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KIjRK peaster shows off his big buck
The Rack Was Good For Entry In Statewide Contest
Peaster gains entry into statewide
Truck-Buck contest Aug. 22
From Staff Reports
Kirk Peaster. a freshman
at Perry High School, will
seek his 15-minutes ol
lame Aug. 22 when he
attempts to win a new pick
up truck or a 4 wheeler.
Peaster is one of the 16
contestants in the annual
Georgia Outdoor News
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qualified for the event by
having the best deer, as
scored by the Boone and
Crockett system, during
one week of the 16-week
hunting season of 1998.
Peaster, the son of
Donna Hardage and Lynn
and Tammy Peaster. all ot
Perry, shot the 13-pointer
in Macon County before his
15th birthday.
He reached the competi
tion by a most unusual
route, according to Georgia
Outdoor News. The hunters
who believe they have a
chance of winning the 16
weekly contests, bring their
deer to the Georgia Wildlife
Federation Fisharama each
spring at the Georgia
National Fairgrounds.
Peaster killed his buck
during the 10th week of the
16-week season. A contes
tant from Telfair County
had a 38-point deer which
scored 248 4/8 on the
Boone and Crockett scale,
but the hunter did not take
the required polygraph test
and was ineligible to win.
The next largest ranked
deer also missed the con
test because the hunter
declined to take the poly
graph test.
A third hunter. Frank
Timmons of Ponce Inlet.
Fla., had bagged a 10
pointer in Macon County.
The deer scored 141 1/8 on
the Boone and Crockett
scale. Timmons took and
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Beamon, Dr. Rhonda Thompson. Joyce Emerson and Phyllis Ross.
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passed the polygraph test
becoming the Shoot-Out
contestant for week 10.
Timmons died after
entering the contest, allow
ing Peaster to qualify- He
met the requirements of the
rules and became the con
testant for week 10 with his
13-point buck. The rack
scored 138 6/8 on the
Boone and Crockett stan
dard.
Peaster reported he shot
the deer Nov. 21. 1999. He
was sitting in a ladder
stand on a 600-acre lease
in Macon County, looking
into an open hardwood
creek bottom filled with
white oaks.
Peaster had not killed a
deer during the season to
that point. The weather
was cold and foggy. Peaster
told Georgia Outdoor News
the weather began to lift.
He said about 8:15 a.m., he
saw movement at the creek
and spotted the large deer.
The hunter watched as
the dear disappeared and
then reappeared. Peaster
shot but missed, and then
failed to complete the clear
ing and round bolting
process because of his
excitement.
After getting the gun
ready, Peaster said he was
surprised to see the deer
still in sight. He shot again
and killed the dear.
He did not move until his
father, hunting nearby,
reached the ladder stand.
They were, Peaster said,
amazed when they found
the deer.
The buck. Peaster's sec
ond ever, was a 6x6 12-
pointer with one abnormal
point on the right beam.
The rack tallied a net score
of 138 6/8 by Boone and
Crockett.
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Buckarama offers much for local visitors Aug. 20-22
The Georgia Wildlife Feder
ation Perry Buckarama will
be held Aug. 20-22 at the
Georgia National Fair
grounds. The Buckarama sig
nals that the hunting season
is quickly approaching.
An exciting part of the
Buckarama is the Truck-
Buck Shoot-Out . This year, a
local hunter, 15-year-old Kirk
Peaster of Perry, has earned
an opportunity to try for the
Dodge truck and 4-wheeler.
(see related story, this page)
Also competing in the
shoot-out will be Hugh Green
of Houston County. He also
won a hunting contest to
become eligible to enter.
Here's the story on the
Truck-Buck Shoot-Out.
Some lucky Georgia hunter
will drive home from the Fair
grounds in a brand new pick
up truck valued at more than
$28,000. Another one will
leave with a new 4-wheeler
provided by Motions.
The truck and the 4-wheel
er are the grand prizes in the
10th Annual Truck-Buck
Shoot-Out. This is a pellet
rifle competition among 16
deer hunters who harvested
the highest scoring bucks
during the 1998-99 Georgia
hunting season.
In the Shoot-Out. the con
testants go through the
rounds in which the targets
get progressively more diffi
cult to hit. One miss leads to
dismissal from the competi
tion.
This event never fails to
draw a large crowd of specta
tors. As shooters are elimi
nated. the tension and excite
ment builds until the top
shooter claims the truck. The
second best shot wins the 4
wheeler.
Highlighting the 1999 con
test is the presence of two
young shooters. Peaster, and
12-year-old Brandon Mitchell
of Cochran. Each will try’ to
out-shoot all other shooters
to win the truck or 4-wheeler.
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Home Journal Photo by John Trussed
THE SCENT Dennis Lewis, president of the Scrape
Juice Deer Scent Co., displays one of his two Pope and
Young trophy deer taken in central Georgia. Lewis and
many other hunting product dealers will have booths at
the Buckarama at the Georgia National Fairgrounds
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Journal
Outdoors
To qualify for the shoot
out, a hunter must take the
highest scoring buck during a
week of the Georgia deer sea
son. There are 16 weeks of
deer season, and the 16
weekly winners are deter
mined bv Boone and Crockett
scores. These scores are
determined during the sum
mer Fisharama at Perry’.
The Georgia Outdoor News
Truck-Buck Shoot-Out will
take pace at 3 p.m. Aug. 22
during the Buckarama.
Local hunters will be on
hand to encourage Peaster to
win the truck.
As usual, hunters will be
able to get a look at the
newest hunting gear at the
Buckarama. They can also
listen to several interesting
programs.
One of the most anticipat
ed events is to see and hear
Milo Hanson in person, along
with his world-record deer.
With a Winchester Model
88 .308 lever-action rifle with
a Weaver K 4 scope pur
chased for $lB9 in 1970,
Hanson set out on his usual
2-week deer hunt with three
friends.
On Nov. 23. 1993. 49-vear
old Hanson shot and killed
the world's largest recorded
white-tailed deer to date on
his own property near Biggar
(population 3PO) in
Saskatchewan, Canada
The Hanson buck scored
213 5/8 by the Boone and
Crockett scoring panels and
surpassed the 1914 record
score of 206 1/8.
A native small town Canor
dian, Hanson has hunted big
game since the age of 15. As a
high school student, he
worked feeding cattle on local
ranches. After graduation, he
serviced oil pumps and oil
rigs, and then went at a co-op
lumberyard.
He met his wife, Olive at
the lumberyard. During the
fourth year of their marriage,
Olive's father passed away,
leaving Milo Hanson with a
career change. They began
operating her family's 1.200-
acre beef cattle ranch. He
converted the farm to grain
production to compete in the
farming market.
On the farm, Milo and
Olive Hanson raised their
birth son, Bradley, born in
1970, and their unofficial
adopted son. Chris.
Hanson reports the entire
family enjoys hunting. Before
the fame, Hanson and his
friends hunted large game in
the snow by a method known
as pushing bush. This
involves several people flush
ing deer to run into open
ground past standing
hunters.
Though the local wildlife
federation holds a big-buck
contest, Hanson had never
been interested in or did he
really understand the intri
cate nature of the Boone and
Crockett scoring system.
It was not until after shoot
ing the famous buck that
Hanson was introduced to
artificial deer calls, scents
and camouflage to coax
unsuspecting deer even clos
er.
The spirit of the hunt still
thrives in Hanson. In his
1995 book, World Record
Whitetail: The Hanson Buck
Story, Hanson wrote, “Quite
simply, while big racks
intrigue me, the hunt itself
Middle Georgia Diamond Club Golf Tournament set
From Staff Reports
The Middle Georgia College Diamond Club Golf Tourna
ment is scheduled for Sept. 18 at The Woods Golf Course
in Cochran.
The 27-hole, four-person scramble is limited to-the first
45 teams.
Entrance fee is SSO per person.
For more information, call The Woods at 934 0731,
Coach Craig Young at 934-3044, or Pete Cook at 934-
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Also at the 1999 Buckara
ma young hunters get the
opportunity to sign up for the
10-hour Hunter Safety
Course.
There will be a fully
accredited Hunter Safety
Course taught during the
Buckarama. Classes begin
the first night, Aug. 20, and
continue all day Aug. 21.
There is special emphasis on
the safety and use of black
powder muzzleloader
firearms.
To attend the Hunter Safe
ty Course, interested persons
must bring a social security
card. To obtain the certifica
tion, a person must attend
both days of the classes.
Pre-registration of 150 stu
dents will be held at the Geor
gia National Fairgrounds
Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. Course
hours that day wall be 5-8
p.m.. The next day, classes
will be 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Upon successful comple
tion of this course, students
of all ages will receive the cer
tificate needed to buy their
hunting license. They will
also receive a free blaze
orange hunter safety patch,
compliments of the Georgia
Wildlife Federation. Addition
al patches will be available at
the GWF show office.
Persons registered to
receive credit for the course
will be automatically admit
ted to the show free each day.
Others may sit in on the
course, space permitting, but
must purchase regular
admission tickets.
Admission to the Buckara
ma show is $6 for adults and
$3 for seniors and children
over six years of age. See you
there.
Moms: If you have a
four year old, live in
Perry and work in
Warner Robins, stop by
to talk with us!!
Enrolling now for Fall:
Free Pre-K.
Must be four by Sepil.im
Free meals. Free “before am) after” are.
Open 6:30 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
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