
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: PATRICK DUNNING
First buck hits Top 10 in Hoosier State
Gregory George grew up in a family of hunters in the western part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, where he says folks gun hunt for meat in sweatpants, and...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
State Trooper Fells 190” in MO
I can’t say I’ve ever had a story fall right into my lap like this one did.

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
250+ Inch Okie Buck New Bow Record
Ethan Kile’s 27-point hammer from October 2023 is our new compound bow record in the Sooner State, posting 237 total inches of antler and a BTR score of 256...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
No. 1 Whitetail in Kansas
When row crop farmer Darin Williams realized he had a world-class buck passing through the back of his Coffey County farm in June 2022, he figured his best...



BY: PATRICK DUNNING
200-Inch State Record Taken on Fort Knox
For the past two years, Kentucky state trooper Colt Stumbo has tagged along with his buddies for a quota gun hunt on Fort Knox’s military reservation in...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Buck on the Run
Dani Thomas killed her biggest buck to date in the rain from a hay wagon in October 2022. This Licking County Giant posted over 11 inches of irregular points...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Massive Kansas Deadhead
14-year-old Bryson Allen found a massive 238-inch Kansas deadhead on May 18 while fishing Clarks Creek with friends. Although the young man hasn’t harvested...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Youth Hunter Fells 200” in Michigan
On the second morning of Michigan’s 2023 youth weekend, 15-year-old Dylan Meyer harvested the state’s third largest whitetail in BTR’s shotgun category on a...
