Ava Kirtley was hunting with her father and a family friend when the massive buck stepped into a clearing in front of their box blind
Author: Travis Hall
Travis Hall
Travis is Field & Stream's full-time associate editor. He covers breaking outdoor news and pressing conservation issues. Highlights Education Hall graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2012. His outdoor education began at age three in pursuit of stripper-pit panfish, and it continues to progress on a near daily basis. Experience Hall lives with his wife and two young sons in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley where he’s cutting his teeth on the finer points of elk, mule deer, and mountain grouse hunting. He grew up hunting whitetails and wild turkeys on reclaimed coal country in southern Indiana. F&S Lightening Round Favorite Place to Fish: Any fishing access site along the Bitterroot River; Favorite Critter to Hunt: Rut-crazed whitetails; Bucket List Adventure: September elk in Montana’s Big Snowy Mountains; Most Prized Piece of Gear: Savage Lightweight Hunter chambered in .308; All-Time Favorite F&S Story: “F&S Classics: The Day Bear Died,” by Hal Herring Notable Work
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Jacob Deaton shot the buck right before last light on opening day in northern Kentucky
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Dating back to the late 1800s, these are the top five typical and non-typical mule deer in the Boone & Crockett books
Groups like the Humane Society of the United States and Project Coyote are flooding Oregon’s Game Commission with form letters opposing quota increases for spring bear hunting and a newly-proposed youth hunt in the western part of the state
