
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
From Wow to Blam in Two Minutes
Retrieving 25 images of a fantastic buck from his trail cameras in July and August of 2013 inspired 23-year-old Kyle Robertson to take up bowhunting. So...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Homeowners with Benefits
Before closing on their new Kentucky home and land last September, Jimmy and Scarlett Tapp put out trail cameras. A day later, they began amassing photos of...

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.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Scott County, Indiana’s Best Typical by Shotgun
Gary Cole isn’t exactly a trophy hunter, but neither is he a meat hunter. There’s no point in striving for the latter when your floor freezer is on the fritz.

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Good Things Come
Travis Stites of Phillipsburg, Kansas, knew the family ground he was hunting was home to at least one great buck. He'd seen it once on the hoof and in trail...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
In Praise of Grunt Calls
The third-largest whitetail felled during the 2018 season came out of Indiana.
At 254 4/8 inches, Adrian Luntzel’s buck is the Hoosier State’s new crossbow...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Teamwork
One of the biggest whitetails felled in the South in 2016 came out of the Peach State, proof that two heads (and guns) are sometimes better than one.
One of...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Why You Should Hunt Turkeys
Star-spangling a longbeard's head might have been the reason Mike Barnes went to Labette County, Kansas, in May 2014. But he also took the opportunity to...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Whac-a-Buck
Billy Graham of Arkansas was within a hair's breadth of pounding a buck that would rival his career-best when a much bigger one popped out of its hole on...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
My Pronouns Are White and Tail
Justin Buchanan’s Crawford County 14-pointer made rounds in outdoor media because of the Georgia whitetail’s rack and apparent lack of male reproductive...
