A 265-pound buck taken by an area bow hunter was one of seven bucks weighing more than 200 pounds that were harvested during Camp Ripley's second archery hunt, Oct. 31-Nov. 1.

Archers harvested 305 deer during the second hunt, a record take for the second hunt and only 20 deer below the record two-day total harvest of 325 deer set in 2008 during the first hunt. In 2008, hunters harvested 191 deer during the second hunt.

"Despite very poor weather conditions and lower harvest during the first hunt, this represents one of our best annual harvests at camp, and is only 7 percent below the record take of 516 deer set last year," said Beau Liddell, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Little Falls area wildlife manager.