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Deer, elk, caribou: A 2012 season wrap
Published: 1/20/2013 2:37 PM
Last Modified: 1/20/2013 3:46 PM


Eighth-grader Caleb Nero, 13, took this 12-point buck on his first deer hunt during rifle season on his uncle's private land in Creek County. Courtesy


Brady Born of Tulsa with Ferris Neal, right, and a 151-inch buck killed in Osage County during muzzleloader season. BRADY BORN/Courtesy


Jeff Carson shared this photo of his girlfriend Kristi Criess, on her first muzzleloader hunt. The Craig County buck was an 11 pointer (8 X 3) and weighed 200 pounds. JEFF CARSON/Courtesy


Kevin Boggs of Bixby, connected on this 195-pound 10-point buck while hunting the Cooper Wildlife Management Area Nov. 24. He used a grunt call, a doe ran straight toward him, he prepared his Winchester 7 mm Mag in case a buck followed and to his surprise got the shot. The public-land buck green scored 152 inches. SUEANNE WINN/Courtesy


Brady Born of Tulsa dropped this nice Northeast Missouri buck on Nov. 4. It green-scored 170 1/8 inches. BRADY BORN/Courtesy


Gene Satterwhite sent this photo via e-mail with a straightforward note about the buck, saying it was a large one that he killed during the rifle season and "I just wanted to share." GENE SATTERWHITE/Courtesy


Tulsa hunter Greg Brownlee holds the buck he shot while hunting family land in central Oklahoma Nov. 20. "Gross score was 182 1/8," he wrote in an e-mail. "I've had this deer on camera since 2008 and have his sheds from 2009. Based on the photos I have and his jawbone analysis, this deer was either 8.5 or 9.5 years old." JOSH NEIL PHOTOGRAPHY/Courtesy


David and Drew Veitch shared a "bucket list" guided Alaska hunt at the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, hunting the western Arctic Caribou Herd on their annual migration from their calving grounds north to their wintering grounds on the Seward Pennisula. The pair killed four trophy bulls on the five-day hunt. They have hunted together every year for 22 years. DAVID VEITCH/Courtesy





Jason Turner of Skiatook arrowed this fine heavy-antlered buck in late November less than 10 miles from downtown Tulsa. The exact location is a well-kept secret. "The rest is one of my greatest hunting experiences," Turner said. JASON TURNER/Courtesy


Luke Pettigrew with his "Heavenly Dream" buck killed in Creek County this season. The antlers measured 185 3/8th inches. Read more about in my column of Nov. 11. LUKE PETTIGREW/Courtesy


Nate McCollum of Stillwater holds his lucky horseshoe and the buck his hunting partners dubbed "Crown Royal," that he shot in Pittsburgh County Nov. 18. The buck's antlers green scored at 193 inches. Read about this deer in my Nov 27 column. STEVE DANLEY/Courtesy


Tulsa hunter Greg Brownlee holds the buck he shot while hunting family land in central Oklahoma Nov. 20. "Gross score was 182 1/8," he wrote in an e-mail. "I've had this deer on camera since 2008 and have his sheds from 2009. Based on the photos I have and his jawbone analysis, this deer was either 8.5 or 9.5 years old." JOSH NEIL PHOTOGRAPHY/Courtesy


Seth Stephens, 13, an eighth grader at Sequoyah Middle School holds his ninth, and largest, deer so far. He downed the 12-point buck in Rush Springs during the rifle season. MELISSA ENGEL/Courtesy


Brady Stephens of Tulsa killed this buck the weekend of Nov. 10 in Missouri. The buck green-scored 176 inches with an 11-inch drop tine. Stephens said he had thousands of trail cam pics of the buck, which he watched for four years. BRADY STEPHENS/Courtesy


After a client had to back out, longtime Tulsa hunting services owner Jeff Neal stepped in on a Utah elk hunt in the Panguitch Lake area with guides Chris and Shaun Robb, who he has worked with for decades. Neal emphasized this is not a high-fence hunt area. "The Robb boys are guys I send my clients with if a hunter is looking for a gigantic trophy," he said. JEFF NEAL/Courtesy


Max Tankersley, 13, brought down a 13-point buck on his grandparents land in the Locust Grove area. The deer was his third of the season. Max loves deer hunting and started early, with an 11-point buck when he was just 10 years old. RICHARD TANKERSLEY/Courtesy


Justin Jackson said he had this buck chasing a "hot doe" 50 yards away right at sunrise during muzzle loader season but there was not enough camera light. An hour later she came back, "end of story." he said. JUSTIN JACKSON/Courtesy


Mark Enix dropped this Delaware County buck early in the rifle season. The antlers had 18 points and the buck weighed 170 pounds field dressed. Rough gross score on the antlers was over 180 inches. MARK ENIX/Courtesy


Tim Wilson said he was fortunate at the age of 61 to harvest a nice 6 X 5 bull elk at the beautiful Timbers at Chama Ranch outside Chama, NM. "I hunted with my son Mike Wilson, in the pic with me, and four other Tulsans, two fathers and their sons," he said. TIM WILSON/Courtesy


Lifelong hunter Don Workman, 73, killed the largest buck of his time hunting family property in Latimer County. The buck was killed just after daylight from Don's elevated box blind overlooking a food plot. He was shooting a Remington 760 pump in 30.06 loaded with Remington 180-grain factory ammo. He has owned and hunted the land since 1984. There have been many fine deer killed on this 80 acres over the past 28 years, but this one is by far the largest, said his step-son Perry W. Newman. PERRY W. NEWMAN/Courtesy


Still one of my favorite antler photos of the season, 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. BRADY STEPHENS/Courtesy


And finally the one photo I messed up. Zach, here's your deer. I thought had information from the e-mail pasted into the photo caption area before I cleaned out the e-mail account that week. I just kept waiting for someone to resend an e-mail asking if I planned to print it but, no luck. If you know who this young hunter is, please let me know!

At the end of deer season always there are some reader-submitted photos that just didn't make it into the paper over the course of the season.
Here are a few of those, a few favorites and even one that remained a mystery.



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Kelly Bostian is an Iowa boy who developed a knack for writing about the outdoors as a college kid - way back when wild turkeys were scarce - at Iowa State University. He comes to Oklahoma by way of Alaska, where he worked 23 years as outdoor editor and later managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He comes to Green Country with two beautiful daughters, an extraordinarily tolerant wife, and an 11-year-old female black Labrador retriever named Tag, who knows she's actually the brains behind everything that Kelly does.

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