Howard Lake hunter's luck changes big time in bagging 36-point buck near Waverly

Sitting in a lawn chair just before dusk Friday with his 20-gauge Winchester shotgun, Jim Wackler heard the buck coming “like a freight train” before he saw tips from its massive 36-point rack peeking above the field.

“All that dry corn, it was just a’ rattling,” Wackler said Tuesday. “He stuck his head out, looked around a bit and started trotting.”

Wackler, a lifelong hunter who eats what he catches — from squirrel and rabbit to pheasant, goose, duck and bear — hadn’t had much luck this year until he headed out late Friday afternoon from his home in Howard Lake to the farm near Waverly where his daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and Mike Young, live.

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