snapshots

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Holly Schwers of Judith Gap, Mont., shot her first mountain lion in the Little Belt Mountains of Montana. The cat weighed 150 pounds and was 8 feet and 4 inches long.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Trent Drobnick, 28, of Saint Michael, Pa., kneels with his stepdaughter Chloe and 2 nice early season Pennsylvania greenheads.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Twelve-year-old Chandler Hillman of Phoenix, Ariz., climbed a steep mountain with her father to get within 200 yards of this buck. They waited over 2 hours for him to leave his bed, and then she killed him with her new 243. The dandy 3x3 was her first deer.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Benjamin Packard of Chandler, Ariz., took this picture on the Fourth of July last year, near Dillon, Mont. Glenn Nelson, the father of BenÂ¿Â¿Â¿s then fiancÂ¿Â¿, is the man in the backgroundÂ¿Â¿Â¿Benjamin had to pass the Â¿Â¿Â¿Montana TestÂ¿Â¿Â¿ if he wanted to marry GlennÂ¿Â¿Â¿s daughter. Despite becoming seriously ill, Benjamin toughed it out and got hitched sure enough. This trout may have helped.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Justin Farmer of Pearisburg, Va., shot this 8-point on the opening morning of the Virginia muzzleloader season last November. The buck scored 139 inches, and had been chasing a doe.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Bill Evanochko and his daugthter Mel hold two nice bass that she caught within 10 minutes of each other on a private lake near Birmingham, Ala. Both fish hit Zoom silver flukes, and weighed over 7 1Â¿Â¿Â¿2 pounds apiece.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Basil Boyd and his father Manley with BasilÂ¿Â¿Â¿s second long beard of the 2007 season. The tukey had a 10 1Â¿Â¿Â¿2-inch beard, 1 1Â¿Â¿Â¿2-inch spurs, and weighed over 22 pounds.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Mark Guindon of Indianapolis, Ind., killed this black bear, his first, with a .338 Winchester Magnum while hunting in Prince George, British Columbia, with his friend and former college roommate Rich Johnson.

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Jessica Vaughan of Collinsville, Okla., went hunting earlier this year near Henyretta, Okla., on a game preservation, and shot this pig with a .22-250. Â¿Â¿Â¿Yes, I know it looks like a show pig,Â¿Â¿Â¿ Jessica says. Â¿Â¿Â¿But it was wild.Â¿Â¿Â¿

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fieldandstream-editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Sixteen-year-old Ryan Sparks of Gearhart, Ore., caught this 400-pound halibut near Hoonah, Alaska. He had been using a circle hook baited with a chunk of pink salmon.