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Article: Deer on candid camera.(SPORTS)(WEEKEND ATHLETE: OUTDOORS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A week ago, my friend Ron Speed Jr. laughed loudly when I suggested that every white-tailed deer in Texas is no bigger than a nanny goat.
Some might sport good-sized antlers, I said, but the rest of their bodies lack serious bulk. Then I reminded him that here in Maryland and Virginia, a buck that weighs 200 pounds or more is not unheard of and the farther north you go, the bigger the deer.
Speed, who long ago showed me how to hook monstrous peacock bass in Brazil's Uatuma River, runs Exotic Outdoor Adventures as well as his father's company, Ron Speed's Adventures Inc., both in Malakoff, Texas. The ...