January 10, 2007The Ironman
This 7-point buck was Lazenby's second buck of the year, which started with a crossbow-killed double drop tine monster featured in this blog a couple months ago. Hunting the rugged North Mountain area near Catawba, he also killed a couple of does, and also took a bear with his crossbow. That number of tags he punched isn't what I really noticed. In Lazenby's recent e-mail the Salem resident said he hunted all but six days since the archery opener on the first Saturday in October.. By my rough calculations that's about 70 hunting days. Seventy days! It wasn't like he was out all day every day. He blamed having to work late for keeping him out of the woods on a couple of those days he missed. Even if some of those 70 days were just quick after-work hunts, that's some serious dedication. In fact, maybe dedication is too mild a word for it.
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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. .....Advertisement.....
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