
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
Hunting the Milesville Monster
Claiming North Carolina's Number 3 spot in BTR's irregular category for centerfire rifle, 24-year-old Preston Allred outdid himself with an impressive...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
When It's so Cold It Hurts
When Ben Smith retrieved a few trail camera images of a 10-pointer in 2022, he knew it had the potential to be something special, but his resolve to let it...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
175" TN Typical with a Recurve!
You can count on one hand the BTR entries for recurve-felled bucks in Tennessee, but DeWayne Spann still sits atop that short list, and his 175-inch buck is...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Nearly 30 Inches Wide
Probably the widest whitetail to come out of the 2016 season was arrowed in Darke County, Ohio, by a man who'd once given up hunting altogether.
Gary Douglas...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Who Bowhunts from the Ground?
Minutes before Dillon Boone pushed himself up from the ground in order to get a shot at the monstrous whitetail sauntering into bow range, he’d been stewing...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
THREE-OH-OH!
Kansas yielded its second-ever, 300-inch whitetail during the 2018 season, the first actually felled by a hunter. (The other, a victim to EHD, was found dead...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
No Consonants Needed
How is it that many graying turkey hunters might not be able to hear his or her spouse ask a question from the other end of the sofa, but they can still...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Spitting Distance in Saskatchewan
Cauy Hultman didn’t intend to give the coyotes on his grandfather’s land a free meal last October, but that’s what happened when his arrow clipped only one...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Ground Swellage
Maybe it's a good thing that Michael Schumann and his sons, Dillon and Matthew, thought they were hunting a 180-inch buck on their ground in Randolph County,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Seeing Double
Bill Funk saw two world-class whitetails, side by side, while hunting in Alberta last fall, but only one was real.
That also was the case with the bow target...
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