Browsing Archive: November, 2012

Audrey's first deer - A memory not soon forgotten

Posted by Jesse White on Wednesday, November 28, 2012, In : Deer Hunting 
My daughter, Audrey White, has been wearing an ear-to-ear grin since 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, just moments after she harvested her first deer ever – a five-point buck.



So have I and so has her grandpa.

Audrey, who turned 12 in August, has been hunting with me and my crew – which includes my dad (her grandpa), my uncle, and a longtime family friend – since she was 10. Deer hunting is a tradition in our family like no other. I've been in the woods with a rifle nearly every November si...


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Aurora man introduces his young son to deer hunting by bagging a very unique buck

Posted by Jesse White on Tuesday, November 13, 2012, In : Deer Hunting 
Hayden Meyer has a long, long, LONG deer hunting career to look forward to.

Unfortunately for the two-year-old boy he might have a hard time living up to his first season in the field!

Hayden's dad, Joe Meyer, made sure of that during the first week of the season.

The 29-year-old Aurora man, who has been hunting for more than 20 years, introduced his boy to the joys of the Minnesota whitetail season by shooting one of the most unique 11-point bucks you're ever going to see.




"I enjoy hunting becau...
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Bagging the dream buck of a lifetime is part of what makes the Minnesota deer season so special

Posted by Jesse White on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, In : Deer Hunting 
When 32-year-old Chuck Johnson of Virginia, Minn. pulled the trigger on a big deer just moments after the 2012 Minnesota Firearms Deer Season opened Nov. 3 he had know idea the end result would be bagging the buck of a lifetime.
But that's exactly what the longtime hunter did Saturday morning near Tower.

Johnson, who has been hunting for more than 20 years and spends the seasons in the woods with his dad, shot a 210-pound (field dressed) 10-pointer with a large rack, just minutes after the l...
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The View From My Stand


Jesse White A former outdoors writer and reporter for the Mesabi Daily News in Virginia, MN, and the Daily Tribune in Hibbing, MN, Jesse has been in the newspaper business for nearly 20 years. His numerous awards over the past two decades include five first-place awards from the Associated Press; two first-place National Newspaper awards; and a first-place Minnesota Newspaper Association award. He is an avid hunter and angler and enjoys guns and archery.
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