Smokey was a relaxed deer that wasn’t afraid to move in daylight, i think that was partly due to his personality, but also because of the way I hunt my farm. I basically hunt only the fringes under perfect conditions. I give the center of the farm to the deer. So they don’t feel a lot of pressure.

Don Higgins

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I had a dream to raise and hunt a 200-inch buck on my home farm, i’d watched some really nice bucks here over the years, but Smokey — who I’d known about since he was 2-1/2 years old — was the only buck who had that potential.