
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
Freak Buck in Okie
Al Shene sent a bolt through this 31-pointer, nicknamed Stickers, on opening day of Oklahoma’s 2023 rifle season in Pottawatomie County. The 61-year-old had a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Fool Me Once …
Going into Louisiana’s 2017 deer season, Charles Brossette knew at least one decent buck was living in the 600 acres he hunts in Natchitoches Parish. A trail...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Keep Tabs on Does
Derek DeVader learned a valuable lesson this fall. If you’re keeping tabs on a mature Kansas whitetail that keeps disappearing in November, you can bet it’s...

BY: MARK MELOTIK
A Giant Second Chance
Now you see him, now you don’t. That quaint phrase more or less describes John Egan Griffith’s bowhunt for one of the most-impressive mainframe 8-point bucks...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
No Joke
Alicia Miller might've heard a shotgun blast possibly emanating from within the family's 30-acre farm. But gullible, she isn't.
She and her husband Arjay...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
It's Official: Huff Buck is a World Record
This will come as no surprise to deer hunters who browse social media, but the state of Indiana yielded a new world-record whitetail last fall.
Greensburg's...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
New Hampshire’s No. 2 Whitetail
Chances are, Dan Blanchette wouldn’t have driven into New Hampshire last September if the state of Maine allowed Sunday hunting.
While scouting public land...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Staking Out the Bedroom
In the whitetail world, the shortest distance between points A and B isn’t necessarily a straight line. Even during the summer and early hunting season, when...

BY: MARK MELOTIK
The Latest Buck Bedding Research
Have you ever set a stand based on where you believed a mature buck was bedding? Many of us have done just that, but the latest whitetail research has found...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
His Rutcation Wasn’t All That
When Brian Fultz walked into Rick Busse’s taxidermy studio in Piqua, Ohio, on Dec. 11, he was unprepared for the man’s response.
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