
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: MARK MELOTIK
Mushroom Hunt Leads To Tall-Tined Treasure
It was back on April 15, 2022, when Ohio’s Joel Drake found a monster of a Buckeye State deadhead. And ever since, friends and family had been asking just how...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Three Clicks and a Boom
The very year Matt Kelly joined a renowned deer hunting club an hour and a half from home, he shot a bruiser whitetail on property that didn’t cost him a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Hunting Naked, Unintentionally
While some people might have nightmares about addressing a full classroom or coworkers while butt-naked, Tony Brown is more apt to dream about facing a...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
No Truer Words
When Steven Everett purchased 130 acres in Logan County, Oklahoma, in 2015, the previous landowner told him the property held some big bucks.
Deer season had...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
200-Inch State Record Taken on Fort Knox
For the past two years, Kentucky state trooper Colt Stumbo has tagged along with his buddies for a quota gun hunt on Fort Knox’s military reservation in...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
What Noise?
Some outdoorsmen think their hunts are ruined if they inadvertently step on a stick or fail to stifle a sneeze or cough. In their minds, such are the noises...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Buck on the Run
Dani Thomas killed her biggest buck to date in the rain from a hay wagon in October 2022. This Licking County Giant posted over 11 inches of irregular points...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
A Break in the Weather
A buck called Andre the Giant twice cheated death in 2014, escaping both a bullet and a broadhead. The whitetail's luck didn't hold the next season.
Brandon...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Process of Elimination
After three years of losing a game of hide and seek with an incredible buck he'd seen in 2010, Thomas Waters decided the only remaining option was to hunt...
