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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
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...
BY: MARK MELOTIK
A Va. Public-Land Giant
A 200-inch buck on heavily hunted public land? That lofty dream became a stunning reality last fall for longtime Virginia outdoorsman Dennis Lawson, 54. But...
BY: MARK MELOTIK
Going Semi-Guided For Deer
Several years ago I was bowhunting Kansas with a couple buddies, and a few days in we were on the trail of my friend Jared’s hard-hit buck. As we followed the...
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