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...
Public Land via Boat
With a precious couple of inches separating the gunwales from the water, Troy Thomas was thinking he needed a bigger boat.
That his buddies Matt Medley and...
Destination: Deer
Contrary to popular belief, people who book hunts with outfitters rarely take home 200-inch bucks. Not wild ones anyway.
Lodge owners can manage only for...
Bowhunting an Internet Legend
One of the first rules of hunting mature bucks? Hunt where they live. That was the thinking of Arkansas resident Josh Hogue when he began hunting a stretch of...
Shoot Happens!
Twenty-year-old Brett Petitt had all but thrown in the towel on his 2022-23 deer season. In every encounter he had with a mature deer, it either wouldn't...
The Not-Squirrel That Didn’t Get Away
Chase Aldridge spent more time looking at deer he couldn’t shoot than the one that wound up taking his arrow on Nov. 2.
Xen Moment
29-year-old Xen McAllister's Fayette County Freak was less than an inch shy of cracking Buckmasters Trophy Records' top-10 in the irregular, compound bow...
Change of Plans
How one trail camera photo turned a meat hunter into a trophy chaser.
Meat hunter. It’s a label we all should wear proudly considering the whole idea of...
Public Land Giant in Illinois
One of the finest whitetails Illinois taxidermist Matt Cheek will mount this year will be the one he almost didn’t shoot on Nov. 1.
If the archery permits...
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.
168" Hoosier on Public Land
Bow hunting, like baseball, is a game of failure. Major-league hitters with .300 batting averages fail 70% of their at-bats and still enjoy careers worthy of...
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