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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
Curiosity Killed the Buck?
Mike Every will never put on another face mask without thinking about the day it almost robbed him of the chance at the largest whitetail he’d ever seen.
The...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Lesser Stand
When Jeremy Way found both sheds off the buck he'd been hunting for two years, he was thrilled to learn it had survived the 2014 season. But when the...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Backyard Bounty
When James Goldman unwrapped a new trail camera for Christmas in 2016, his father told him he could test-drive it in his backyard. The elder Goldman had been...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
There’s No Place Like Home. Wait …
John Hatt always thought the grass was greener in Kansas. Not only is the Sunflower State one of the top yielders of monstrous whitetails, but the archery...
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....
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