This group has been hunting WMAs for four decades, and they’ve mastered the skills to put some really nice bucks on the wall. More importantly, they have an absolute blast while they’re doing it.
Users JD Man and Buckdown earned LouisianaSportsman.com prize packages today (Dec. 6) for winning the November installments of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail contests.
Each winner moves on to the final voting session to be held in February to determine the overall contest winners.
In the Nikon Deer of the Year Contest, JD Man (known to family as Ben Blount) handily beat out the competition with a photo of his son Mason’s first buck – a fine 185-pound 8-point killed in Livingston Parish.
“Mason was about to take a doe when this buck came out a few minutes before dusk,” Ben Blount wrote in his entry. “He took his time and placed a perfect shot through the heart. The deer ran about 60 yards away and dropped.
“Go Mason!”
The image of a proud Mason Blount earned 76 percent of the votes cast.
Slade Landry (aka “Sladel”) ended the monthly contest in second place with 20 percent of the vote, while Dexter McFarland (or “3-M Camper”) placed third with the remaining 4 percent of total votes cast.
The voting was much closer in the Trail Cam Contest, but user Josh Harrell (or “Buckdown” as he’s known on the forum) managed the win with 50 percent of the total votes cast for his “Diving in the Pile” photo showing a big velvet buck leaping a fence to get to a pile of corn and rice bran.
Robert Sojka (who uses his real name on the forum) took second with “Feed me,” showing a big buck apparently waiting for a feeder to provide some corn. Sojka’s photo earned 38 percent of the votes.
“8 pt with extra trash” by Charlie Trahan (aka “Charlie T”) ended the monthly competition in third with 12 percent of the vote.
The contests continue through the end of the deer season, with monthly voting sessions determining winners. At the end of the contests, all monthly winners will be eligible for the final voting sessions in which overall winners will be chosen.
Anyone can enter photos, but only registered LouisianaSportsman.com users are eligible for the voting sessions.
