropped Dec. 1 that green scored 167 3/8 and had bases of almost 7 inches made thoughts of his crazy morning disappear, however.
Hunter kills 180-class buck on small tract in middle of Black Prairie WMA December 27, 2011 at 9:51 am Neil Waggoner and his family live on 40 acres he grew up loving, a familiar tract of gently rolling hills and a 10-acre lake surrounded by the Black Prairie Wildlife Management Area in Lowndes County.
For the last few weeks, Waggoner had been using his three tracking dogs to help other hunters. He also missed an 8-point buck that rattled him.
“Buck fever or I looked up or something, I guess,” Waggoner said.
A few days later on Dec. 18, amid an orange sunset casting enough light to make a set of antlers glow, Waggoner knew the big buck in the edge of the field was a good one.
Ten-year-old hunters don’t want to quit. Night? Bah, not a problem. Keep looking for the deer, the one with the giant antlers that thrilled him beyond belief.
But the big 11-point whitetail that eventually scored 153-plus was in bed for the night. So were Collin and his father Greg, who knew waiting for the next day to take out their tracking Lab would be the best option.
