
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
Doe City Yields County Record in North Carolina
Things didn't go as planned when Warren Cooper took a tenant to his father's property in Franklin County, Virginia, on Nov. 10. The itinerary was...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Coming Attraction
Taylor Drury has been deflating whitetails since she was 12 years old. Last season, the 23-year-old arrowed her biggest ever, an Iowa buck wearing nearly 190...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
If You Pass Them, They Will Grow
Brian Lay must possess more self control than your average deer hunter, and the same could be said for antlers.
As the man from Harrodsburg, Kentucky,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Should I Go or Should I Stay?
The voices inside Blake Wilson’s head lasted for nearly three months.
From the moment the 28-year-old bowhunter from Rison, Arkansas, retrieved a trail...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Halloween Treat
Halloween has long been one of the Buckeye State’s biggest yielders of bodacious whitetails, but that’s not why Levi Lease chose to go hunting last Oct. 31.
...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Illinois ‘Elk’
Had Timothy Nichols not seen the No. 1 buck on his wish list, not to mention other bucks and a hot doe they all very much wanted, he might have gone home...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Alone in the Deep Freeze
Mike Stanoikovich never thought he’d be hunting alone on Jan. 7, 2017. The plan was for him and his 13-year-old son, Jack, to share the ground blind, but the...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Public Land Bruiser
Landin Hall doesn’t have to hunt public land. Neither does he have to cross state lines to find bucks that’ll blow his taxidermy budget.
In 2020, however,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Counting Eggs
Counting unhatched chickens isn't always a bad thing.
The moon, wind and the following day's weather forecast convinced Trent Siegle to take advantage of a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
This One was a 160 without the Junk
Jakob Begley was crestfallen when the whitetail at the top of his wish list would come no closer than 70 yards the one day he actually saw the animal in...
