Daniel Smith and Landon Cutrer won the December installments of the Nikon Deer of the Year and the Trail Cam contests. Each of the MS-Sportsman.com users will receive a Sportsman prize package and move on to the final-round voting scheduled for February.
In the Nikon Deer of the Year contest, Smith (spearchunker77) easily took the top honors with 74 percent of the total votes cast with a photo of his sister Lauren with a 6-point killed in Yalobusha County.
“Who says Down’s syndrome is a handicap!” Smith wrote. “It’s not a booner-but its on top of our trophy list!”
In second was Patrick Norman Jr. (“Big P”) with an image of a big 12-point dubbed “Big Nasty” that gained 22 percent of the votes.
“I have been hunting this deer since I got him on camera last year (2009),” Norman wrote. “The only problem was that all of the pics were at night.
“We decided to put a camera up in a different location this year, and what do you know, there was he was in the daytime. Played the wind and got there early. He never knew I was there.”
Dwight Shaffer (walthall slayer) was in third with 4 percent of the votes. Shaffer’s photo showed a 192-inch Lamar County behemoth killed on Dec. 2.
“He is 18 points with 9 points on each side, (and) he green scored 192 4/8,” Shaffer wrote. “He is the best deer I have taken so far in my life.”
Click here to view the entire Nikon Deer of the Year gallery and post your own photos. Only registered members of MS-Sportsman.com are eligible for the contest, so be sure and sign up today.
In the Trial Cam contest, Landon Cutrer (blue goat) earned 75 percent of votes with a photo a huge buck he captured in Amite County.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the buck that checked the scrape,” Cutrer wrote. “His tines are so long, it looks like he has a rib cage on his head, hence the name ‘Rib Cage.’”
With 20 percent of the vote, Duane Gray (roughneck3) came in second for a beautiful image of a huge 8-point wading across a creek.
The final 5 percent of votes went to Scott Manning (spanky10012) with a photo of a buck walking through the show in Tishomingo County.
Click here to see the full Trail Cam photo gallery and post your own photo. But remember that only registered users are eligible for the contest, so be sure and sign up to get started today!
The MS-Sportsman.com deer hunting forum also provides user reports from around the state, so be sure and join the conversation.
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