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Entries for February 2023
Right Time, Right Place
By Dale Weddle
Some things are just meant to be. Evan Richardson is not your typical 12-year-old. While other kids his age might find a thousand things more interesting than twiddling their thumbs in a deer stand, Evan can’t imagine anything more pleasurable. He might be short in the tooth, but this little deer hunter already values the experience more than... READ MORE
The 246-incher You Never Heard About
By Rusty Johnson
This Oklahoma giant flew under the radar. George Allen Jr. has hunted the same stand on his father-in-law’s property for almost 20 years, and he’s harvested some great bucks there. None, however, can touch the whitetail he yelled at on Nov. 20, 2016. George knew a big 10-pointer was roaming the Seminole County tract in 2016, and he hunt... READ MORE
Greener Pastures
By Dale Weddle
Ohio deer hunter crosses river to collect a little venison AND the buck of his dreams. Keith Miller is the kind of friend every hunter should have. “He’s serious about his hunting,” says Erik Heller. “Still, he was willing to share his spot with me.” That spot is a 200-acre farm in Kentucky, just across the Ohio River ... READ MORE
The Way to a Man’s Wallet
By Ed Waite
Double drops are a powerful incentive. It took seeing a buck with matching drop tines for Sam Tolbert to spring for a couple of trail cameras. It’s also why he bought his first crossbow. Sam was making a mid-morning, pre-party dumpster run on July 9, his son’s birthday, when he spotted three racked whitetails emerging from the trees and... READ MORE
Change of Plan
By Ed Waite
A funny thing happened on the way to a noontime rendezvous. The Indiana whitetail Zack Bowling tagged in 2016 got 15 free passes two years earlier, when it was a 4 1/2-year-old with an attitude. The bowhunter from Indianapolis would’ve shot it in 2015, but opportunity never knocked. He wound up spending more time in a hospital bed than in a d... READ MORE