
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
A Bittersweet Ohio Deadhead
In January 2022, Stephanie Barber shot what would have been Ohio’s #2 overall semi-irregular in the blackpowder category, and the #1 semi-irregular felled by...

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: PATRICK DUNNING
Chess, Not Checkers
Forty-four year-old Jared Kenner hunts whitetails like he conducts business – diligently. He's killed three deer (all bucks) since he first started hunting...

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: PATRICK DUNNING
No. 1 Bow Buck in GA
Manny Kaloyannide’s record buck from October 2018 graced the cover of Georgia Outdoor News’ July 2023 issue and reigns as the state’s largest compound-felled...

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,...
