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An Illinois Halloween Treat | By Mark Melotik

South Louisiana’s Janie Milioto bagged her first deer at the tender age of 6 and has been getting after it ever since. The latest example of her drive, dedication and whitetail savvy is her jaw-dropping 2023 Illinois bow buck — a long-tined main-frame 10-pointer the hard-hunting 26-year-old called into bow range last Halloween. READ MORE

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Clifford Pickell Buck
Clifford Pickell Buck

By Buckmasters Online

In mid­-October, 1968, Wichita bowhunter Clifford Pickell took several shots at a gorgeous buck. Only one of his arrows hit it, high in the shoulder. Cliff crossed paths with the same buck in November. He was disappointed there was no opportunity fo... READ MORE


Mike Beatty Buck
Mike Beatty Buck

By Dan Armitage

Fumbling nervously in the darkness for one of his distinctive white-fletched arrows, Mike Beatty had made one of the toughest decisions of his life: to temporarily abandon the search for the monstrous whitetail he'd shot at dusk. Still not convinced ... READ MORE


David Melton Buck
David Melton Buck

By Mike Handley

It was no small miracle that five Alabama men didn’t drown in the Tombigbee River back in 1956. Since none of them are alive today to tell the story of what happened 52 years ago, it isn’t known whether their johnboat was aluminum or wood... READ MORE


Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies

By Mike Handley

’Twas a tiny female fly — not a bullet, broadhead or Buick — that brought down the largest antlered (wild) whitetail in North America last year. And it might have gone undiscovered had a Kansas man not taken a stroll along a creek b... READ MORE


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