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...
198" in Tangipahoa Parish
A lieutenant at Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's office, Daniel Sharkey chased this whitetail through southeast Louisiana's piney woods for 5 years before...
Kansas Shed Measures 100 Inches!
Now is the perfect time to be in the woods scouting for next season, and while you're at it, maybe you'll come across another kind of treasure.
Last month,...
Shoot Happens!
Twenty-year-old Brett Petitt had all but thrown in the towel on his 2022-23 deer season. In every encounter he had with a mature deer, it either wouldn't...
Xen Moment
29-year-old Xen McAllister's Fayette County Freak was less than an inch shy of cracking Buckmasters Trophy Records' top-10 in the irregular, compound bow...
168" Hoosier on Public Land
Bow hunting, like baseball, is a game of failure. Major-league hitters with .300 batting averages fail 70% of their at-bats and still enjoy careers worthy of...
190” Texas Tank
A fine example that giant free-range whitetails reside in northeast Texas can be found in Cody Nicholson’s pre-rut success last year on a new permission...
Bluegrass Shooter Buck
Lifelong New Yorker Robert Smith Jr. made the nine-hour drive to Kentucky for the last four days of the state’s 2022 muzzleloader season and harvested his...
Wall of Tines
There's nothing quite like getting access to a hunting property and finding out it has a big buck on it.
Last August when John Totzke received permission to...
2023 Velvet Stud on KY Public Ground
Jake’s Kentucky buck is the first deer of the Big Buck 411 Blog’s 2023-2024 season, and rightfully so. He’s a self-taught, self-proclaimed newbie in the dark...
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