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Entries for February 2020
Maiden Season
By Mike Handley
Very few people possess the chutzpah to pick up a rifle for the first time and centerpunch a target, especially a living, breathing one. But that’s exactly what 18-year-old Madelyn Calvert did in 2019. The Warrensburg, Missouri, teen had never hunted before last season. And she’d never shot a gun prior to Nov. 20, the day she ridded Cha... READ MORE
Homeowners with Benefits
By Mike Handley
Before closing on their new Kentucky home and land last September, Jimmy and Scarlett Tapp put out trail cameras. A day later, they began amassing photos of a giant whitetail they began calling Stickers, for obvious reasons. The landowner had retrieved images of the deer the previous season as well, when it was carrying 50 or 60 fewer inches. &ldqu... READ MORE
The Buck That Came Back from the Dead
By Mike Handley
When Broc Atwood learned one of his neighbors had shot a buck in 2018 that scored in the 180s, he was heartbroken. The 42-year-old fireman from Danville, Illinois, had trail camera video clips of such a deer in 2016 and 2017, when it would’ve been slightly smaller. He had collected no images that year. Mystery solved, he reckoned. Imagine Bro... READ MORE
Switching Targets
By Mike Handley
The slammer whitetail Scott Stauffer took to the taxidermist last fall was neither the first nor second on the Ohio hunter’s pre-season wish list. He forgot about those as soon as he acquired trail camera photographs of No. 3. The first deer he put at the top of his list was a mature 10-pointer that might’ve scored in the 150s. The anim... READ MORE