Deer of the Year
Teen’s first muzzleloader shot produces monster Yazoo County deer
Beau Johnson, 15, of Madison, isn’t likely to forget his first hunt with a muzzle-loading rifle, which took place Dec. 8 in the woods of Yazoo County. […]
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Panther Swamp NWR gives up trophy deer
Jerry Holloman neared the top of his elevated stand Dec. 1 and took one last step up when something went terribly wrong and his foot slipped and the unthinkable happened. […]
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Unique point makes for extra special buck
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. […]
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Copiah County trophy buck downed
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. […]
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Boy’s coyote hunt produces Benton County non-typical ‘monster’
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.” […]
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Eight-year-old takes down Tate County legend
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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Monster 8-point taken by youth hunter
When Landyn Murphy’s “buck of a lifetime” walked into view Nov. 12, it was her mom Cameron Murphy beside her, not her dad Danny, her usual hunting partner. […]
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Young hunter downs big Holmes County 9-point despite nerves
To hear Jeff Martin and his daughter Cameron of Lexington tell their hunting story, we know that there was a “whole lot of shaking going on” in their deer stand on last Thursday (Nov. 8).
So much so that it’s a miracle that Cameron Martin, 10, was able to take the shot that led to her first buck — a 9-pointer her father said would be a trophy buck for anyone. […]
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Yazoo County hunter’s first bow buck is 150-class monster
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. […]
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Panola County gives up 160-inch buck
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). […]
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Calhoun County hunt ends with Top-3 archery buck
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. […]
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Marshall County bean field produces 160-inch buck
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. […]