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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...
Déjà vu with a Different Ending
Eighteen-year-old Brooks Jacobsen hopes he’ll one day be a veterinarian capable of stanching wounds. For now, the student at Wayne Community School is happy...
Kentucky Gains New Xbow Record and Runner-up
Accustomed to calling his own shots, Tim Hannah stepped out of his comfort zone on Nov. 7 to put his faith in an older buddy who wanted badly to re-introduce...
Wide Load
Some deer are just too big to be trussed atop a four-wheeler.
Karen Little and her husband, Allen, gave up trying on Nov. 20, 2016. No amount of lifting,...
Ohio’s New Recurve Record
Both good and bad news came out of Logan Glassburn’s Oct. 18, 2020, deer hunt.
After sharing the good news with his wife, Morgan, which took considerably...
A Virginia Giant’s Fatal Mistake
Virginia’s Jessica Burks will likely never forget Thanksgiving day of 2023. It’s because Thursday, Nov. 19 found her in a treestand hunting a buck she had...
Opening-Day Ambush
For Kentucky’s Travis Mays, the third time really was the charm. Last Sept. 2, Mays, 31, closed out a three-year quest for an outsized Bluegrass State buck by...
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...
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