Just an average Summer weekend…

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I’m usually alone – this time I had a friend… This is my trophy whitetail deer from 1995 – which was just about the last year I hunted deer. This guy was from Steuben County, New York, and at the time, was the 145th largest whitetail in the record books – which had been going since 1896. We have this hanging up at camp, but since the house is Winterized each Winter, I bring him home every year and take him back up. 3 years ago, while loading him into the car at the end of the Summer, I put a tool bag into the back seat and shoved one of these antlers into my right hand about an inch. Yes – he got his revenge finally, and yes, I was in fact gored by a deer that had been dead for 17 years…

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