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Allegheny County buck ranks as No. 13 in archery category The hunters who top Pennsylvania’s all-time list for largest bucks harvested will remain there a while longer. The Pennsylvania Game Commission today took official measurements on an exceptionally large rack from a whitetail buck taken in Allegheny County two months ago, during the statewide archery season. Many believed the buck held the potential to be a new state record, but the final score fell short of the leaders. The typical 10-point buck taken with a crossbow Oct. 10 by Fayette County hunter Jeff Lenzi netted a score of 166 inches, based on Boone & Crockett Club standards for scoring big-game animals. The score places the buck at No. 13 in the typical archery category in the Pennsylvania Big Game Records book. The top buck in that category, taken in Allegheny County in 2004 by Michael Nicola Sr., of Waterford, scores 178 2/8 inches. The largest typical buck on record in Pennsylvania, taken in Bradford County...

A hunter was hit in the leg by a bullet Thursday morning after getting into a fight with another hunter on state game lands in Potter County. Police say 28-year-old Jarrett Rapp of Marietta was leaving a wooded area of Pike Township when he got into an argument with another hunter, who fired a bullet that grazed Rapp’s leg, causing a minor injury. The unidentified man then hit Rapp, who then hit him in the face with his rifle. The man is white and is in his 40s. He drove away in a light blue pickup truck. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact Coudersport-based state police. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947