
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
Golden Oldie from Minnesota
Alfred Matter had to have wondered why his father was waving at him. The boy was driving a tractor, cultivating sunflowers, when he spotted the signal that...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
223-Incher in The Sunflower State
On the final day of the 2021 Kansas deer season, 32-year-old Chase Wells located a big typical 10-pointer. The deer was making its way into a bean field when...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Oh Wow
An emergency medical technician in Brookhaven, Mississippi, carried his own personal defibrillator during the fall of 2017, and it required no electricity.
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BY: PATRICK DUNNING
Buckeye Beauty
Jake Whiteman isn't out to etch his name in a record book, and until Ohio's 2022 shotgun opener he was a self-proclaimed freezer filler. Does, button bucks,...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
What's Up With the Southern Rut?
Why does the South's rut occur later than in the Midwest and Northeast, where breeding periods tend to spike in early to mid-November?
Truth is, the rut...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Hook on a Feeling
Dusty Nelms might be three weeks away from finally learning what his 2019 Oklahoma buck scores, at least by the B&C yardstick. Since Nov. 26, he’s received...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
‘Strange Day’
Michael Montgomery was at wit's end by the time his bowstring hummed in 2014.
After nearly an hour of watching and waiting for the buck of his dreams to...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Portion Control Does the Trick
Ellen Turner has learned that a little bit of corn will go a long way, and there's no need to fatten raccoons between sittings.
Whenever the kitchen and...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Worth an ‘I Told You So’
When Teri Brown phoned her husband, Dick, to tell him she'd shot the buck over which she'd been obsessing for three months, it was not to ask for help.
Dick...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
First Buck During an East Wind
63-year-old David Linn started deer hunting six years ago in management areas and reservoirs near Gas City, Indiana. He went six seasons without filling a...
