
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
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...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Sweet Spot
Drew Miller was glassing a cornfield near Paris, Texas, in mid-August when he spotted a giant buck with drop tines. The deer popped out of a cedar thicket...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
If at First You Don't Succeed
Because 7-year-old Ezra Oettel closed his eyes right before squeezing his rifle's trigger, he missed a dandy 8-pointer on opening day of Indiana's 2016 youth...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
And the Duck Goes Urrrppp?
Whenever Brock Creel and his father want to trade steel shot for duck breasts, they go to their duck hole, a beaver pond in neighboring Madison County,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
What to Do When You're After a Camera-shy Buck
Brandon Sheets grew up hunting arrowheads and fishing on his family's property in Pickaway County, Ohio, but he only started hunting deer there about four...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Double the Trouble
Benny Bell wasn’t surprised when the come-help-me message lit up his phone. His buddy, Brian Cobb, had shot about 7:45 a.m., and the text came afterward.
The...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Back in the Game
You know those Photoshopped images showing a giant Typical standing alongside a Non-typical (usually Milo Hansen’s deer and the Hole in the Horn buck)? The...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Cody and the Double Pitchfork Buck
With an unfavorable wind and forecast of 65 degrees, Cody Cutler hadn't planned to spend any part of Nov. 14, 2015, in his favorite deer stand.
But when he...
