
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 Bet a Guy without Seeing His Cam Pics
Patrick Woodruff’s first crossbow buck earned him $1,000 from friends who’d wagered he wouldn’t score.
The bets were placed during the group’s annual Labor...

BY: MARK MELOTIK
Kentucky 8-Pointer Is New Best-Ever
Bowhunters live for those up-close, in-your-face encounters that make neck hackles stand up straight. But how close is too close? On Sept 12, 2024, Kentucky’s...

BY: MARK MELOTIK
Grow Your Own Big Bucks
Tired of all the extra effort required to beat the crowd to the best public-land hunting? If so, it might be time to buy your own chunk of deer hunting land.

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Another 200” Falls in Kansas
Chadd Lemaster could barely make out the silhouette of this 19-pointer at last light of Kansas’ 2023 muzzleloader opener, despite the 9X10 standing at 15...

BY: MARK MELOTIK
An Illinois Halloween Treat
South Louisiana’s Janie Milioto bagged her first deer at the tender age of 6 and has been getting after it ever since. The latest example of her drive,...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Big Doe Down
Frustrated from the apparent exodus of bucks at the private chunk he usually hunts, 26-year-old Brandon Rhodes located some interesting ground in Bankhead...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
A 10 on the Sphincter Scale
Nobody knows better than Jason McKenzie that when a man's tectonic plates shift, only a giant whitetail can stop the quake.
The hunter from Shongaloo, La.,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
New Runner-up Crossbow Record
By almost anyone’s yardstick, the deer Brennan Morris shot this season was a prime candidate to be culled in 2019. Few practitioners of QDM allow a mature...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
In Praise of Buckspeak
Joe Blanton would almost rather discover he'd left his bullets at home than find out he'd gone afield without his trusty grunt call. He uses the contraption...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
After Eight Years
Whenever Wayne Cox heads home to North Carolina after deer hunting in Kansas, he has fewer blank scoresheets in his measuring kit. The ones with numbers...
