It’s been a while since I did a picture post of photos from The Shooter, so I thought everyone would enjoy another installment this morning.

For those of you that don’t know, Dwight Moore was a long-time hunter and photographer here in the Lowcountry for over 50 years. He was a good friend of mine, and he died last March. However before he died, he gave me all of the pictures he had ever taken. I have been going through them whenever I have any extra time in an effort to preserve them as well as get them on the internet where everyone can see them.

The first couple of shots are of Dwight with a few of the 300+ bucks that he killed. The top picture is a 12 point that he shot in 1997 that grossed in the 160s! The other two shots show him in 1982 and in 1972 (black and white pic). These were all great deer, but he didn’t shy away from killing anything with a horn on its head no matter how small. And as far as I know, he never killed a doe -He came from the era when you just did not kill a doe… there just weren’t near the number of deer that we have now, so you left them to breed.

And as a funny aside, you just have to know how I tried to impress my friend over the years. Being the big buck killer that I think I am, I would always go by Dwight’s with any good buck I killed for pictures, and with the hope that he would acknowledge my monster buck-killing ability. However he normally just pulled out his camera and took a few shots without saying a word. He might grunt once or twice while I told the story of the kill, if he thought it was an OK buck. But otherwise he would always just listen without as much as a word… That was just the way he was – VERY quiet.

However, twice I did manage to get him excited about a buck I shot. One was the first buck I ever killed when I was 9 (grossed 140 inches). And then it took me 25 years to do it again with a giant 8 point I killed a few years back. I don’t think I have ever been more proud than when he picked up the antlers to get a better look and muttered something like, “good buck”. I guess when you have killed more monsters than most people have killed total deer, it really has to be something special.

The other pictures from Dwight in this post are of some of the hunters from the Jones 601 Hunting Club he guided for as well as Joe Hadwin, the club’s dog driver. That is him pictured below with the two nice bucks he killed in 1976 as well as the great buck from 1981 (beer in hand).

And if Dwight killed over 300 bucks, Joe had to have shot twice that many- Because Dwight has more pictures of him with big bucks than anyone else in his files. Joe is also not only still alive, but still lives in town just up the road from us. I have been meaning to stop by to see if I couldn’t get an interview about how they used to do things around here… would anyone be interested ?

The young man with the giant non typical is Bill Williams on August 26, 1974 with his 18 point, 192 pound velvet buck. It had a 19 inch spread, and Bill killed it with a 30-30 during a dog drive off of 321. And the man with the green jacket and his wide 8 point buck is Layne Lightsey. He killed the 8 point on December 30, 1974.

Please check out my original post on Dwight to read the full story if you haven’t already! You can also go into the category “Photos from the Shooter” to see all of the posts I have done on him as well as to see all of the other pictures I have already posted from his archives.

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