Big Buck 411
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...
Should I Go or Should I Stay?
The voices inside Blake Wilson’s head lasted for nearly three months.
From the moment the 28-year-old bowhunter from Rison, Arkansas, retrieved a trail...
Halloween Treat
Halloween has long been one of the Buckeye State’s biggest yielders of bodacious whitetails, but that’s not why Levi Lease chose to go hunting last Oct. 31.
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Illinois ‘Elk’
Had Timothy Nichols not seen the No. 1 buck on his wish list, not to mention other bucks and a hot doe they all very much wanted, he might have gone home...
Alone in the Deep Freeze
Mike Stanoikovich never thought he’d be hunting alone on Jan. 7, 2017. The plan was for him and his 13-year-old son, Jack, to share the ground blind, but the...
Public Land Bruiser
Landin Hall doesn’t have to hunt public land. Neither does he have to cross state lines to find bucks that’ll blow his taxidermy budget.
In 2020, however,...
Counting Eggs
Counting unhatched chickens isn't always a bad thing.
The moon, wind and the following day's weather forecast convinced Trent Siegle to take advantage of a...
This One was a 160 without the Junk
Jakob Begley was crestfallen when the whitetail at the top of his wish list would come no closer than 70 yards the one day he actually saw the animal in...
Against a Snowy Backdrop
Three seasons after his aging grandfather shot his last whitetail in 2013, Doug Kisamore connected with his best from the same backyard stand.
Nobody sat in...
198" Felled in Arkansas
Stella Sims holds Arkansas' #7 spot in BTR's irregular category for compound bow after felling this 198 7/8-inch bruiser of a buck last November, and it's...
Maine Event
For what it’s worth: A 15-foot-long canoe can ferry 700 pounds.
Wendell Wentworth of Washington, Maine, accounted for 180 of those pounds in the low-riding...
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