
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
Never a Dull Moment
Basketball legend Michael Jordan once said, “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, (and) others make it happen.”

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Scoring Matters
Of the nearly 20,000 entries Buckmasters Trophy Records has recorded since its inception 29 years ago, only 13 mainframe 3x3s have met our minimum...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
A Crown of Thorns
Jeff Humphrey arrowed this multiple forked-droptined beast from a 180 Realtree blind in September 2022. It's the 10th largest crossbow-felled whitetail ever...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
One of 2015's New World Records
Lois Jenkins's boyfriend, Tim Crabtree, knew a world-class whitetail roamed his hunting area. He believes he shot the deer's brother in January 2012, when...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Shaken, Not Stirred
James Edwards knows what it's like to be tased.
The bowhunter from Rocky Mount, Virginia, thought he was immune to buck fever, but he suffered its effects...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Kentucky’s best Perfect from 2017
You’d think a sustained, countywide effort to wipe out feral hogs might push resident whitetails – particularly mature bucks – into another zip code. You...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Not the 5x5 He Expected
Steven Lynn of Junction City, Kentucky, spends more time harvesting beans and cutting hay than he sets aside for hunting whitetails. I'm not sure how the...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Biting the Dust
Any self-respecting bowhunter can make an 8-yard shot, right?
Scott McNown can.
And many archers can thread 4-inch holes to put a broadhead precisely where...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Daddy Sang Tenor
Some men squeak when they see rats, snakes or spiders. It takes a dead buck - a big one - for Bill Nadeau to sing tenor.
That said, the deer hunter from...
