
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
‘Desperation Move’
Before Kenny Grant took up bowhunting in 2012, he put little faith in plastic things that go urrrp or mehhh. After all, riflemen don't generally need to coax...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Low-odds Setup
New to the surveillance game, Brad VanderEspt put out two trail cameras in the fall of 2019, one monitoring a very deery location, and the other in a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Louisiana's Top-10 List Gets a Shuffle
John Holladay was moments away from writing off his afternoon hunt when a doe ran into view, a giant buck in her wake. Before the 62-year-old from Kelly,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Thanksgiving, Two Days Later
Brandon Brewer’s infatuation with the 16-pointer he shot in 2016 took root when he found half its rack a year earlier. It bloomed when he collected...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Like Son, Like Father
Last fall, Ohio’s Rick and Doug Kisamore joined a very exclusive club, whose members include fathers and sons with 200-plus-inchers in the record book.
Doug...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
South Dakota Monster
Mike Beadle's South Dakota buck was one of the first to come across my radar in 2021. I had the pleasure of speaking with the 45-year-old from Aberdeen...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Déjà vu with a Different Ending
Eighteen-year-old Brooks Jacobsen hopes he’ll one day be a veterinarian capable of stanching wounds. For now, the student at Wayne Community School is happy...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Kentucky Gains New Xbow Record and Runner-up
Accustomed to calling his own shots, Tim Hannah stepped out of his comfort zone on Nov. 7 to put his faith in an older buddy who wanted badly to re-introduce...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Wide Load
Some deer are just too big to be trussed atop a four-wheeler.
Karen Little and her husband, Allen, gave up trying on Nov. 20, 2016. No amount of lifting,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Ohio’s New Recurve Record
Both good and bad news came out of Logan Glassburn’s Oct. 18, 2020, deer hunt.
After sharing the good news with his wife, Morgan, which took considerably...
