This excerpt from a story in the Springfield News-Leader I found astonishing: Twenty minutes before sunset, (Curtis Russell) spotted the deer among a group of does and one small buck. The bigger whitetail used its antlers to keep the smaller male at a distance. "I did a 50-yard belly crawl to cut the distance and got to within 175 yards," Russell said. "I was using a Remington 700 .30-06, and when I took the shot it was a clean hit." Now for the biggest surprise in Russell's 26 years of deer hunting: The buck wasn't a buck at all. It was a freak of nature, a doe sporting a huge set of antlers. Read the rest of the story here. (Photos: [...]

From Fox6now.com: A photo on the Erie Catholic Diocese’s Facebook page is attracting a lot of attention. It’s been viewed more than a million times. Sister John Paul Bauer, a teacher at Elk County Catholic High School in St. Mary’s, PA shot the 10-point buck. Sister John Paul says she’s amazed at the attention she’s gotten. “In St. Marys, this is what you do. You go hunting. Everybody goes hunting — the coach, myself, the students,” Bauer said. As the story goes, Sister John Paul prayed the Rosary as she waited in her tree stand. About 3 hours later, some does appeared, followed by 2 bucks. Sister John Paul shot the larger one, a 10-pointer. Blue collar, white collar, men, women, [...]

This post from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Facebook makes me proud to be a Virginian, a Christian and a deer hunter. Clyde Roberts, you are a great man and an inspiration to all of us: 102 year-old Clyde Roberts made the 20-foot climb to his Bedford County treestand platform. About 4:30 p.m. a buck appeared along the woodline and began working a scrape. One of America's oldest - and perhaps the oldest - active hunters touched off the shot. The buck bounded away but fell after less than 40 yards. The following week, Mr. Roberts dropped a mature doe at 144 yards with a perfectly placed shot with his .270. Clyde's hearing may not be the best but [...]