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...
By Any Other Name
Keegan Schmitt shot the wrong deer on Sept. 18.
The bowhunter from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, thought he was about to shoot Sweet Sixteen, a 16-point buck over...
Over 200 Inches of Canadian Antler
After four years of dedication, Evan Proctor finally closed the chapter on a 218-inch Manitoba whitetail buck he's pursued through countless encounters and...
Mount Replacement Takes Six Years
Randy Hayes of Peterson, Alabama, never expected to take another whitetail to a taxidermist, not after a tornado gutted his home and carried 15 irreplaceable...
Making Hay While School’s Out
Fourteen-year-old Hunter Windsor needs an eighth day of the week whenever he’s aching to trade football and baseball gear for camouflage. The high school...
Click Your Boots Together Three Times ...
The fifth time Harold Jones drove from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Kansas, he wasn’t headed for public land or to hunt with an outfitter. He’d done each twice,...
Hunt for the Headless Buck
Dustin Procario lost his head in 2018, but he got better.
Eventually.
The hunter from Louisville, Ohio, was over the moon prior to that year’s deer opener....
The Moral: Stay Out Until the Wind is Right
Tom Allen likes to nickname the whitetails on his Most Wanted list.
202 Reasons to Smile
Your first deer is often the most memorable whether it has antlers or not. You remember where you were, who was there and how excited it made you feel. It's...
Worth the Hike, Even in the Dark
Less than a year away from a college degree in land surveying and mapping sciences, Leo Van Beck learned one of his most useful lessons off campus last fall.
Antique Store Buck Cracks Top-10 List of Typicals
If the telegraph were still in use today, the nation’s deer sleuths would be slinging a lot of clicks about an old mount recently rescued from a Pennsylvania...
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