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Entries for August 2017
Thanksgiving, Two Days Later
By Mike Handley
Brandon Brewer’s infatuation with the 16-pointer he shot in 2016 took root when he found half its rack a year earlier. It bloomed when he collected photographs of the year-older buck. The monstrous whitetail’s was the first image he saw after checking his trail camera that year. Knowing the deer was still alive and even bigger made the ... READ MORE
Zach Galifianakis Wasn’t in this Movie
By Mike Handley
If you ask Ryan Piper, the best remedy for a hangover is Oreo cookies, a selfie and a gagger of a whitetail. Those three things, along with a buddy who wouldn’t take no for an answer, did the trick for this Ohio hunter on Nov. 5, 2016. Noel Underwood, Ryan’s friend and neighbor, was buried on Nov. 4. Afterward, the man’s friends g... READ MORE
Short Arrows, Long Antlers
By Mike Handley
Three of Michigan’s four crossbow records were toppled during the 2016 season. The new No. 1 Perfect is Trent Smith’s Allegan County 10-pointer. Steven Campbell’s 16-pointer is king of the hill among Semi-irregulars. And an 18-pointer taken by Butch Kulikowski is the state’s new Irregular record. Both Campbell’s and Ku... READ MORE
No Culling Necessary in this Sack of Treats
By Mike Handley
Jeff Berkemeier might have collected the mother of all treats on Halloween 2016, but his 12-year-old neighbor had only a broken heart to unwrap. The boy and his father had been keeping tabs on a tall-racked whitetail the’d nicknamed Skyscraper. The woods-saavy kid knew more about the deer’s habits – where it bedded and fed –... READ MORE