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Entries for July 2018
The Bean Field Buck
By Mike Handley
Mel Johnson, the Illinois bowhunter whose 1965 buck remains one of the longest-reigning world records in the BTR, died in May at the age of 84. Mel arrowed the deer while hunting next to a soybean field near his home near Peoria. He’d stopped there after work at the Caterpillar plant on Friday, Oct. 29. He originally planned to hunt from a tr... READ MORE
Poster Buck for Trigger Restraint
By Mike Handley
Need more than a wildlife biologist’s suggestion to let young bucks walk (if you’re interested in high-octane antlers)? Consider Brandon Ramirez’s story from January. Brandon collected a trail camera photograph of an 8-pointer in 2014. Recognizing it was an immature deer, he never considered shooting it. He also passed it up... READ MORE
Making the Best of 45 Minutes
By Mike Handley
Prior to 2017, Tyler Stull felt like he was pouring money in a hole and wasting his time trying to shoot a really big deer off the land he was hunting. So when a customer offered to let him hunt her 40 acres in Meade County, Kentucky, the young carpenter was thrilled over the prospects of a change of scenery and better chances to connect with a dre... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE