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Welcome to the Novemberedition of Porter's Guide toHunting and Fishing inMiddle Georgia. It is alwaysfun to see what pictures aresent that represent theappreciation of our huntingand fishing traditions in ourpart of the world. I want tothank Roche Home andGarden for donating an out-door camera for the best pic-ture of the season. The gamecamera winner is shown atthe bottom of this page.Congratulations to CoreyDriggers, the winner, andthe picture of two fine buckshe harvested in LaurensCounty. Corey, use the gamecamera and send in somemore pictures for the springedition of Porter's Guide.

Included in this edition isa useful article by local oph-thamologist and avid hunterDr. J Y Jones on what oneneeds to consider to be ableto see to shoot. Jones hastraveled the world on somegreat hunting adventuresand has shared many ofthose on these pages in thepast. This time he discussesoptions to be considered toget that clean and directshot.

Also local taxidermistTim Knight tells an enviablestory of getting two trophybucks in the same spot. Yes,lightening can strike twicein the same place and thechances were about as great

for Knight, but he beats theodds. I got a shot of adrena-line just reading this story. Ifelt like I was right there inthe woods by his stand,shaking off the adrenalinerush with him.

And, Daniel Thomasbrings an interestingaccount of the cycle of hunt-ing.

For such a young man,his knowledge and experi-ence has him aging in dogyears. He is now ready topass the love of hunting andthe outdoors to the next gen-eration.

Of course Gaye Knightwill have your taste budstingling with two new LipBust'in recipes...one forvenison meat balls andanother for venison casse-role. Once you read theseyou will be ready to turn onthe oven and get out the bis-cuits.

Enjoy the wide variety of

pictures of deer, turkey,squirrel and fish fromaround the country by folkshere in middle Georgia.With the great fall weatherwe are having, get with fam-ily and friends outdoors andenjoy our corner of theworld.

Politics and the Universityof Georgia have taken a lot ofthe Porter Boys’ time this fall,but Thanksgiving is nextweekend and they havealready asked to refill theammo box for deer, quail andduck. See you in the SpringEdition, and we will sharethe next round of adventures.Come ready too and send inyour pictures for the nextPorter’s Guide in March.

As you do, keep safetyfirst.

DuBose Porter,Porters Guide to Hunting

and Fishing in MiddleGeorgia

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the need for a distance visioncorrection of some kind seldomthink how inconvenient such arequirement is for our fellowhunters. I use glasses for nearvision, as anyone must afterage 45 or so, if their eyes arenormal and their distancevision is perfect without specta-cles. One can keep readingglasses in a pocket and usethem when that darn flashlightbulb needs changing, or what-ever other impossible nearvision task presents.

The hunter with a majorrefractive error (myopia, hyper-metropia, astigmatism, or somecombination of these) can befaced with huge obstacles in thefield. Even when using glasses,such a hunter is handicappedwhen peering through binocu-lars, even if the rubber eye-pieces are folded back to allowthe binoculars to be held closeto the glasses lenses. Spectaclesare constantly fogging up inany situation where there iscold and moisture, or simplybody heat and excitement plushigh humidity. They sometimesbreak, so a spare pair is anecessity, but such spares areusually back in camp when thebig one you’ve been seekingsteps out and it’s time to shoot.

A solution for many huntershas been contact lenses or lasersurgery, and more recently aquantum leap with permanent-ly implanted contacts placedsurgically inside the eye. Allthree approaches have definitepluses and minuses, and only acompetent eye doctor can giveindividual guidance for a spe-cific hunter. For purposes ofthis article, I only want toaddress use of conventionalcontact lenses in the field andattempt to give some guidancewhile helping hunters who

wear these devices to avoidsome pitfalls.

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practiced for over 34 years. Fewrealize that the majority of eyeinfections in people under age65 are in some way related tocontact lens wear. I routinelycounsel my patients to never,ever wear contact lensesovernight, not even the oneslabeled for 30-day use. Almostevery contact lens problem I see,including severe vision-threat-ening infection, is related tofoolishly wearing the lenseswhile sleeping. Among compli-cations related to this practiceare lost visual acuity and inabil-ity to ever wear contact lensesagain. In a few cases, heroicmeasures, including radical sur-gery, have been necessary justto save the eye when a contactlens over-wear infection occurs.Most such problems could havebeen easily prevented by simplyremoving the lenses at nightand putting them in sterile solu-tion, and then reinserting themwith clean fingers the nextmorning.

So what does this have to dowith hunters and hunting? A lot,because many hunters go onextended trips into wild areasand live temporarily, by choice,in relatively unsanitary condi-tions. Some mistakenly believethat shedding their glasses inorder to avoid the aggravationsmentioned above, and wearing“extended wear contacts” whilehunting, is the best option. Intruth, it’s playing with fire atbest and Russian roulette atworst.

This observation wasbrought home to me recently inan e-mail exchange with anoth-er hunter. Here’s what he had tosay:

“I am now 47 and my eyesare not what they used tobe. My left eye sees well close upwhile my right eye sees fairlywell at distance, but still it’s cer-tainly not good. I wear contactsfor hunting, -1.50 power in theright eye and -2.50 in the lefteye. I use the one month softvariety. I find them okay, andmost of the time I hardly noticethem, though sometimes myright eye sees poorly with them,a condition that lasts for a whileand then goes away again. Itcan be alleviated by blinking ora lot or eye drops, but this onlyhelps for a few minutes. The cor-rect vision only comes back aftera while, which can be hours, orafter a night's sleep. I have notnoticed this with the one daycontacts, but then I do not wearthose much so I probably havenot had enough experience withthem. My questions are:

1- Is there anything you cando about this temporary poorvision with contacts? Maybe I donot have the right fit?

2- I hate wearing glasses on a

hunt. What do you think of lasersurgery to set both eyes for longdistance and then wear readingglasses for the rest of your lifewhen you need them?

Give me you thoughts,please!”

At this point I was thinkingthat this individual used regu-lar contacts at least part of thetime in everyday life, and onlyswitched to the 30-day lenseswhen he was on a hunting trip.Here’s what I told him:

“Several things are happen-ing with your eyes. I hope you

never wear your contact lensesovernight, because that’s a verydangerous thing to do. Withthat said, your eyes are becom-ing less moist as you age. Thismakes contact lenses less toler-able once one enters later life,and the eyes tend to dry out, aneffect that is dramaticallyincreased when you wear con-tacts. The other thing that’shappening is known as presby-opia, or loss of focusing for near,a consequence that only comesinto play in your case when thecontacts are in place. If you did-

n’t need a distance correction,you’d certainly be in readingglasses now, and that’s the situ-ation you have when the contactlenses are in your eyes.

“Solutions: (1) Redouble yourefforts at being extremely dili-gent with sterility of your lens-es. Change them more often,too. (2) Use frequent instilla-tions of unpreserved artificialtears while wearing the lenses

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By TIM KNIGHTMost bow hunters will tell

you that having one opportuni-ty at a shooter buck during gunseason is great, especiallywhen you are in a club compet-ing with gun hunters on alease. But to have two opportu-nities in less than a week isunheard of. Well, that is exact-ly what happened to mebetween October 23 andOctober 29.

Keep in mind that last sea-son I did not have a singlechance at a shooter - not one.Saturday, Oct. 23 I had a NWwind which was perfect toapproach my spot in my LoneWolf climber and slip up a tree.I was hunting a tight bottleneck between two sloughs anda beaver dam that actually cre-ated a land bridge between thetwo sloughs. The deer eitherhad to swim or cross the landbridge built by the beavers.

The cover was very thick, Icould only shoot 18 to 20 yardsand only in a couple of direc-tions. On one hand this is agood situation because if youcan see the deer it will be closeenough to shoot. Saturday, Oct.23 was a crisp, cool morningwith the temps in the high 40sand a full moon. At 9:30 a.m. Ihad not seen a thing and wasgetting bored.

I kept telling myself to situntil noon. At 10:30 I still hadnot seen anything and thewind was starting to kick up,so now I can’t hear good either.

At 10:40 I caught movementto my right as a big doe and abutton buck trotted right up tothe base of my tree and startedjust to mill around under me.The doe actually started lick-ing on a palmetto bush that Ihad thrown some bow hunter’sfatal obsession on. As I waswatching them under me thedoe turned and faced back theway she had come and startedto bob her head and stomp herfoot, and soon the yearlingjoined in. What are they

looking at, I thought to myself,and then I heard him grunt!

Buck coming, I thought tomyself, as I realized I am stillsitting down and my bow is inmy holder. My release is nothooked up and on top of that, Ihave two deer right under me.

I grabbed my bow, hookedup my release and started eas-ing up off my climber seat inhopes the two deer under mewould not see me. I stood upwith out spooking the twounder me and as soon as I did Icould see legs coming at lessthan 25 yards.

It was too thick to see whathe was and then he steppedinto a patch of sunlight and allI could think was shooter! Inan instant he was 10 yards andin my shooting lane movingquickly. I bleated with my voiceand he froze, I settled my pinon the top of his left shoulderand hit the trigger, thinking allthe time to aim for the exitwound. I saw the nock disap-

pear in his shoulder as hewheeled around and ran backthe way he came. And to thismoment I don’t rememberdrawing my bow or even whathappened to the doe and year-ling, because when I lookeddown they were gone. I satback down and asked myself“did that just happen?” as I feltthat violent chill coming onthat every bow hunter getsafter such an adrenaline rush.I did not hear the deer fall andI sure could not see up in to thethick woods. So now I amthinking to practice what youpreach, give him at least anhour. Any time you shoot ananimal with archery gear andyou don’t hear him or see himfall, give him at least an hourbefore you start tracking. As Isat there waiting and shaking Ikept looking for my arrow andI finally saw it lying on theground just a couple of feet


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from the spot I shot the buckand it had great sign on it.

I called my boys and toldthem what had happened andmy youngest son Hunter saidhe could be there to help in alittle while. I said great, I willjust shake here in the tree tillyou get here. I did not climbdown until Hunter got to me.We took up the track after anhour and Hunter lead the way-can’t beat them young eyes!

After a track job of over 150yards with good sign I was justfixing to tell Hunter let’s givehim more time, when I toldHunter, “I smell him!” Andsure enough about 20 yardsaway in a very thick area laymy buck. After several hugsand high fives we dragged thebuck to an open spot to admirehim. Cell phones and theircameras are pretty awesome!Friends were calling me whilewe were dragging him out.

One good friend, SteveShepard said he wanted tocome help, and sure enough hedid. The pressure was off the2010 season and it was off to agreat start.

Friday the Oct. 29 was acool, crisp, breezy morning

with the temperature in thelow 40s and a partial moonalmost directly overhead atdaylight, with a north, north-west wind. It was prime pre-rut time for my area and timeto do some serious rattling andgrunting, and as always a fewsnort-wheezes.

After several series of rat-tling and grunting, no deer hadI seen and it was 8:45 a.m. Iwas hunting the same areathat I shot my first buck. It isjust a great funnel and the pre-rut was on.

I was just getting ready torattle again when I saw move-ment at about 40 yards away. Icould see a black tarsal on thebuck’s back leg so I knew it wasa buck. He was not coming myway so I grunted at him andsnort-wheezed with my voice.

I saw him stop and then heturned and came straight tome, but I could not see his rack.He stopped halfway andhooked a tree and then here hecomes, ears cupped down, hairbristled up and licking his nose.He stomped right to the base ofthe tree and stopped. He was abeautiful chocolate racked 2 ½-year-old 10-point, about 14inches wide but real shorttines. He must have stood there2-3 minutes like a statue, mov-

ing nothing but his ears likeradar and licking his nose con-stantly.

He finally lost interest,turned and walked back theway he came. So, now I amthinking I guess I killed thedominate buck in this area forhim to act like that.

The small buck had beengone almost an hour when Idecided to do another series ofgrunts, rattles and snort-wheezes. It was not long after Irattled that I saw movement

coming from the last place Isaw the small 10-point leave.So I just assumed it was thesmall 10-point coming back. Idid not even get ready and thatwas a mistake, because thatbuck stepped into an opening at30 yards and my first thoughtwas “Oh, goodness, that is notthe same deer!” My savinggrace was there was a lot ofthick cover between me andhim. I quickly grabbed my PSEand hooked up and got ready,and eased up off my seat and

drew my bow. He is 25-20-15-10 yards and

quartering to me, I don’t wanthim to walk right under me, soI bleated with my voice and hestopped at less than 10 yards. Iremember thinking “aim forthe exit wound” so that meantshooting him right in the shoul-der so the arrow would exitbehind the opposite leg.

I would never recommend ashoulder shot with any type ofexpandable broadhead, but atrocar tipped muzzy is no prob-lem from a bow shooting 315fps at 58 pounds. I hit the trig-ger and watched the Archersflame lighted nock disappearright in the center of the buck’sshoulder.

He wheeled and bolted awayand I could see the arrow andlighted nock sticking in theground. Good hit I thought tomyself, as the ghost of Elvisstarted to invade my right legand it migrated north. As I satback down to try to gather mythoughts I heard the buckcrash and fall. Wow! I can’t stopshaking. This is crazy!!!

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Josh Warnock, of EastDublin, got this doe openingevening of deer season thisyear. He was hoping for abuck, which he tried to makethis doe a spike with his twofingers sticking up behind thedoe's head. He was hunting onfamily land in Laurens County.

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Marsha Warnock got this 8point buck opening morning.He came out chasing a doeand fighting with two littlebucks but lost.

Jerry Garnto,dogs Bucky andRocco look on asToby Alligoodshows off thisfine 8-pointershot in LaurensCounty Nov. 6.The buckweighed 170pounds and hadan 18-inchspread.

Over the past several yearsI have shared hunting campwith a variety of hunters, andI began to notice that with ageor experience a deer hunter’spriorities begin to change. It’san interesting circle of hunt-ing life that each hunterseems to go through. When aperson is introduced to hunt-ing, hopefully at a young age,all they want to do is see deerand shoot. It doesn’t matter ifit’s a doe or a spike; the thrillof harvesting their first deeris sufficient. All they need isa rifle that will reach out andtouch something and a friend,or relative to take them. I willnever forget my first deer. MyUncle Claude Vines took meto his land, put me in boxblind overlooking a food plot,

and told me to shoot whatevermade me happy. Right afterdaybreak a small 6-pointstepped out and took has lastbite of clover. Now, UncleClaude loves growing bigbucks and understands theimportance of letting deerreach maturity, but on thatday it was more important tohim to see me take my firstdeer, and believe me I was oncloud nine.

As a hunter progresses inage or experience, he or shebegins to let young deer walkand becomes a trophy hunter.It becomes his goal to tag thebiggest buck in the woods andbegins to get wrapped up inhow many inches of antler hecan put in the back of thetruck. It’s at this stage when

all the gadgets and tools arebought to obtain any advan-tage in the pursuit of a trophy.He is always trying to harvesta bigger buck than last year.“That tall tined 8-pointer wasgreat, but this year ole droptine has met his match.” Atthis point the rifle may betraded in for a bow, makingthe hunt more challengingand rewarding. This is thejuncture where I find myself,and my wife is “thrilled”about the prospect of having atrophy buck woven into herdécor.

Hopefully after having afew beach pictures replacedby shoulder mounts thehunter becomes more selfless.At this stage, the hunterbecomes more involved withconservation and managingwildlife for future genera-tions. He or she gets more joyout of watching others, espe-cially first timers harvest adeer that they worked so hardto grow. The hunter realizesthe importance of introducingothers to the outdoors andtakes joy in doing so. Muchlike my Uncle Claude enjoyedseeing me take my first deer, Ilook forward to one day takingmy children as well as intro-ducing others to this greatsport, and thereby continuingthe circle of hunting life.


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Lightning struck twice forSteve Graham on Halloweenthis year. Graham was able tokill a 10-pointer with a 20-inchspread and a 7-pointer with a 19-inch spread on the same day.

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Tanner Evans, 12, of Rentz,killed his first buck ever onopening morning of the 2010season with a broken rightwrist, shooting left handed!Way to go, Tanner!

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tain you don’t have any cataractbefore proceeding with this. It’sa good idea to get a consultationfrom an eye surgeon who doesn’tdo LASIK surgery first, becauseit’s a sad fact that some doctorswho do LASIK will operate onanyone they can get to hold stilland recline face up. If a non-LASIK ophthalmologist agreesit’s a good operation for you, youcan consider it. There are sever-al options, one of which is to doyour dominant eye (your shoot-ing eye) and leave the otherunchanged so you can readwithout glasses. You might trywearing just one contact lens (inyou I’d recommend you put thelens in the right eye) for a whileto see how you function in thissituation. Ideally you’d doLASIK on the right eye if you’reright-handed (which meansyou’re usually right-eye domi-nant and look through the riflescope with this eye). In yourcase, you’d also be permanentlyable to read with the left eyewithout glasses, as it’s morenear-sighted than the right andis essentially focused at normalreading distance without correc-tion. If you don’t tolerate this“monovision” well while wear-ing contact lenses, you couldhave LASIK on both eyes, afterwhich you’d need glasses fornear vision for the rest of yourlife, as you’ve already noted.Also, if there’s any cataract andyour eye doctor foreseescataract surgery within tenyears, I’d recommend doingwhatever you can to stay awayfrom LASIK, because havinghad LASIK makes calculatingthe lens implant power at thetime of cataract surgery infi-

nitely more difficult and lesspredictable. If you haven’t hadLASIK, the cataract surgeryitself can be done so you haveboth distance and near visionwithout correction, in mostcases, but it’s much less pre-dictable if you’ve had LASIK.Another choice is to wear read-ing glasses over your contactsfor better near vision, assumingyou can work out the intoler-ance issues.”

I didn’t know the full story atthis point, and I certainly didn’trealize that this man was wear-ing the lenses only when onextended hunts, and at thosetimes he wore them for indefi-nite periods without everremoving them. Intolerance is aproblem under the best of cir-cumstances as contact lenswearers increase in age, but intypical field conditions suchintermittent wear is truly scary.I became more fully informedwhen the following e-mailarrived:

“Yes, I do wear contacts forperiods of 10 to 15 days duringhunting. These are the soft "30-day contacts" and it is exactlywith those contacts that I tendto have the problems Idescribed. I wear the perma-nent ones because I feel there istoo much dust and my handsare not clean enough duringhunting to change them in andout each day. I also do not thinkgetting them in and out wouldbe easy to do in a tent. I do notsee many options if you do notwant to wear glasses. It seemsto me that I do not have theseproblems with the one day con-tacts, though I seldom wearthese. Do you think thoseunpreserved tears would makeme do better with my 30-day

contacts? I need nothing in theway of contact lenses or glassesin order to read, but I do see bet-ter driving my car with myglasses, and I need them atnight for sure. I am not con-vinced about the LASIK deal, soI will take your advice on it. Andyes, when I wear the contacts Ido need to wear reading glass-es.”

Now a few things came intofocus for me at this point. Ireplied with the following:

“I’d strongly discouragewearing your contacts for morethan a day at a time, even whenhunting in dirty conditions,because even the 30-day onesare extremely likely to cause amajor eye infection when wornis such a manner. The likelihoodof a vision- or eye-threateninginfection when living in a typi-cal remote hunting situation ismultiplied several fold, too.Adding to the problem is thefact your eyes aren’t alreadyadjusted to contact lens wearwhen you put the lenses in forthe hunt, since you don’t wearthem routinely when you aren’thunting. Your symptoms areprobably over-wear symptoms,which take the form of irritationand are caused not only by dry-ness of the eye surface plus irri-tants in the air, but also byincessant bacterial activity justshort of actual infection—you’retreading on thin ice!

My suggestion: Take sterile

contact lens solution with youwhen you hunt, along with acouple of containers of the ster-ile, skin-safe wipes that areavailable at any discount storeor pharmacy. The brand Ialways take, just to wash myhands or even take a spongebath, is “Wet Ones” by Playtex,which come in a cylindrical con-tainer with a red or yellow top.Be sure to purchase the kindthat are safe for use on the skinand not the kind meant forcleaning the kitchen countertop. You should also have asmall mirror for use in puttingthe lenses in. Use the wipes towash your hands and your facewell, especially around youreyes, before taking out the lens-es and before putting them backin. Also, wash your contact lenscase with these wipes, and dry itwell before putting in new solu-tion. I usually take two cylin-ders of these wipes with me on ahunt, even though I don’t wearcontacts. They’re just a layer ofsanitary living between me andwhatever might be lurkingaround camp. Such an approachis especially prudent in the caseof a hunter who wears contactlenses. Unpreserved tears willstill help, but absolutely don’tuse them to avoid taking out thelenses every day when you’reback in camp. The only situa-tion when you’d leave the lensesin your eyes would be if you gotstuck out overnight far from

your normal supplies.Otherwise, never, ever leaveyour contacts in overnight, andyou’ll almost certainly saveyourself a lot of pain and grief.”

I offered this final bit ofadvice, which could apply tomany contact lens wearers:

“If hunting trips with ill-advised long-time wear are theonly time your contacts botheryou, I wouldn’t have LASIK yet.Just do as I say, be sanitary,take the lenses out every night,and you’ll safely negotiatethrough life indefinitely, morethan likely. If you ultimatelydecide you might have a LASIKprocedure, follow the principlesI told you earlier, and you’llprobably like the outcome. I sel-dom recommend it for anyonedoing well with contacts,though, and it seems that with alittle adjustment in the wayyou’re using your lenses onhunting trips, you’ll do fine.”

If contact lens wearers whohunt would follow the principlesI’ve outlined above, especiallywith regard to wearing habitsand wearing time, as well as san-itary principles, there would bequite a number who would avoida ruined outing (and very possi-bly a ruined eye) related to an eyeinfection. It’s not only commonsense, it’s smart and you’ll be abetter hunter. If you don’t have tobattle your own body while you’rehunting, you can concentrate onthe task at hand, have a higherdegree of success, and enjoy itinfinitely more as well.

— J.Y. Jones is a Dublin oph-thalmologist who is also a hunterand a writer with some 350 arti-cles and ten books to his credit -Visit his web site atwww.jyjones.com .

JonesContinued from Page 5 “The hunter with a major refractive error

(myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, or somecombination of these) can be faced with huge

obstacles in the field.”

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Jace Kennedy with his fine10 point Laurens County buck.Craig Chamblee shows off

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Ashley Burch with a fineLaurens County 7 point buck.

Butch Freeman and muledeer killed at Knez DivideRanch in Colorado, Oct. 2010.

Eleven-year-old MadisonTurner (left) of WashingtonCounty bagged her first deer,a fine Laurens County 8 pointwhile hunting with her father,Charles Turner, at OrrSwamp.

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Jake Walker hunting withhis dad, Barry Walker on 11-03 took this 10 point from 165yards with his .243.

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Opening Day of the 2010turkey season yielded fiveturkeys for John Ballard andDusty Williams. All of theturkeys were killed before 8a.m., and had beard lengthranging from 9 3/4" to 10 3/4"and were all called in on ahandmade call by Chad Hett.

(Above): Darrell Edge withproud guide "Cash" with anice Tom taken April 19, 2010

Josh Warnock got him amess of squirrels earlier thisyear while hunting. Josh said,"The best thing about thesesquirrels was his grannycooking them with grits,gravy and biscuits.

bow hunter. I called my son Josh at the

shop and said in a tremblingvoice, “I juusssssstttagggeeeeddd ouuuutttt.” Itwas not long before my otherson called and said “You shotanother one? “Me and my boss(Shawn McGowan) are com-ing to help you and Josh iscoming to.” I did not wait longto get down on this onebecause I know I heard himfall.

After tracking only a fewyards I could see my buck lay-ing there after going about 50yards. I stood over him forquite some time and justadmired his tine length.

What a beautiful buck! Iwent back to my tree andremoved my Lone Wolfclimber and took all my stuff

to the truck, and waited forthe guys at the truck.

After a long walk way backto the deer, it was decidedthat dragging was not a goodoption and a four wheelerwould be better. Shawnasked, “How did you find thisspot way back here?”

And I answered the bestway I knew how. “You knowsuccess comes before workonly in the dictionary.” Whata great season to be able totake two big bucks in oneweek with archery equip-ment. I often think aboutthat famous line in the movieForrest Gump when Forrestasked his mother “Mama,what’s my destiny?” I think ina lot of ways my love of thegreat outdoors is definitelypart of mine. Who said light-ning never strikes twice inthe same place?


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KnightAdam Bailey shot this 9 point buck on Nov. 1 in Laurens

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Makala Braddock is proud of this 5-point buck her daddyJimmy got earlier this week. They were hunting on family landin Montgomery County.

Chris Braddock shot this12-point buck on privateproperty on Oct. 25.


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