Outdoor Column: Deer season in the Heartland

Thursday, October 17, 2013

With Missouri and Tennessee's archery season open, and youth season just a few weeks away (Oct. 26-27 in TN and Nov. 2-3 in MO), now seems like a good time to focus on backstraps, I mean deer! While many of us in the heartland pursue a variety of fish and game, and get excited as each season commences, there is nothing quite like whitetail deer hunting. The largest of wild game in Missouri and Tennessee (Elk doesn't count, yet!) draws thousands of hunters to the woods each year in hopes of bagging a trophy buck. Even the meat hunters who are only concerned with filling their freezer would be lying if they said the thought of a monster rack lumbering through the woods didn't cross their minds in the pre-dawn hours of a hunt.

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