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: 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...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Near-State-Record Buck Causes Whiplash In Kentucky
David Whitaker might be responsible for a man’s wearing a neck brace in Jackson County, Kentucky, but it’s doubtful an insurance claim will be filed.
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Census Taker
You could call Steve Matt of Eureka Springs, Ark., a census taker, even though he doesn't carry a clipboard and knock on doors.
He collects most of his data...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Mistaken Identity
Corey Bacon is usually pretty good at judging bucks by their cover, but he was dead wrong last year.
The 28-year-old from Lebo, Kansas, mistakenly thought...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Two Years from Poof to Pow
Blake Whelchel says the nearly 200-inch Oklahoma buck he shot in 2016 was between 20 and 30 inches bigger the previous year, and he has the trail camera...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Opening Day to Remember
Knowing whitetails will walk over corn to Hoover up acorns, Dylan Martin figured he had two weeks before the unusual buck on his Most Wanted list went AWOL....
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