Rack Magazine

Entries for June 2022

Thanks, Betsy

Thanks, Betsy

By John E. Phillips

Ohio’s January muzzleloader season pays off. As 52-year-old Mike Stanoikovich sat waiting for sunrise in his deer blind, he asked a departed friend for a favor. “Come on, Betsy. Send me a good buck, because I’m having a lousy season,” he asked the landowner’s late wife, who’d died the previous spring. Betsy used ... READ MORE

Skipping Breakfast

Skipping Breakfast

By Lisa Price

Driving 25 hours is a small price to pay for a hunt where giant deer can’t control their raging hormones. Ten days into their 12-day Minnesota hunt in 2010, Gary Holland was the only Texan who hadn’t burned his nonresident tag. The group had enjoyed a great time to that point. On the ninth day, Gary’s brother, David, bagged the bi... READ MORE

Counting Eggs

Counting Eggs

By Mike Handley

Who says there aren’t any sure bets in the deer woods? Counting unhatched chickens isn’t always a bad thing. The moon, wind and the following day’s weather forecast convinced Trent Siegle to take advantage of a temporary south breeze on Oct. 11, 2016, to check his trail cameras. An approaching front promised rain and cooler temper... READ MORE

How’s This for a First?

How’s This for a First?

By Ed Waite

After taking a nearly 20-year hiatus from hunting, this Ohio man returns to the woods and brings home more than sausage. For some reason he can no longer remember, Gary Douglas quit hunting in 1997. Before that, he enjoyed accompanying family members in West Virginia. “We had a two-story cabin built with hewn logs. It was always filled with f... READ MORE

Priorities

Priorities

By Alex Omid Soltani

Tennessee bowhunter rewarded after fleeing stand to attend his son's birth. I've been enjoying reading Rack magazine for many years, and I finally got a buck of lifetime and would like to share the story. I first saw this deer in 2019 when he was a 130-ish, tall 8-pointer with a unicorn that split. He broke off the unicorn point and another tine th... READ MORE

Deer with Six Names

Deer with Six Names

By Ed Waite

Local legend’s demise sends ripples from Ohio to Maine. Rumors of a gargantuan buck roaming public land began circulating in Ross County, Ohio, in 2013. Next came trail camera photographs of the deer that earned half a dozen nicknames. Marcus Peecher of Frankfort was among many bowhunters who dreamed of arrowing the deer, but he was less opti... READ MORE

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