DENVER (AP) - Turns out, Peyton Manning can hit his targets off the field, as well.

To get over last week's season-ending loss, Manning hooked up with an old buddy from Tennessee, Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, and the two have been crisscrossing the country on a hunting trip.

``He told me he killed, in one day, a duck in Colorado and a deer in Mississippi,'' Manning's dad, Archie, tells The Associated Press.

Anything for Manning to take his mind off Denver's 38-35 loss to Baltimore last Saturday.

``He's trying to get it out of his system,'' Archie Manning says. ``I don't know when that happens or how. But when he reflects on it, he's already said it, it was really a special year.''

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