
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
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...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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....

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Cheers
If Rocky Fahey hadn't stopped at a local watering hole in early November 2015, he might never have revisited the overgrown pasture he'd pretty much crossed...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Brewster Buck is Deer of the Year
Buckmasters’ Deer of the Year for 2019 is the new world record arrowed in Illinois last fall.
The largest free-roaming whitetail ever felled by a hunter, it...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Where There’s a Will …
As is almost always the case, 12-year-old Myka Coleman spotted the buck before her father, Mitch, saw it. Her dad has come to recognize the sharp intakes of...
