Deer hunter’s lament: One point shy of legal

BIG-GAME HUNTNG — “Too little. Dang it!” emailed my friend Adam Lynn on Sunday evening. The photograph was the only legal shot he could take at the fork-horn mule deer buck. It summed up his experience on the opening weekend of Washington’s deer hunting seas.

In the Eastern Washington unit he was hunting, mule deer bucks must have at least three antler points on one side to be legal game for hunters.