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Entries for April 2020
One of a Kind from Every Man’s Land
By Dale Weddle
Sometimes a guy just has to wade into the maddening crowd. Could access to 170,000 acres of public hunting ground cause you to move three or four states away? What if one of your first trail camera photographs from the area showed a 30-point buck? Those might not have been the reasons Jack Seppala packed his bags and moved from New Hampshire to Ken... READ MORE
Beast Between the Lakes
By Ed Waite
Sharing parking lots with fishermen and blood with ticks were small prices to pay in the 1970s for access to big deer in western Kentucky. Ask almost any bowhunter in Kentucky to name the country’s best deer hunter, and you’re going to get a slew of votes for David Howard. The proof, they say, is hanging inside the man’s home. Whi... READ MORE
Hunting and Hiding in Plain Sight
By John E. Phillips
When hunting eastern Colorado, you might have to cross your fingers and channel your inner reptile. Bill Lambert of West Monroe, Louisiana, never imagined he’d find himself belly-crawling with a weapon after leaving the military. But the old training came in handy while he was deer hunting in Kiowa County, Colorado, in December 2014. He and h... READ MORE
Between Balogna and 5-Year-Old Granola
By Tim Beck
This Hoosier bruiser ties the BTR’s world shotgun record, at least in composite score. “You shot my deer!” I heard someone exclaim as I sat in my treestand watching the steam rising from the nostrils of my freshly downed buck. I looked to my left and saw a moose of a man in camouflage. He crossed from his cornfield behind me onto ... READ MORE