A really big buck from Cook County: The measure of Buck of the Week

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Mike Shine arrowed this buck Friday in Cook County. It had 11 points with two small stickers.

‘‘I dropped him off at the processor, who is also the taxidermist, and he green-scored him around 174,’’ Shine emailed.

BOTW, the celebration of good deer stories and big bucks around Chicago outdoors, runs Wednesdays on the Sun-Times’ outdoors page as warranted. Send nominations by Facebook (Dale Bowman), Twitter (@BowmanOutside) or email (straycasts@sbcglobal.net).


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