
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
Velvet Giant from LBL
Jack Seppala was ready to trade his last hour of daylight - prime time in the deer woods - for a truck heater.
Thirty-five degrees isn't so bad. Pushed by a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Long Poke at a State Record
David Lecuyer doesn't always take 280-yard shots at deer. But when he does, he shoots twice.
The first two bullets - David's and his buddy Bobby's - probably...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
The ‘Gawd-awfullest Buck’
Kentucky’s 2020 archery season has yielded several great whitetails in and out of velvet, but few can match Joey Craver’s kickstand buck.
Joey can thank a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Never Bet a Guy without Seeing His Cam Pics
Patrick Woodruff’s first crossbow buck earned him $1,000 from friends who’d wagered he wouldn’t score.
The bets were placed during the group’s annual Labor...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
A 10 on the Sphincter Scale
Nobody knows better than Jason McKenzie that when a man's tectonic plates shift, only a giant whitetail can stop the quake.
The hunter from Shongaloo, La.,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
New Runner-up Crossbow Record
By almost anyone’s yardstick, the deer Brennan Morris shot this season was a prime candidate to be culled in 2019. Few practitioners of QDM allow a mature...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
In Praise of Buckspeak
Joe Blanton would almost rather discover he'd left his bullets at home than find out he'd gone afield without his trusty grunt call. He uses the contraption...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
After Eight Years
Whenever Wayne Cox heads home to North Carolina after deer hunting in Kansas, he has fewer blank scoresheets in his measuring kit. The ones with numbers...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Near-State-Record Buck Causes Whiplash In Kentucky
David Whitaker might be responsible for a man’s wearing a neck brace in Jackson County, Kentucky, but it’s doubtful an insurance claim will be filed.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Census Taker
You could call Steve Matt of Eureka Springs, Ark., a census taker, even though he doesn't carry a clipboard and knock on doors.
He collects most of his data...
