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

Katherine Coppenger, 15, of Bartlesville, Okla., took this 7x2 in Washington County, Okla., on the first morning of gun season. She and her father Joseph had heard two bucks fighting earlier, and believe this was one of them and that he broke off two of his tines in the fight.

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

Sisters Sharon and Cher Leba hold up a nice sailfish they caught while deep-sea fishing off of Cozumel island in Mexico.

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Justin Hutchinson, 30, of Salt Lake City, Utah, with a nice bull elk that he killed on Mount Nebo in Utah. Says Justin, "My first elk and I couldn't have asked for a better 30th birthday present."

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Donal Lucas of Massena, N.Y., 53, shot this 8-point on Nov. 1, on an island while he was out hunting with his friend Pete. The buck weighed 211 1Â¿Â¿Â¿2 pounds, and had a spread of over 22 3Â¿Â¿Â¿4 inches. It missed Boone and Crockett by less than 5 points.

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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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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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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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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.