
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
190-inch Pa. Public Land Buck
Ronald Bencinic's 190-inch 7x7 with double drop tines is the second-largest whitetail ever felled in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, according to Buckmasters...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Miscalculation
Dennis Dahlke would rather go home empty-handed than affix his tag to an adolescent buck, which is why he's been able to paper his wall with record book...


BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Doghouse Deer
Josh Baslee can tell you what the inside of a doghouse is like, and not because he's a nuisance animal control expert.
The 39-year-old from Osawatomie, Kan.,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Rise and Shine
Chase Jones chose the wrong day to stay in bed.
The 12-year-old is normally eager to join his father, Mike, in a deer stand. On Nov. 26, however, just five...

BY: PATRICK DUNNING
One Last Siesta For This KS Giant
The last time Anthony Callihan posed for a photo with a buck alongside his grandfather, he was a mere six years old with wide eyes for his family’s tradition....

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Have Hour, Will Hunt
Nobody owns the shed antlers of the buck Stan Ethredge shot in 2017, and it wasn’t because the squirrels ate them.
The nearly 230-inch whitetail was wearing...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
26-point Swan Song
Two years ago, Barb Putz Sanders put her shingle in the closet. After 50 years of plying her trade as a taxidermist, she walked away from the bench,...

BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Doe City Yields County Record in North Carolina
Things didn't go as planned when Warren Cooper took a tenant to his father's property in Franklin County, Virginia, on Nov. 10. The itinerary was...
