2025 Whitetail Season Week I

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Buck of the Week

160 inches, eight years old 281 pound Saskatchewan beauty.

Week I, muzzleloader week at Chaparral Hunting Adventures, was a great success. We were able to harvest a very good mature Whitetail.  Congratulations to Randy Sain!

As you can see with the trail cam pictures below, we were, and will be, hunting more like this buck in the coming weeks.

Trail Cam Gallery

These are all deer we will be actively hunting over the coming weeks.

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Hunting with a Whitetail Addict

  • Your Outfitter – Greg Lavoie

Here is my story regarding the deer I called “Coke”.

170 1/8″, 9 years old – 270 lbs

I was able to sit a few afternoons with my muzzleloader for a deer that we’ve had on camera for a couple years now. He is living proof if you “let them go, they will grow”! After pulling the jaw on this magnificent Whitetail, he is without a doubt nine years old. Also goes to show, we need to let them get old and mature so that they have a chance to grow into a mature giant Whitetail. It was my fourth evening in the blind About 5:38 PM. The woods became silent. I knew the king was close. At 6:04 PM with about 12 minutes left in legal light, Coke stepped out. The feeling of the adrenaline that hit my body is the feeling that we all long to have, sitting in this tree stand or blind. After watching him for about four minutes, I let my heart rate slow down, I let the crosshairs settle, and squeezed off the trigger. The bullet found its mark. The hunt for Coke was over.

We named that deer two years ago, and some fun doing it. We named him Coke because of the bases on his antlers were so heavy. It looked like a Coke bottle/can. Never named him Pepsi because we have a guy that hunts with us that works for Pepsi. He has been there for 30 some years! We named that deer Coke just to get under his skin – lol.  There is an offspring of Coke at that same bait site. We have named him “Pepsi Zero”.

One thing I wanna make very, very, very clear so that there is no doubt in anyone’s mind. I do not hunt any of the deer on our outfitting lease. The only deer that I will hunt are deer that are on my personal farm land baits, just under 10 miles away from the Chaparral territory.