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  • Game & Fish West

    DIY REALITY

    Oct 13, 2020 4 minutes
    By Tony Hansen

    It is nothing less than a true double blessing. The first: A fully mature whitetail saunters past at a mere five steps. The buck has exceptional tine length, thick bases and a swayed back. I stroke a broadhead through the deer, and it’s dead within seconds. The second: The buck falls less than a football field away from my truck on flat ground that makes for a stupid-easy deer-cart trek out.

    Trust me, it almost never happens like this—even during the rut.

    I’m a DIY diehard that spends the bulk of my deer season on public ground, and I hunted that way a long time before the advent of YouTube and the plethora of sudden DIY gurus. Don’t get

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