
Big Buck 411

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
But When the School Bell Rings
Danny Scott struck a deal with his grandson, Ben Turner, when they retrieved trail camera photographs of an enormous buck with an unusual buck. First, they...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
The Buck That Wasn’t
When Doug Laird of Russellville, Missouri, talks about the deer he shot in 2014, pronouns appear to jump the tracks.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Hiding and Hunting in Plain Sight
When hunting deer in eastern Colorado, you might have to cross your fingers and channel your inner reptile.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Think Proximity
After weeks of playing musical stands in 2014, his decisions based on trail camera photographs, Bo Holcombe finally spurned his unkillable buck’s three...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
But When the School Bell Rings
Danny Scott struck a deal with his grandson, Ben Turner, when they retrieved trail camera photographs of an enormous buck with an unusual buck. First, they...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Big By Anyone's Measure
When Logan Wise called a diehard deer-hunting friend to tell him that a big Ohio roadkill would soon grace his wall, the man was understandably skeptical.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Whack-a-Deer
For Derrick Blakeley, choosing where on the family’s third-generation farm to usher in Kentucky’s 2018 rifle season was easy. He went to the clover and...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
And from Public Land, No Less
Less than an hour after climbing a tree and pulling up his rifle on Dec. 13, 2016, Mississippian Josh Clark lowered it again in preparation to leave.
The...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Sooner or Later
Paying fanatical attention to scent control might be the only reason Ben Anderson and his buddy of six years, Levi Tussey, got away with hunting from the...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
198" in Tangipahoa Parish
A lieutenant at Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's office, Daniel Sharkey chased this whitetail through southeast Louisiana's piney woods for 5 years before...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
How to Christen a New Bow
When C.J. Boynes dug deep and shelled out for his first bow last July, he probably didn't realize the taxidermy bill his new toy would later generate.
Not...
