
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
Mistaken Identity
Corey Bacon is usually pretty good at judging bucks by their cover, but he was dead wrong last year.
The 28-year-old from Lebo, Kansas, mistakenly thought...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Two Years from Poof to Pow
Blake Whelchel says the nearly 200-inch Oklahoma buck he shot in 2016 was between 20 and 30 inches bigger the previous year, and he has the trail camera...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Opening Day to Remember
Knowing whitetails will walk over corn to Hoover up acorns, Dylan Martin figured he had two weeks before the unusual buck on his Most Wanted list went AWOL....

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Trading a Soup Spoon for a Fork
It took half a decade for Husky Hummel to leave Ohio with something more than a nonresident hunting license in his pocket.
The 48-year-old car dealer from...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Prone to Hitting the Bull's-eye
Jody Beth Walker did her best imitations of a doe, a rock and a bush to lure a 19-pointer into her sights in 2014.
The huntress from London, Kentucky, a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
From Bust to Boom
Brandon Myers slipped an arrow through this drop-tined buck just nine hours after it walked past his trail camera.
The Ohio bowhunter had dedicated most of...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Jersey Doe Lives for Another Day
Corwin Myers spent a lot of time shivering in a Hunterdon County, New Jersey, deer stand during the first week of January 2018. Trail camera photographs of...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Double the Pleasure
Des Moines bowhunter Brady Snyder doesn't always budget for taxidermy, but when he does, he prefers paying double.
That's what happened in 2019 anyway, when...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
When Stars and Buzzards Align
A grouping of crows is called a murder. Geese (on the ground) are a gaggle. Deer herd, ducks flock and fish school.
Do you know what a group of buzzards is...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Who Wouldn't Play Hooky?
In the fall, Kyle Bowers often spends the remains of weekdays in a deer stand. One Friday last November, however, he decided an evening sit wasn't enough.
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