
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
Making the Best of 45 Minutes
Prior to 2017, Tyler Stull felt like he was pouring money in a hole and wasting his time trying to shoot a really big deer off the land he was hunting.
So...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Kansas Bowdom Gets a New No. 6
Chad Chambers’ buck from 2024 reshuffled the Sunflower State’s compound bow records, seizing the No. 6 spot among Irregulars.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Former Pencil Rack Potential Saskatchewan Record
In Jon Nicholson's mind, traveling more than 2,000 miles, standing in line at Canadian customs kiosks and buying the proper licenses and tags are only small...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
From the Land of Ticks
Ask almost any bowhunter in Kentucky to name the country's best deer hunter, and you're going to get a slew of votes for David Howard. The proof, they say,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Switching Targets
The slammer whitetail Scott Stauffer took to the taxidermist last fall was neither the first nor second on the Ohio hunter’s pre-season wish list. He forgot...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
A Different Kind of Crown
Deer hunters in St. Francisville have some of the whitest, best-tended choppers in all of Louisiana.
That’s because Dr. Frank Sullivan’s office has monstrous...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
One Buck, Two Blood Trails
Randall Britton of Morristown, Ohio, climbed into his ladder stand about 3 p.m. on Oct. 28, 2013, eager to see if the rut had started in that corner of...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Three for Three
Last year in Missouri, young deer hunters were able to hunt with rifles (with an accompanying adult) two weeks before the season opened for regular...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
West Virginia Buck Shuffles Records
The best thing Jesse Truman has ever done, as a deer hunter, was forgetting about a trail camera on the 200 acres he hunts in Clay County, West Virginia,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Reaping What You Sow
Before Brook Current created food plots on the land that sucked up his life’s savings, he was fretting and worried his “piece of heaven” was more like a...
