After-shot care makes for better trophy (St. Joseph News-Press)
Unlike most of the hunting shows — in which outdoor celebrities seem to add one or two trophy whitetails to their collection every time you turn on the television — the chances of taking a wall hanger come few and far between for most of us.
Expert makes a point with 21-pointer (Stillwater Gazette)
OAK PARK HEIGHTS - After years of hunting trips, Stillwater Area High School field biology student Dan Swope has seen some impressive bucks, but never as close as he did Wednesday afternoon, when the school hosted deer expert Steve Porter and the three impressive whitetail he brought with him.
Good hunters use everything to find deer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Steve Stoltz, a bowhunter from Oakville, with a buck Stoltz bagged in White County, Illinois. The big whitetail scored 154 gross points using the Pope and Young scoring system.
Outdoors notes (Austin American-Statesman)
McBride Conservation Fund banquet
Dave Richey: Deciding when to shoot a buck (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The buck was a nice animal. It was an adult two-year-old with eight points, the beginning of a really nice rack, and he wasn't rut-crazed just yet. This rack, while still thin and spindly, had an inside spread of 16 inches and good brow points. The buck came to me early Wednesday evening with plenty of shooting light, and he stood at an extreme quartering-away angle for long minutes. It was a ...
HILTS: Lake of the woods is sportsman’s paradise (The Journal-Register)
Bill Hilts. Jr. brings you this week's outdoors calendar.
Bow season in progress (Anderson Independent-Mail)
Recipes for venison.
Sharing knowledge on whitetails (Thief River Falls Times)
Redwood, a 3-year-old whitetail buck with 12 points, was one of three deer Steve Porter brought to Lincoln High School in Thief River Falls on Monday, Sept. 29.
Outdoors: All forecasts point to promising whitetail deer season (Waco Tribune-Herald)
If the guy in front of you at the checkout line this weekend is dressed in camo and smells like urine, there’s a pretty good chance he’s a deer hunter — and not an escapee from the wacky shack.
Success before sunset (The Wichita Eagle)
For 9-year-old Brady Ashton, shooting a trophy buck was as easy as a walk in the park. Well, make that a walk in the wide-open alfalfa. That's how he and mentor Mark Dugan closed the distance on a big buck the boy shot last weekend. "We were running out of daylight and I figured we had to try something," Dugan said. "We went straight at the deer and it worked." Time spent with Dugan and ...