Home
Store
- Store
- Specials
- Magazines
- Clothing
- Hunting Gear
- Books/DVDs
- Featured
- Back
Hunting
- Hunting
- Ask the Biologist
- Big Buck Central
- Buckmasters On TV
- Gear For Deer
- Hunting News
- In The Kitchen
  - In The Kitchen
  - Dinner Diaries
  - Back
- Land Management
- Outfitters
- Smalltown Bucks
- State DNRs
- Tips and Tactics
- Trail Cams
- Trophy Gallery
- Back
Videos
- Videos
- Tips
  - Tips
  - Bowhunting
  - Gun Hunting
  - Gear
  - Back
- Vital Zone
  - Vital Zone
  - Bow
  - Gun
  - Back
- Big Buck Setup
- Classic Hunts
  - Classic Hunts
  - Bow Hunts
  - Muzzleloader Hunts
  - Rifle Hunts
  - Shotgun Hunts
  - Back
- Land Management
- Memorable Hunts
- Fred Eichler
  - Fred Eichler
  - Top 29 Big Game
  - Bow Tips
  - Predator Hunting
  - Back
- Cooking
- Bloopers
- Beards & Spurs
- Easton Bowhunting
- JB Backstage
- Muzzy Bad To The Bone
- Rack TV
- Dog Training
- Personal Defense
- Back
Resources
- Resources
- BTR
- BADF
- Disabled Hunters
- Expo
  - Expo
  - Top Bow
  - Top Bow Archers
  - Back
- Young Bucks Outdoors
- Mobile App
- Insurance
- Advertise With Us
- Downloads
- About Buckmasters
- Email Subscription
- Back
Contests
Sponsors
Magazines
- Magazines
- Buckmasters
  - Buckmasters
  - Articles
  - Back
- Rack
  - Rack
  - Articles
  - Back
- GunHunter
  - GunHunter
  - Articles
  - Back
- Back
Subscribe
Close

Big Buck 411 Blog

You are here: Hunting > Big Buck Central > Big Buck 411

Oh Wow

By Mike Handley

An emergency medical technician in Brookhaven, Mississippi, carried his own personal defibrillator during the fall of 2017, and it required no electricity. If Tyler Blalock needed to jumpstart his own heart, he had only to pull out a photo of an incredible whitetail that had walked in front of his trail camera for three years in a row. For obvious ...

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.

To contact Mike, click here.

Recent Big Buck 411 Blogs

‘Doctor’s Office Smell’ Spices Up Tink’s

By Mike Handley

The faint aromas of disinfectant, alcohol and hand-wash apparently do not hinder the effectiveness of doe drops. Raquel Dominico didn’t have time to go home and shower off the doctor’s office smell before joining her father, Ric... READ MORE

Three Clicks and a Boom

By Mike Handley

The very year Matt Kelly joined a renowned deer hunting club an hour and a half from home, he shot a bruiser whitetail on property that didn’t cost him a dime. Matt manages his family’s 5,000-plus acres near Carlisle, Arkansas. ... READ MORE

This Burger Had Nearly 219 Inches of Gristle

By Mike Handley

When Fort Wayne, Indiana, deer hunter Bobbie Poynter headed afield with his muzzleloader on Dec. 10, 2017, he was thinking only of his empty freezer. A man who loves venison, he’d decided the trip would be his season finale, even if h... READ MORE