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Bo Russell poses with his buck. (Courtesy Bo Russell)
By Steve Rogers, OutdoorChannel.com
No one can say Bo Russell didn’t put in the work for his monster deer.
He sweated, fretted, worked, worried and grieved over the buck for more than three years. Elation and relief finally arrived on Nov. 8, 2012, when he dropped the deer on his hunting plot less than 10 miles from his home in Sperry, Iowa, in the southeast corner of the state.
For his efforts, Russell’s deer earned the nation’s highest score (239.36) in the Adult Bow Nontypical Division of the Outdoor Channel National Deer Contest powered by BuckScore, the nation’s first whitetail deer scoring and photography competition.
The contest ended Jan. 31, but hundreds of examples of the...