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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
Kansas Anime
William Cantillon hadn't been in his deer stand an hour on Dec. 5, 2015, when he saw a peculiar buck that gave him brain-freeze.
"I'd hunted that same spot...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Little Mossy Horns Sets County Record in Ohio
Alex Wright wasn’t surprised when his uncle said he couldn’t hunt where a trail camera had photographed the obscenely huge buck the man had reluctantly...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Cartridge Crisis is About to Get Real
For a week and a half in August 2024, Grainger Pollert swallowed more saliva than he could’ve spit during a lifetime of sitting in a dentist’s chair.
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
On Top of the World, at Age 10
How many 10-year-olds manage to tick off two bucket-list items in a span of one second?
Ella Perkins did it — taking her first buck AND breaking the 200-inch...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Sweet Spot
Drew Miller always thought his odds of taking a giant whitetail were best on his 500-acre lease in Oklahoma, which is less than an hour's drive from his home...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
2020 Whitetail Shuffles Michigan Records
The state of Michigan gained a new No. 3 (irregular) whitetail among rifle harvests last season.
The name beside the impressive 16-pointer is Tom Fogarty Jr....
The What If Buck
What if I hadn’t booked this Alberta hunt? What if I hadn’t adjusted my scope? What if Russell and I hadn’t been at camp when Will and his guide, Sharky, came...
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...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
The Bean Field Buck
Mel Johnson, the Illinois bowhunter whose 1965 buck remains one of the longest-reigning world records in the BTR, died in May at the age of 84.
Mel arrowed...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
Curtain Falls, Despite Curtain
Bowhunting from ground blinds with curtains has one drawback: Curtains.
True, many homemade blinds don’t have them, or the windows might have sliding doors...
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