Talk about beginners luck, most of us spend years before taking a buck of this caliber if ever. Read on for a story that will either infuriate you or inspire you:
Original article: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20101209/SPORTS/12090311
Many hunters have to tramp through the woods for years before downing a trophy-sized buck.
It took 11-year-old Carl Starkey just one hour on the first deer hunt of his life. Carl, who attends Western Reserve Elementary School, hunted with his dad Kermit of Norwalk, and was sitting in a box blind when the deer came out of the woods about 100 yards away. It fed in a field for about 10 minutes, returned to the woods, then came out again following two does.
When it reached 30 yards, young Carl shot it behind the shoulder with a 20 gauge Mossberg Youth Combo. Within 150 yards it was down, a whopping 20-point mosshorn. That might be the deer of a lifetime for this 11 year old beginning hunter.
# Young hunters across Ohio again enjoyed success during the seventh annual Youth Deer-Gun Season Nov. 20 and 21. Hunters age 17 and under harvested 9,024 deer during the special two-day season, compared to 9,331 last year.
Counties reporting the greatest number of deer killed were Tuscarawas (434), Knox (416), and Holmes (337). In north central Ohio, our Richland County’s young hunters bagged 96, Crawford’s 95 Ashland took down 196, and Huron bagged 108.
The Division of Wildlife estimates 40,000 young hunters took to the state’s fields and forests during the two-day season.
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Dick Martin is a retired teacher who has been writing about the great outdoors in north central Ohio for more than 20 years. He can be reached at richmart@neo.rr.com.
Wow 1 hour of hunting and an eleven year old nails a 20 pointer with a mossberg shotgun.