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Proud dad Jamey Brugh sent me this shot of his son Austin with his first deer, a Bedford County spike.
Jamey and Austin were hunting together in a stand when the buck walked right under them and Austin made a perfect shot with a .410 loaded with buckshot.
While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.
Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.
After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.
