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...
Fake News
Word travels fast among deer hunters, but the news, while plausible, isn’t always reliable.
The Last Tag-Holder
Pennsylvania hunter Jason Kornbau's first impression of a buck his trail camera photographed in the summer of 2014 was that its rack was goofy. The deer was...
What a Difference a Year Makes
Mature bucks' antlers might grow half an inch or more a day during the spring and summer months, but that doesn't mean they'll double in size from one year...
Wild Game Medley
Just a few days after bemoaning his bad luck to his grandmother, Kansas deer hunter Lane Sadler got a forkful of venison to go with his crow.
The 18-year-old...
Far from Secret
Imagine waking up to see your best-kept secret — not just word of it, but actual photos — plastered all over Facebook.
That actually happened to Matthew...
No More Deer Drought
David Fischer of Georgetown, Indiana, is accustomed to seeing deer hunters roaming the public lands he hunts. But that's all he saw during the 2014 season.
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The Turtle and the Unsmelling Buck
Unless they enjoy being human metronomes, deer hunters in Nebraska and Kansas - the two windiest states in the U.S. - do not scale skinny trees. Nor do they...
Virginia’s No. 2 Rifle Buck
Austin Sturgill and his family were certain the giant whitetail he shot on Thanksgiving morning - his second buck for 2011 - was the one that had set tongues...
Photoshopped? Nope.
The New Year’s Eve (2019) arrest of four poachers near the Galleria mall in Hoover, Alabama, opened doors for B.J. Davis.
After the incident with the illegal...
Never Sing the Blues Until the Sun Goes Down
Bob Dieball had already drawn and let down his bow once, when the Kansas buck he so desperately wanted veered sharply toward the doe it desperately wanted.
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