Syracuse.com - Three women shot monster bucks in CNY so far this fall

[HuntingNY-News]

Julie Parker, of Oswego and Jessica Murphy, of West Monroe emailed me photos of 12-pointers that they shot. Dawn Duger Rice sent in a photo of her 11-point buck.

Submitted photoJulie's buck.

With the deer hunting season in full swing, I received several eye-opening photos this week of deer taken by female hunters in Central New York.

Julie Parker, of Oswego, and Jessica Murphy, of West Monroe, emailed me photos of 12-pointers that they shot. Dawn Duger Rice sent in a photo of her 11-point buck.

- Parker shot her big buck opening day on private land in western Oswego County. She got him with her 30 30 Marlin rifle.

“He field dressed out at 215 pounds,” she said, adding its live weight was 255 pounds and it was weighed on a “Cabela’s Big Buck Scale” that she and her husband own.

“It was so thick in there he didn’t see me initially, and I didn’t see him until he was about 20 yards away,” she said. “It was one of those deals where I was in the right spot at the right time. I was sitting on a rock, leaning up against a tree stump at the time.”

Parker, who has hunted for more than 20 years, said she’s shot seven bucks, but said this is her biggest.

She said she was hunting by herself when she shot her most recent one.

Submitted photoDawn's buck.

- Duger Rice included a short narrative along with her photo describing why she hunts.

She said her father took her hunting as a young girl. She said she was in a tree stand and decided it was just too boring. “I thought who would sit out here in the woods and freeze to death waiting for a deer to shoot? That was the last time I went hunting for some time.”

Then on Oct. 11, 1991 she got into a car crash while trying to avoid a deer in the middle of the road. She went into a skid and hit a tree head on, suffering a host of bruises, a broken nose and laceration next to her right eye.

“I realized that they have hunting season for a reason... too many starve, get hit in the road... and yes, cause accidents,” she said.

At age 22, she took a hunter safety course and started hunting again at age 23, using her grandfather’s “’Sweet 16’ Browning semi-automatic.”

That first season out, she harvested a button buck. Since then, she’s shot 11 deer, including a four-point and a six-point buck, she said.

She harvested the 11-pointer on opening day while hunting with her husband in Baldwinsville.

“And I’m still hunting with that Browning ‘Sweet 16’,” she said.

- Murphy wrote me: “This is my first year hunting, my first deer and I just want to let other girls out there to know us girls can hunt too.”

Murphy shot her trophy in Parish only 20 minutes into the hunt on Nov. 12 with her husband. She dropped it at 120 yards with her .222 caliber rifle.

“And yes, he dropped right there,” she said. “The deer weighed 165 pounds after it was field dressed.”

Submitted photoJessica's buck

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[Four Season Whitetail's]

Great looking buck's!!! The does are nothing to sneeze at either!!! Congrats!!!!

[rong]

very cool,makes for good chat around the dinner table,until they bust on ya about mine was bigger,,,,lol congrats to them