Big Buck 411
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...
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