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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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