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...BUCK & TIM MCCARVER Heard calling ball game in the background of the Tripp tapes, scoring biggest audience ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Hunters tend to be a little defensive these days. They donate venison to homeless shelters. They shun confrontation with animal rightists--and lobby for laws to prevent activists from harassing them in the woods as they hunt. When hunters bring a buck home from the woods, they are less inclined to tie the carcass on the fender or luggage rack; they hide it under a tarp. The image of idiot hunters fueled by beer and bourbon and blazing away at anything that moves in the forest--sometimes firing from the cabs of pickups--has made many hunters sheepish. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Cedric aims his father's .44 Ruger. Hesitates. His father has always told him to wait until the deer turns, so that he can have a clear shot at the side, through the heart and lungs just behind the foreleg. The buck senses their presence. Cedric swears the buck looks right at him. His father whispers, "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Cedric squeezes the trigger. The big buck drops a mere 28 steps from them: A nine-pointer with a 14-in. spread of antlers. It is the second largest buck killed in the statewide youth hunt that kicked off the deer season last weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

This morning, Mark's wife Karolyn, who has not missed an opening day in years, was stationed up on the mountain and allowed three spike-horned bucks, each bigger than the one before, to pass unharmed. The fifth or sixth was bound to be a monster, she thought. But the trend ended with Buck 3. The guys got nothing either. No one seemed to mind, and there was much teasing of Karolyn for taking a cell phone up the mountain along with her Winchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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