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Entries for March 2022
Happy Ending
By Louis Locke
The perfect salve for losing a deer is to get another, even bigger one. My 2015 deer season got off to a rough start. My first — and what should’ve been my last — time in a stand that year was the evening of Oct. 1, earlier than I usually hunt. Trail camera photographs prompted me to jump-start the season. I’d planted a food... READ MORE
Getting the Drop
By Dale Weddle
Didn’t get a shot at your most-wanted whitetail this season? Wait ’til next year. Patrick Shemwell became aware that a world-class buck lived near his hunting grounds while driving around a piece of public land with his cousin, Shane Avery, in 2014. They saw the wide-racked whitetail in late August, not long before Kentucky’s bow ... READ MORE
Furnace Stoked
By Ed Waite
You know it’s cold when the thought of field-dressing the first deer you see clouds all other notions. Dalton Hunter’s mind was consumed with football in the fall of 2015. He was a junior and part of the first-string defense for the Corydon High School Panthers. With the football season soon coming to an end and the stress of it pretty ... READ MORE
Dream Season
By Dale Weddle
After two strikes, Kentucky bowhunter hits a home run during his third time at bat. Brian Strunk’s favorite hunting spot is a hollow in Pulaski County, Kentucky, a gateway through which deer enter an overgrown field. He has two options: a permanent treestand tucked in a cedar about 35 yards from where deer usually emerge, and a portable blind... READ MORE
Donnie Doesn’t Lie
By Rob Meade
Land of the Giants is everything this nonresident was led to believe. Kevin Solomon of Ridgeway, Virginia, was introduced to hunting during his teenage years by some friends whose father graciously allowed him to tag along. Kevin learned the great outdoors during these ventures and became quite content with chasing the wild game that roamed the hil... READ MORE