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Buck of the Week: Will County nine-pointer

By Sun-Times Wire

Cliff Kowalczyk earns Buck of the Week honors for this fine Will County buck.

BOTW appears in the illinois Hunting Report in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays during hunting season, or as long as worthy bucks come in. An extended online version appears here, usually by midnight Tuesday. Yes, cutting it close tonight.

The Plainfield man bagged his nine-point buck, which field dressed at 230 pounds, last Wednesday.

E-mail nominations for both BOTW (tales of hunters and big bucks) and BOTW: Unplugged (stories and photos of live bucks around the Chicago area) to outdoordb@sbcglobal.net.

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