Deer sizes said up, Vt. hunters happy

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Officials say the first few days of the deer hunting season are showing some encouraging results.

Hunters say they are seeing bigger deer this year with some attributing hunters are attributing that to a recent restriction on taking young, spikehorn deer.

In less than a half hour Sunday morning, the check station at R&L Archery in Barre checked in four bucks, two of them weighing more than 160 pounds.

State wildlife officials say they expect about 7,000 deer to be taken this year, about on par with last year.

The rifle hunting season opened Saturday and runs through Nov. 30.

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