By KELLY BOSTIAN Outdoors Writer on Oct 28, 2012, at 1:00 AM Updated on 10/28 at 1:08 AM
Joshua Baden, 11, of Oologah got his first deer Saturday morning, a 6-point buck that weighed 114 pounds. He hunted with this father, John, on private land off the Verdigris River near Lenapah. " I don't think he is ever going to quit smiling," John Baden said.
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Brent Nicholas, 15, of Enid holds his best deer of the several he has killed over years participating in Oklahoma's youth hunting program. Brent shot the 138-inch point buck with his .257 Weatherby Magnum after his scouting work led him to a travel corridor off a large rye field in Woods County.
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Colin Elias, 11, holds a 10-point buck he shot on family property near Bristow Wednesday. The Marquette sixth grader has been hunting with his father, Steve, "since he could walk." The buck was his first buck and his first archery kill. "He made a great 22-yard shot out of our buddy stand. It was a double-lung shot and the deer didn't go far," his father said.
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Hunter Kegin, 10, and his father Joe pose with the 8-point buck the Covington youngster shot Friday morning in Payne County. This is Hunter's third Oklahoma buck. He also turned and shot a doe "for the freezer" on the food plot about 10 minutes after dropping the buck. That's little brother Peyton, 2, inspecting his brother's kill.
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Jenna Vann, 8, shared a special moment with her father, Kevin, on the youth weekend taking her first deer in Osage County with a single-shot .223 the pair sighted in over the summer. "She studied pictures of deer endlessly and where appropriate shots would be to harvest a deer. She has sat with me during the offseason to watch hunting shows and was very excited going into this weekend," Kevin Vann said.
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Hunter Johnson, 9, holds the deer he shot Saturday evening during the Oklahoma Youth Deer Season. He hunted with his father, Brian, on a deer lease north of Pawhuska. He shot the buck at last light with his Rossi .243 youth rifle. Cousin Zach Campbell said, "We estimate the deer to have been 3 ? years old and we named him B.A. Barracus (Mr. T from the A-Team) because in all the trail cam pics we have of him he?s pushing smaller bucks around so he must?ve had a bad attitude! "
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Cassidy Rae, 8, of Erick hunted Osage County with her grandfather Patrick Hauser of Coweta during Oklahoma's Youth Deer Season and took an 8-point buck. "Cassidy is also the current Sub-Junior Black Powder Rifle Champion at Oil Capital Rod & Gun Club," Hauser said.
Luke Revard and his father, Mark, hold the solid 8-point buck Luke shot Friday evening hunting his grandfather's land in Greer County. We trailed the deer about 100 yards and found Luke had made a good double-lung shot," his father said. Luke is a seventh grader at Monte Cassino.
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Maci Stephens, 6, holds up the head of her first deer. "She is a great little girl and great hunter," said her father, Brady. "She passed her hunter safety certification this summer and killed this 162-pound, 11-point buck near Fairfax. The Collinsville Elementary School first-grader hunted with her father at a camp with five children, all of whom killed deer on the youth weekend.
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Ty Stephens poses with the 8-point buck he shot while hunting hunted with his father, uncles and grandfather at a camp with four other children in Osage County, all of whom killed deer on the youth weekend.
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Jack Jenkins, 10, of Tulsa and his father, Andrew, pose for a photo with Jack's first deer taken during the 2012 Oklahoma Youth Rifle season.
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