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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...
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...
Second Chance
Bowhunting’s newest world record was not as smart as Pavlov’s dogs.
Barb Severson of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, shot the deer – the largest ever arrowed by a...
Grunt Three Times
If a bowhunter grunts in a forest and a buck is around to hear it, does that mean it’s working?
If Austin Nord wasn’t already a fan of grunt calls prior to...
No Bangs for this Okie Buck
If Darren Ambrose had been hunting with a compound instead of a longbow on Nov. 18, 2009, chances are he wouldn’t have had an opportunity for a do-over.
He...
Wall of Tines
There's nothing quite like getting access to a hunting property and finding out it has a big buck on it.
Last August when John Totzke received permission to...
A Christmas Story
Cheri Hillebrandt's 2015 Christmas present might not have been wrapped in pretty paper and ribbons of blue, but it wore a very big bow.
The gift from her...
Cow-free Zone Yields Bruiser
The property Nate Boeckman hunts in Kansas holds more cattle than deer, and there's one less whitetail following the 2021 season.
His friend's 174 acres is...
Close Encounters
While not everyone has the opportunity to target and pursue a world-class buck, we can all appreciate the frustration of having a shooter in range and not...
Ninety Inches in Two Seasons
Chad Campbell first became acquainted with the deer he shot in 2024 two years earlier, when it was a 20-inch-wide 8-pointer with a few flyers. He was in a...
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