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...
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...
Bullet-worthy
Perry Richardson doesn't spend a lot on broadheads or bullets.
He could easily punch his Kentucky buck tag every season, since the Meade County farm he hunts...
Better than Splotches
When Bryan LeVan left work at 3:30 on Nov. 5, 2018, his destination was the 180-acre tract he’s deer hunted for two decades.
The highway worker from West...
Old School
Guy Draper’s 2024 buck didn’t have a name. There are no known trail camera images of it, and he had no history with the giant whitetail that occupied the No....
New Texas Record is Deer of the Year
For the first time since Buckmasters began awarding its annual Golden Laurel Citation, a Texas specimen will claim deer hunting's highest honor.
Tarif...
Proactive
Longtime Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda once quipped there are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens,...
Samaritan Continues to Reap Rewards
While hunting a decade ago, Brad Heuvelmann of Burlington, Iowa, ran into an older gentleman dragging a trophy buck over fresh snow. The man had shot the...
Luke’s Pinup Buck
From the 1940s through the 1980s, guys and gals taped or pinned posters on their walls to gaze at and fantasize about their hearts’ desires. The practice...
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