
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
Carpe Diem (Seize the Moment)
For Emily Schaad, the iron was hot on Oct. 10, 2020, and boy did she strike!
The Stockport, Ohio, huntress had been hoping to get a shot at a camera-shy buck...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Goofy Comes of Age
Quaker Boy Calls’ pro-staffer Greg Gershon shot a buck in 2019 that had been on his radar for four years.
He and the others who are part of the 1,400-acre...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Thanks, Boss
After seeing a humongous buck while glassing a soybean field in July, Justin Mooney secured permission from his boss, who owns the adjacent 20-acre block, to...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
She Got Heads, He Got Tails
Iowa’s tag lottery determined whether Taylor Byers or her husband, Caleb, would be behind the trigger when the 2019 muzzleloader season opened on Oct. 12.
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BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Ohio Buck a Gershwin Song
While just as impressive, do not confuse the monstrous deer Spook Spann arrowed this past season with the one that made headlines nine years ago. The...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
The Canoe Buck
An awful lot of big buck photos have been shared on social media in the last couple of weeks, and a surprising number of them have been monstrous Typicals....

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Iowa’s Latest Colossus
For two years, Jacob Darbyshire invested countless hours hunting a giant whitetail he’d nicknamed Major League. Before Oct. 29, 2019, the closest he came was...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Coyotes vs. Deranged Deer Hunter
When Ohio bowhunter Jeremy Conrad began trailing the giant, opening-day whitetail he’d arrowed 45 minutes earlier, he soon realized he wasn’t alone.
Jeremy...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Shooting without Breathing
A 200-inch whitetail is a bucket-list specimen, and, for most of us, it’s a box that’ll never be ticked.
In 2020, then-15-year-old Claire Flood put a big...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Public Land Giant Claims Tennessee’s No. 3 BP Spot
When Josh Robbins gave up his deer lease on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, he knew his opportunities to put venison in the freezer were going to be limited in...
