Mike Green lives in Belle, a Maries County town a little more than a two-hour drive from Springfield. From there, he's been hosting a Big Buck Contest for the past four years and a youth turkey contest for a decade.
The first time he held his contest, just 12 kids signed up. This year, the Big Buck Contest hit 117 participants and wrapped up the early youth portion of firearms season in October with 42 deer checked in by the end of the weekend.
The winner of this year's contest was seven-year-old Kayden Butler, who scored a 12-point buck.