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Happy Birthday to Me

By Mike Handley

Nothing says Happy Birthday more than a sleepover, right? To Brett Mowery’s way of thinking, staying the night at his mother’s house on her 91st birthday would be the perfect gesture, so long as that night ended at 4:30 a.m. Brett had every intention of bowhunting Monday morning, Oct. 24. He was up early, making coffee and fixing himsel...

Mike Handley | Big Buck 411 Blog Editor

Mike Handley has decades of experience measuring, researching and writing about monster bucks. Each week, Mike will update everyone in the Big Buck 411 Blog on giant whitetail news from across North America. When a new record falls, you will be one of the first to know about it.

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No Culling Necessary in this Sack of Treats

By Mike Handley

Jeff Berkemeier might have collected the mother of all treats on Halloween 2016, but his 12-year-old neighbor had only a broken heart to unwrap. The boy and his father had been keeping tabs on a tall-racked whitetail the’d nicknamed S... READ MORE

No Time to Spare

By Mike Handley

What began as just another sweaty afternoon stint in a shooting house for William Vickers ended 22 deer later with a puff of smoke. Because he was baking inside an enclosed box blind, the 36-year-old engineer from Marianna, Arkansas, didn't... READ MORE

Not All Rumors are Unfounded

By Mike Handley

Had Tom Wingate not retrieved trail camera photographs of an exceptional mainframe 8-pointer in 2015, he might’ve dismissed the following year’s rumors of a monster roaming the farmland near his 450-acre lease on Maryland’... READ MORE