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DRIFTWOOD OUTDOORS: Hunting heritage

Vogt passes on passion to his son

Jacob Vogt poses with his first whitetail deer.

Jacob Vogt poses with his first whitetail deer.

In you live in Central Missouri and have a serious passion for hunting whitetail deer, then there’s a good chance you know Dan Vogt.

If you don’t know Dan, he’s the regional director for Whitetails Unlimited, and he pretty much eats, drinks and sleeps whitetails 365 days a year. So when Dan told me he had experienced the hunt of his life last season, I knew I had to hear about it.

The story wasn’t what I expected. He didn’t tell me about a double drop tine booner closing inside 20 yards. It wasn’t a story about a state record, or some big nasty freak. In fact, it wasn’t about antlers at all. The story of Dan’s best hunt ever was of his 8-year-old son, Jacob, killing his first deer.

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