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Richard P. Smith inducted into the
Michigan Outdoor Hall of Fame
During 2025, Richard P. Smith was inducted into the Michigan Outdoor Hall of Fame administered by the Michigan Outdoor Writers Association (MOWA) and housed at the Webber Wildlife Center next to Jay’s Sporting Goods in Clare. The photo shows MOWA president Drew YoungeDyke presenting Richard with the Hall of Fame Award at a MOWA meeting at Treetops Resort in Gaylord during May.
WZMQ 19 News, Marquette, MI
An episode of Discovering that aired on August 18, 2025
is about Richard’s induction into
the Michigan Outdoor Hall of Fame.
The link to that episode is:
https://tinyurl.com/RichardPSmith
See some of
Richard’s GREAT Deer & Bear Video
including Albinos, Nursing Fawns, Bucks Rubbing Antlers, Fighting, and Losing Antlers
If you are interested in ordering the latest deer hunting book written by veteran Michigan outdoor writer Richard P. Smith from Marquette, who was inducted into the Michigan Outdoor Hall of Fame during 2025, you can do so now before it’s published and save some money. Book 9 of Great Michigan Deer Tales will be published later this year and will cost $19 postpaid then. The prepublication price is $15.
Book 9 continues the legacy created by the previous 8 books in the series with a whole new collection of some of the state’s greatest deer tales that primarily focus on the stories behind some of the biggest bucks bagged by hunters. The first chapter in the new book, for instance, highlights some of the latest information about the highest scoring typical-antlered buck known taken by a bowhunter in North America, which is a 12-pointer scoring 216 5/8 that Mitch Rompola from Traverse City arrowed on November 13, 1998.
There’s also a chapter about a UP buck in the 1950s that grew a nontypical 43-point rack that scores more than 300. Another chapter is about a boy from Ottawa County that broke a 34-year-old record with a 20-pointer he got during 2023. More chapters are about booners from Berrien, Genesee, Ingham, Lapeer and St. Joseph Counties. Trophy bucks from the northern Lower Peninsula besides the Rompola Buck are covered, too, along with plenty from the UP.
If you liked any of the previous books in the Great Michigan Deer Tales Series, you are sure to like the one being printed this year. If you haven’t read any of these popular deer hunting books yet, now is a good time to start. The reason the books are so popular is they celebrate Michigan’s proud history and tradition of deer hunting.
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Book 7 – Great Michigan Deer Tales
$18.00
Book 7 of Great Michigan Deer Tales continues the tradition started in 1994 with Book 1 in the series of providing detailed information about how, where, when and by whom the state’s biggest bucks were bagged. The chapters in the newest book were carefully selected to be both entertaining and instructional just like those in the other books in the series. There’s at least one lesson that can be learned and applied to anyone’s deer hunting in each chapter and some chapters are loaded with lessons about Michigan deer hunting.
You will find the stories behind 12 state record bucks along with other notable kills made with bow and arrow (both vertical and horizontal bows), muzzleloader, shotgun, rifle and handgun from across the state. One of the chapters is about the first albino buck to make it into state records and why white deer are legal for hunters to shoot. Others are about the state’s biggest 6-pointers, UP bucks that lived to be 8 ½, a father and daughter who bagged four trophy bucks between them during one season, a UP hunter who bagged more than 100 deer and much more.
Tales include:
State Record Typical Bow Buck
Crossbow Records Keep Changing
Michigan’s Biggest 6-pointers
State Record Handgun Buck
A Muzzleloader Buck With 4 Drop Tines
Lucky UP Buck That Made It To 8 ½
Michigan’s Toy Buck
Father/Daughter Dream Hunt
Record Bucks Bagged by Women
UP Hunter Who Shot More Than 100 Deer
Hunter Who Scores Big After Not Filling A Tag For More Than 20 Years
How Preseason Scouting Pays Off
Benefits of Being A Multiple Season Hunter
UP Buck That Traveled 30 Miles
All prices are based on shipping to U.S. addresses. Other countries please email to request shipping charges. Thank You!
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Great Michigan Deer Tales Sets.
If you are interested in Big Bucks these books are for you!
Each book has completely different stories.
Choose how many books you want in the set and save. If you already have a few of the books in the set, complete it by ordering the ones you don’t already own. The more books you get the cheaper they are per book. Get 2 for $ 28, 3 for $40, 4 for $50, 5 for $60, 6 for $72,7 for $82, and all 8 for $92.
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