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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...
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...
Mixing Work and Pleasure
Taxidermists get to see and work with a lot of big bucks. They also put their hands on bucks of every age and antler configuration imaginable. That knowledge...
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...
Massive Kansas Deadhead
14-year-old Bryson Allen found a massive 238-inch Kansas deadhead on May 18 while fishing Clarks Creek with friends. Although the young man hasn’t harvested...
Youth Hunter Fells 200” in Michigan
On the second morning of Michigan’s 2023 youth weekend, 15-year-old Dylan Meyer harvested the state’s third largest whitetail in BTR’s shotgun category on a...
Transplanted Bowhunter Discovers Kansas Hype is True
When Chad Carney's job took him from North Carolina to Kansas, he immediately started searching for places to hunt. Knowing only that the Sunflower State...
Eight Hours from Heaven
Before last fall, Anders Blixt had no idea he lives only eight hours from Heaven.
The Virginian had a hunch deer hunting's pearly gates were somewhere in...
Can You Hear Me Now?
Ben Humphries might not have been on a rooftop, but he did plenty of shouting on Dec. 17, 2016.
The bowhunter from Ozark, Missouri, used every last lithium...
259" in Ohio
18-year-old Carson Putnam has been on a roll the last couple of years, claiming Ohio's #1 spot in BTR's Centerfire Rifle category after harvesting this...
Better To Be Lucky Than Good
Carl Lucky III didn't have an answer when his grandsons, 12 and 10 years old, asked him if he ever killed a giant buck, would he holler?
"I said, 'Luke, I...
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