Big Buck 411
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
Record Buck from Public Land
Joseph Holloman of Quitman, Miss., and his buddy, Brian Jordan, were sharing a 38,000-acre tract of public land with about 400 other hunters during a special...
BY: MARK MELOTIK
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...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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,...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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: MIKE HANDLEY
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...
BY: PATRICK DUNNING
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...
BY: MIKE HANDLEY
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...
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