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Entries for April 2023
If at First You Don’t Succeed
By Ed Waite
Rather than throwing in the towel after a miss, father and son hit the reset button. David and Brittany Oettel knew a bigger-than-average whitetail roamed the area near their farm as early as Christmas 2014. An across-the-road neighbor, a bowhunter, told them he’d stuck a giant buck and hadn’t found it. The man was convinced the shot wa... READ MORE
Image No. 1
By John E. Phillips
Arkansas man a believer in trail cameras after his first photograph. Stumbling upon a shed antler in 2015 set the stage for Brandon Brewer’s deer season the following year. The hunter from Humnoke, Arkansas, found the half-rack on the farm he works. He’d been walking the edge of a reservoir filled with buckbrush, which had sprouted duri... READ MORE
Choosing Eenie over Meenie
By John E. Phillips
Mississippi deer hunter bases choice of destination on nighttime sighting vs. daytime photos. Trail camera photographs, shed antlers and a witness’ wide-eyed description might’ve piqued Pittman Edwards’ interest in the giant whitetail seen by members of at least two hunting clubs in Bolivar County, but it took seeing the animal to... READ MORE
Trading Whiskers for Whitetails
By Matt Bingham
This Tennessean mothballs his rods and reels when the oaks begin dropping acorns. I am an avid Mississippi River catfisherman for most of the year, but I swap my fishing stuff for deer hunting gear between September and December. A few years ago, my fishing partner, Josh Doyle of Marion, Arkansas, invited me to hunt with him in St. Francis County. ... READ MORE