
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
What to Do When You're After a Camera-shy Buck
Brandon Sheets grew up hunting arrowheads and fishing on his family's property in Pickaway County, Ohio, but he only started hunting deer there about four...


BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Lightning and Kansas
In the world of second lightning strikes, it might happen a little more frequently among deer hunters who live and play in Kansas. If you shoot one good one,...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
New Volunteer State Record!
Charles Strickland harvested three deer with two bolts on the opening morning of Tennessee’s 2022 archery season during a quota hunt in Davidson County. The...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Big Indy Buck Down
Luck. Fate. Whatever you want to call it, Grant Seitz was in the right place at the right time, twice in two days.
He saw this 20-point buck midday from the...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Buckaholic
If Gregory Perry can be persuaded to join the Caldwell, Texas, chapter of Deer Hunters Anonymous, now’s the time.
The 32-year-old engineer and father of two...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Carpe Diem (Seize the Moment)
For Emily Schaad, the iron was hot on Oct. 10, 2020, and boy did she strike!
The Stockport, Ohio, huntress had been hoping to get a shot at a camera-shy buck...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Goofy Comes of Age
Quaker Boy Calls’ pro-staffer Greg Gershon shot a buck in 2019 that had been on his radar for four years.
He and the others who are part of the 1,400-acre...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Thanks, Boss
After seeing a humongous buck while glassing a soybean field in July, Justin Mooney secured permission from his boss, who owns the adjacent 20-acre block, to...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
She Got Heads, He Got Tails
Iowa’s tag lottery determined whether Taylor Byers or her husband, Caleb, would be behind the trigger when the 2019 muzzleloader season opened on Oct. 12.
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