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...
Click Your Boots Together Three Times ...
The fifth time Harold Jones drove from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Kansas, he wasn’t headed for public land or to hunt with an outfitter. He’d done each twice,...
Hunt for the Headless Buck
Dustin Procario lost his head in 2018, but he got better.
Eventually.
The hunter from Louisville, Ohio, was over the moon prior to that year’s deer opener....
The Moral: Stay Out Until the Wind is Right
Tom Allen likes to nickname the whitetails on his Most Wanted list.
Worth the Hike, Even in the Dark
Less than a year away from a college degree in land surveying and mapping sciences, Leo Van Beck learned one of his most useful lessons off campus last fall.
Antique Store Buck Cracks Top-10 List of Typicals
If the telegraph were still in use today, the nation’s deer sleuths would be slinging a lot of clicks about an old mount recently rescued from a Pennsylvania...
Despite the Near-70-degree Weather
The beetle man hates Josh Feldman, but at least one taxidermist near Alton, Illinois, could kiss him.
Had it not been for Josh’s shaming, Aaron Fry might’ve...
Father-Son Double
While turkey hunting in the spring of 2018, Shawn Durben saw a buck with huge velvet-covered knobs.
Trail cam photos documented the deer’s meteoric growth...
Do I Stay, or Do I Go?
For 20 minutes on Oct. 4, Chris Kelly thought about trading his box stand for a ringside seat to a buck fight. He knows warring whitetails can get so wound...
Change of Scenery Just the Ticket
The next time someone asks Daniel Montgomery to sit in his treestand, the retired sheriff from Mt. Vernon, Indiana, will not be able to say YES quickly...
Mid-September on Public Land
David Ramey of Cartersville, Georgia, doesn’t mind breaking a sweat while deer hunting, as long as he’s in Kansas with a bug machine. The roughly $555...
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