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Gifts Near And Deer

OC personalities tell of the Christmas presents they've most cherished

Gifts Near And Deer
This mount is special to Lee Lakosky in a number of ways. (Courtesy The Crush)

In this season of giving, we asked a selection of Outdoor Channel personalities to tell us about the best gift they’ve ever received.

What they told us ranged from a specific product they found invaluable in the wild, to a weapon that holds special meaning to a childhood item. But Lee Lakosky of the Crush simply blew us away.

Lakosky tells us about an old whitetail mount that hung in his grandparents’ basement in northern Minnesota.

“As a kid every time we went up to visit the first thing I would do is run downstairs and gaze at it for hours! From the time I was 3 and got my first toy gun that whitetail mount was the quarry of thousands of hunts...

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