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Entries for March 2018
Rain Day
By Mike Handley
During harvest time, Aaron Harvey has to wait for bad weather before he can spare the time to sit in a deer stand. When Mother Nature obliged last October, Aaron went hunting for the third time since Ohio’s bow season had opened. He was dying to get a shot at either the 15-pointer or a large 9-pointer his trail cameras had photographed on the... READ MORE
Definition of ‘Ginormous’
By Mike Handley
When Jamie Warner and her then-fiancé, Zach, began looking for a homestead, they turned to an estate auction of 110 acres his family once leased to farm. Trail cameras revealed the property held lots of deer, including a pair of outstanding bucks. Zach began calling the bigger one Goliath, and the other became Goof because of his wonky antle... READ MORE
New World Record: Compound, Perfect, Velvet
By Mike Handley
For Don Erickson, hearing is believing. Prior to North Dakota’s 2017 bow opener, Don’s understanding of deerspeak was simple: Bucks grunt, and does and fawns bleat. But the well-fed doe he and a nearly 180-inch 8-pointer heard on Sept. 1 uttered more grunt than bleat. Whatever she said, the buck took note. The Jamestown, N.D., bowhunter... READ MORE
Long Odds
By Mike Handley
For Jake Steven, assigning most-wanted status to a buck has more to do with predictability than the size of its rack. That’s why his No. 1 target in 2017 was a 12-pointer, even though his trail camera had yielded photographs of a much larger whitetail. The 26-year-old real estate agent and auctioneer might’ve been overly pessimistic, ho... READ MORE