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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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