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Entries for February 2016

Have Time, Will Look

Have Time, Will Look

By Mike Handley

Cows on the lam lead Nicholas Johnson of Coleman, Oklahoma, to the bull of the woods back in 2012. Nick hadn't planned to hunt the opening day of rifle season, a Saturday, because he'd scheduled the next nine days off from the casino where he works. But the 34-year-old rose early that morning anyway. "That Friday night, Nov. 16, a neighbor called ... READ MORE

Illinois ‘Elk’

Illinois ‘Elk’

By Mike Handley

Had Timothy Nichols not seen the No. 1 buck on his wish list, not to mention other bucks and a hot doe they all very much wanted, he might have gone home soon after the clouds broke on Nov. 11, 2014. But the deer was close and not likely to leave without its girlfriend, so the bowhunter from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, sent his father, Robert, a one-word... READ MORE

The Turtle and the Unsmelling Buck

The Turtle and the Unsmelling Buck

By Mike Handley

Unless they enjoy being human metronomes, deer hunters in Nebraska and Kansas - the two windiest states in the U.S. - do not scale skinny trees. Nor do they sit in elevated blinds or tripods, if the legs aren't sunken or staked into the ground. The wind must be relatively tame for Lonnie Hermann of McLouth, Kansas, to channel his inner squirrel. Th... READ MORE

Good Things Come

Good Things Come

By Mike Handley

Ryan Slopko almost missed out on his 15 minutes of fame in 2014. If he hadn't passed up an 8-pointer on Oct. 22 that year, the Ohio teenager would never have seen the much larger whitetail in its wake. Ryan and his stepbrother, Danny, were bowhunting about 200 yards apart on their grandmother's Ross County farm that afternoon. Both were hoping for ... READ MORE

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