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Near-State-Record Buck Causes Whiplash In Kentucky
By Mike Handley
David Whitaker might be responsible for a man’s wearing a neck brace in Jackson County, Kentucky, but it’s doubtful an insurance claim will be filed.
True, the 60-year-old deer hunter from Berea could’ve used a WIDE LOAD banner across the back of his four-wheeler on Nov. 12, but with or without that designation, nobody would&rs... READ MORE
Little Mossy Horns Sets County Record in Ohio
By Mike Handley
Alex Wright wasn’t surprised when his uncle said he couldn’t hunt where a trail camera had photographed the obscenely huge buck the man had reluctantly passed up twice.
The 35-year-old tire builder from Stryker, Ohio, had been monitoring the deer for three years. Trail cam images revealed it was a 12-pointer with matching kickers in ... READ MORE
A World-Record Crown Without Jewels
By Mike Handley
The Indiana buck Seth Hernandez shot with his crossbow on Oct. 29 had antlers to spare, but no change in its purse. Not that the deer hunter nor the three dozen friends who ogled it at his home spent much time looking underneath the new world record.
The first clue this was no ordinary buck was its 284-inch rack. The second indicator was the ant... READ MORE
Coffey County Buck Reshuffles Kansas Records
By Mike Handley
Had Dallas Birk kept walking instead of responding to a friend’s cry about finding blood on Oct. 18, the coyotes in his corner of Coffey County might have gone hungry that night.
The 32-year-old trackhoe operator from Burlington, Kansas, was walking along a pond dam, scouring the earth for any sign of the buck he’d arrowed a few hour... READ MORE
Rare as a Unicorn
By Buckmasters
Headquartered in Montgomery, Ala., Buckmasters has a perceived reputation as being a Southeastern company. Truth is, if you take a map of the United States and overlap it with where whitetails roam and where Buckmasters fans reside, it’s almost a perfect match — we’re just as popular in the Northeast and Mid-West as we are in the ... READ MORE
Bank Error In Your Favor
By Buckmasters
As you can imagine, with all the measuring, fractions and addition that go into scoring a buck, we sometimes make mistakes. That’s why we built multiple levels of checks into the process of recording a deer into the record book. While the scorers perform all the math for adding up the inches, as well as determining the percentage of irregular... READ MORE
Prepare to Be Inspired by the Hunt of a Lifetime!
By Buckmasters
In this episode, we sit down with Anders Blixt—a devoted husband, father of four daughters, passionate pastor, and a valued official scorer on the Buckmasters Trophy Records (BTR) scoring team—whose Ohio whitetail story is nothing short of extraordinary. Scoring an unbelievable 203 2/8 inches, this buck is the kind of legend hunters dre... READ MORE
And the Floodgates Have Opened!
By Kenneth Piper
It’s great to see that so many hunters are having better seasons than I am, even if the sheer volume of giant bucks hitting the ground makes me feel like I must be doing something wrong.
Once again the bucks we’re about to share with you are but a sampling of the great deer that are falling, and it includes candidates for the 2025 Bu... READ MORE
Big Bucks Are Falling Like Autumn Leaves!
By Kenneth Piper
It's been a crazy start to the 2024 seasons. What began as a furry with a cool front helping the early openers soon drizzled out for a few slow weeks.
As we head into November, however, the action has picked up and then some. Our BTR scorers have been working their tails off and put more than 50 bucks in the record book in just the past 10 days.
... READ MORE
Over 200 Inches of Canadian Antler
By Cody Hall
After four years of dedication, Evan Proctor finally closed the chapter on a 218-inch Manitoba whitetail buck he's pursued through countless encounters and rich history. This massive Canadian deer was ultimately taken by Evan with a bow earlier this month—a feat many hunters only dream of achieving. Tune into our latest podcast for the full s... READ MORE
Too ... Make That Three ... Perfect
By Kenneth Piper
The bucks we’re highlighting this week aren’t going to break any records, but they are great examples of how some really special deer don’t get the recognition they deserve.
We don’t normally talk about bucks scoring under 180 in the BB411, but three bucks came across my desk this week that caught my eye because of their ... READ MORE
Deja Vu All Over Again
By Kenneth Piper
Virginia bowhunter is having a season for the ages.
If Christian Howes had stopped hunting on Aug. 24, he already would have had a great season.
Traveling to Tennessee from his home state of Virginia to catch one of the earliest bow openers in the country, Christian shot an impressive 13-pointer on the 23rd.
His Tennessee buck scored 178 2... READ MORE
2024 Could Be a Banner Year
By Mark Melotik
The 2024 deer is off to an incredible start, largely we’re told thanks to a cold front that chilled things in Kentucky for its traditional bow opener. If you ever wanted proof that cooler weather encourages buck movement in late summer/early fall, here it is.
We’ve gotten so many Kentucky giants sent our way that people are complaini... READ MORE
A Giant Second Chance
By Mark Melotik
Now you see him, now you don’t. That quaint phrase more or less describes John Egan Griffith’s bowhunt for one of the most-impressive mainframe 8-point bucks ever taken, a buck Griffith would finally anchor last Oct. 15, following a three-year chase in north Louisiana.
Griffith, 28, has been hunting the same family owned 1,000-acre p... READ MORE
Kentucky 8-Pointer Is New Best-Ever
By Mark Melotik
Bowhunters live for those up-close, in-your-face encounters that make neck hackles stand up straight. But how close is too close? On Sept 12, 2024, Kentucky’s Brandon Burman found that answer was about 10 yards. Unable to shoot through a screen of branches that helped conceal his 20-foot perch, he could only watch a world-class 8-pointer belo... READ MORE