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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...
Doghouse Deer
Josh Baslee can tell you what the inside of a doghouse is like, and not because he's a nuisance animal control expert.
The 39-year-old from Osawatomie, Kan.,...
Rise and Shine
Chase Jones chose the wrong day to stay in bed.
The 12-year-old is normally eager to join his father, Mike, in a deer stand. On Nov. 26, however, just five...
Have Hour, Will Hunt
Nobody owns the shed antlers of the buck Stan Ethredge shot in 2017, and it wasn’t because the squirrels ate them.
The nearly 230-inch whitetail was wearing...
26-point Swan Song
Two years ago, Barb Putz Sanders put her shingle in the closet. After 50 years of plying her trade as a taxidermist, she walked away from the bench,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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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...
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