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Hunting Season Opens

WAITSBURG - The Henze hunting party got its first deer of the season Monday morning.

The five men from Waitsburg and Aberdeen flushed out the 4-point white tail buck by spreading out around the brush on privately owned wheat lands north of town after walking the fields for more than a mile from the nearest road.

It was a cool dewy morning, the sun barely up to illuminate the gently sloping landscape around them. It didn't take them long to spot the buck, to make sure it was large enough to harvest and to get it in the crosshairs of their Remington rifles.

The grain-fed animal was about four ye...

 

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