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Matt Wimmer with a heavy Bedford County seven-pointer

Matt Wimmer killed this great buck Saturday in Bedford County.  Here is what Wimmer had to write about the hunt:

“Based on the comments I’ve been reading over the past couple days and what I saw on Saturday, it seems like things are really starting to roll.  I shot the 7 pointer in the picture (the buck looks more like a 5 pt in the “Hero Shot” so I attached a close up for the guys who will say “…it looks like a 5 pt. to me”) at 10:30 a.m. while he was bumping a doe down the ridge; he was the third buck that I had seen over the span of two hours that was harassing a doe, and I saw two other young bucks walking single file with their noses in the air along the upwind side of a laurel thicket. (One was an 8 pointer that I couldn’t get a shot on).

I know this buck is fairly young, but because of work demands (I only have Saturdays & Thanksgiving to hunt this year) and the property I was hunting, he was a shooter in my book.”
That’s a shooter in most books, Matt. Congrats!
Mark Taylor
November 6, 2012 - 4:24 PM

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Stephen | November 6, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    Nice buck Matt.

  2. Mike | November 6, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    Good buck Matt.

    I doesn’t matter what someone else thinks. You look happy to me!

  3. Jim Basham | November 7, 2012 at 8:17 am

    Great buck in my book! Congrats!

  4. Glen Mayhew | November 7, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Great buck Matt. The trophy is in the eye of the beholder. Congrats!!

  5. Donna & Gary Justus | November 8, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Great buck!!

  6. Rodney Nipper | November 8, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Great buck. Love the dark face. Congratulations.

  7. Ralph Barton | November 9, 2012 at 5:16 am

    Great Buck Matt !
    that’s the way to do it, capitalize on your limited hunting days and get some meat in the freezer !
    Congratulations !

  8. J.R./ Hoyt Archery | November 13, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Beautiful Matt. What a great looking deer bud. Congrats on a fine trophy.

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Mark Taylor.

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.

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