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: 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,...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Reaping What You Sow
Before Brook Current created food plots on the land that sucked up his life’s savings, he was fretting and worried his “piece of heaven” was more like a...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
When a Tree isn’t a Tree
Darrin Dawes’s back yard in Arnaudville, Louisiana, is 2 miles long and 60 yards wide. Deer cross through those 25 acres all the time, but he almost never...
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...
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