
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting.
Thread the Needle Buck
The year was 1983. It was opening day of West Virginia deer firearms season. I was perched in a favorite tree in a remote area of a friend’s property between the town of Paw Paw, and the old railroad community of Magnolia, in the west end of Morgan County.
Several…





