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The Moral: Stay Out Until the Wind is Right

The Moral: Stay Out Until the Wind is Right

By Mike Handley

Tom Allen likes to nickname the whitetails on his Most Wanted list. There was Hollywood, who liked to mug for trail cameras, and Girth Brooks, whose rack carried 42 inches of mass. In 2023 and 2024, he was chasing Zeus. “This deer was like the god of the woods,” grinned the 34-year-old heavy equipment operator from Lore City, Ohio...

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