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Entries for October 2020

Ohio Hunter Gains Fifth Record-book Listing

Ohio Hunter Gains Fifth Record-book Listing

By Mike Handley

Hunter Quinn first became acquainted with the buck he arrowed in 2019 three years earlier, when it wore seven fewer points. He would’ve taken it then, in 2017, 0r in 2018, given the chance. When Hunter’s trail cameras weren’t yielding any photos of the whitetail beyond the spring of ’19, he worried it was dead or gone. He ne... READ MORE

Fourteen-point Cold Remedy

Fourteen-point Cold Remedy

By Mike Handley

Ohio shotgunner Owen Daniels is the latest member of what has to be a tiny group of deer hunters who have followed blood trails BEFORE launching an arrow or firing a bullet. The buck he shot in 2019, however, left no trail at all. “The first week of gun season, I went almost to the back of the 260-acre farm we hunt,” Owen told Ed Waite,... READ MORE

Westward Ho!

Westward Ho!

By Mike Handley

It’s a good thing Ricky Fretwell’s boat trailer has a solid axle, leaf springs and well greased wheel bearings. Almost a year ago, the Florida resident and a couple of friends trailered a boat for 40 hours (roundtrip) in order to hunt deer on public ground in Kansas. Ricky and his lifelong pal, Kenny, studied maps of the tract before th... READ MORE

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