Sarah Terry of Kentucky used the figure-8 technique to entice this 47-pound muskie. Field & Stream Online EditorsScotty Battin got this 17-point buck in northern Illinois. Field & Stream Online EditorsAmy Fecteau of Barre, Vermont with her first moose. Field & Stream Online EditorsVince Capra’s lab Lucky lives up to his name. Field & Stream Online EditorsA hardworking lab admires the fruits of his labor after a day spent hunting pheasants in Sackets Harbor, New York. Field & Stream Online EditorsThe rest of these photos might not have made it into our picks of the week, but check them out, because they’re still pretty cool. Here are the runners up. Field & Stream Online EditorsGarth Schmidtke hoists a monster pike he caught in October on Peerless Lake in Alberta. Field & Stream Online EditorsMark Mayle got this monster with a muzzleloader in Kansas. Field & Stream Online EditorsChris Wilmot of New Hampshire hoists two Labrador lakers he caught this June. Field & Stream Online EditorsMatt Dorschel looks at his son Brian’s third steelhead of the day, caught on the Clearwater River in Idaho. Field & Stream Online EditorsThree-year-old Jack Brady caught this 10-pound largemouth on a Mr. Twister in Brussels, Illinois. Field & Stream Online EditorsJean Miller of Marietta, Ohio shot this monster buck three years after she took up hunting. Field & Stream Online EditorsMax Schumacher struggles to hoist a 50-pound king salmon. Field & Stream Online EditorsRyan Screnar with a Montana bighorn he shot the day before the season closed. Field & Stream Online EditorsFifteen-year-old Dave Roggendorf of Iowa battled 50 m.p.h. winds to get his limit of greenheads. Field & Stream Online EditorsRobert Ballou and his grandson Jack with an antelope they shot near Saratoga, Wyoming. Field & Stream Online EditorsTyra Barrow with his first elk, taken near Butte, Montana on November 8th. Field & Stream Online EditorsJerry Bowden of Russellville, Arkansas caught this hog on an ultra-light rod using 4-pound-test line. Field & Stream Online EditorsKelly Jean Maguire and his lab Rush were successful in their first outing together in southern Minnesota. Field & Stream Online EditorsGregory Andregic of Pennsylvania got this 10-pointer with a muzzleloader in Maryland this October. Field & Stream Online EditorsNine-year-old Robert Fisher with his first buck. Field & Stream Online EditorsKevin Price caught this coyote sniffing around the ducks he had already taken on a hunt in October. Field & Stream Online EditorsLori Cotton of Lufkin, Texas killed this bobcat with her husband Travis. Field & Stream Online EditorsJonathan Isman of Rustburg, Virginia got this buck with a muzzleloader. Field & Stream Online EditorsBrian Bock of Denver, Pennsylvania shows off his Caribou. Field & Stream Online EditorsDavis caught this rainbow trout on Jacobs Fork Creek in North Carolina. Field & Stream Online EditorsDaniel Sutton of Marshall, Texas shot this 10-pointer on November 4th after reading “The 2008 Rut Calendar” in our magazine. Field & Stream Online EditorsAndrew McMinn and his friend Paul show off two nice birds they got on opening day in Ayden, North Carolina. Field & Stream Online EditorsTyler Mincey of Georgia is all smiles after taking his first deer. Field & Stream Online EditorsA moose looks on as two dogs duke it out. Field & Stream Online EditorsWill Whitney shot this 10-point buck that field dressed at 186 pounds. Field & Stream Online EditorsSalvador Cornejo of Texas shot this alligator gar that weighed 220-pounds. Field & Stream Online EditorsPete Martin caught this salmon on a fly on the Salmon River in October. Field & Stream Online EditorsSteve Marlowe of Rushville, New York took this buck down with his bow. Field & Stream Online EditorsBucky Shoemaker and his father display their take after opening day of pheasant season this year in Idaho. Field & Stream Online EditorsAlex and Justin, 12 and 13 years-old, show off their squirrels. Field & Stream Online EditorsRick Schoentrup and his first deer of the season in Curlew, Washington. Field & Stream Online EditorsPhil Lentz of Sioux Falls, South Dakota got this buffalo while hunting the bluffs of Iowa. Field & Stream Online EditorsMatt Essig of Aledo, Illinois went three years without filling his bow tag before he got this buck. Field & Stream Online EditorsMatthew Doorn caught these two king salmon in his first trip to Michigan this October. Field & Stream Online EditorsMatthew Smith got this buck while hunting with his father on his birthday. Field & Stream Online Editors
Today is the day that our experts predict will be the best of the year for tagging a buck (see our Rut Guide in the November issue). So what are you doing in the office? Go outside and shoot something, then send us a picture of your deer. In the meantime, enjoy this latest crop of photos from our reader shots contest.
