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...
First Bow Buck Joins Club 200
When the first whitetail bow buck of your life measures over 200 inches, where do you go from there? Not a question most of us will wrestle with, but it’s the...
The Banshee and the Buck
How long does it take for the woods to settle after a banshee-doe alerts the entire state to the presence of a suspicious lump in a tree?
About 30 minutes,...
Tagged Out in Two Hours
The day before Kentucky's 2015 rifle season opened, Alvin Hoover made himself a ground blind by stacking hay bales inside the tree line next to a field...
In Praise of Buckspeak
Joe Blanton would almost rather discover he'd left his bullets at home than find out he'd gone afield without his trusty grunt call. He uses the contraption...
Friends are Sometimes Better than Trail Cams
A phone call from a friend, an unplanned detour and a stomachache combined in 2013 to force a Richland, Indiana, deer hunter into paying for taxidermy.
Dean...
By Any Other Name
It isn't uncommon for enormous bucks to gain nicknames, whether bestowed before or after they're dead. But they're usually named for a distinguishing...
190” Texas Tank
A fine example that giant free-range whitetails reside in northeast Texas can be found in Cody Nicholson’s pre-rut success last year on a new permission...
How to Christen a Crossbow
John Higdon is a quick study.
An hour and a half after sighting-in a new crossbow last fall, he was pointing it at a living target and slipping his finger...
Bluegrass Shooter Buck
Lifelong New Yorker Robert Smith Jr. made the nine-hour drive to Kentucky for the last four days of the state’s 2022 muzzleloader season and harvested his...
Trading Camo for Orange
If I wait more than four days to pull the memory card from my backyard trail camera during the redwing blackbird migration, I’ll have to sift between 3,000...
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