After taking a 12-point buck last weekend in the Missouri youth deer season, Madolyn Swinney, 12, figures she has bragging rights at her grade school.</p><p>&ldquo;The nice thing is that I get to brag to all the boys,&rdquo; said Swinney, who lives in Pleasant Hill and is in sixth grade. &ldquo;Most of them only took does.</p><p>&ldquo;But I got this big buck. I think they were kinda jealous.&rdquo;</p><p>They should have been. Swinney, who was hunting with her dad, Shawn, on her grandpa&rsquo;s farm in Caldwell County, took a true trophy.</p><p>Not that taking a buck deer is anything out of the ordinary for her. She has been hunting deer for four years and had taken two other bucks.</p><p>&ldquo;I have a mount of the first deer I took hanging in my room,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;ll have this one next to it.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really excited.&rdquo;</p><p>She wasn&rsquo;t the only Missouri youngster saying that. Over the two-day youth deer season last weekend, hunters shot 13,328 deer &mdash; just short of the record 13,466 taken in 2004.</p><p>For Dan Owen, 75, of Kansas City, the two-day season was especially memorable.</p><p>He watched as his three grandsons all took nice bucks on a farm he owns near Mercer County.</p><p>First Tanner Owen, 12, took a 10-point buck Oct. 31. About 40 minutes later, Spencer Denney, 11, shot an 8-pointer. Last Sunday morning, Austin Denney, 14, shot an 11-pointer.</p><p>All three boys are from Parkville and were hunting with family members.</p><p>&ldquo;To have three bucks this size taken within 24 hours, that&rsquo;s something,&rdquo; Dan Owen said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve taken a lot of deer over the years, but I&rsquo;ve never shot one with a rack like these.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a proud grandpa. After the hunt, my son Phil said, &lsquo;Well, you&rsquo;ve started a third generation of deer hunters in our family.&rsquo;&ensp;&rdquo;</p><p>And that couldn&rsquo;t please Owen more.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve hunted deer for more than 50 years,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a good time getting together with friends and family to hunt over the years. It&rsquo;s nice that my grandsons are going to carry that tradition on.&rdquo;</p><p>Mark Harris of Kearney, 14, also had reason to be excited.</p><p>Hunting on a farm near King City, Mo., last Sunday, he shot a 10-point buck with a rack that had a green score of 171 on the Boone and Crockett scale.</p><p>That deer made him a celebrity on the way home.</p><p>&ldquo;We stopped at a truck stop, and everyone came over to get a look at that deer,&rdquo; said his dad, Jon Harris. &ldquo;They say that everyone has their five minutes of fame. Well, Mark had his.&rdquo;</p><p><hr class="infobox-hr-separator" /> <div class="infobox"> @ Go to <strong>KansasCity.com</strong> for Outdoors Digest and the hunting calendar.</p><p></div>