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The Other Red Meat
“HOLY DEER!” That’s not precisely what Jim Fulks said when he walked up on the drop-tined monster lying on its side in the snow. But it’s close enough. Like so many Canadians who love hunting, Jim had often dreamed of being in a snowy place where trees stitch together crop fields when a giant buck emerges from the seam. In that wintry dreamscape, the silence is shattered by a rifle blast, and the mighty buck falls. Jim had seen it play out in his mind’s eye, but he never really believed it would happen. Jim is no stranger to large-bodied, four-footed animals. In fact, he’s surrounded by them on a daily basis. Still, the cattle rancher from Waskatenau, Alberta, was not prepared for the beefy hoofer he encountered on Nov. 28, 2003. This bull of the woods turned out to be the largest irregular-antlered whitetail taken in Canada that year. The 32-year-old cattleman works hard alongside his brother, Stanley, to carry on the family business. They work five “quarters,” one quarter being 160 acres. They grow silage barley and, in fall, combine some of the grain for feed. When the deer season opens, Jim turns his attention to the other red meat ... and antlers. He often l...

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Persistent Archer Goes Public
Scott Fowler could hardly believe his eyes. An 11-point buck was slowly making its way to the edge of the woods across the Missouri soybean field. A mature animal, it took a few minutes to check out the deer that were already feeding and sort out the variou...

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Like a Buck on a String
Russ Nobbe’s mind was working a mile a minute. It was 9:55 a.m. on Nov. 17, 2005. The archer, 22 feet high in a treestand above the forest floor of a heavily timbered tract in east central Illinois’ Monroe County, was busily assessing nearby trees. When he ...

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King of the Hill
Last September, my wife changed my computer screensaver to read, “Tim, you are awesome and I hope you score big on your hunt this year! Love you, SK.” So when the alarm buzzed at 4:30 a.m. on the cool, crisp morning of Oct. 28, 2005, I was confident in her ...

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God Smiled On Me
It was a hot, sunny November day in west Tennessee. The mosquitoes were out, and it was about 80 degrees. I had two hours before my 13-year-old daughter’s basketball game, and I was itching to go deer hunting. Most people hunt for food here. With all the hu...

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Pure Thrill
My dad has long been an avid deer hunter, but it was not until my sophomore year of high school that I fully comprehended the excitement and pure joy of hunting. On opening day of the 2002 rifle season, Dad and I sat in a ground blind overlooking a food pl...

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Buckmasters Executive Editor

Ken Piper / Buckmasters Editor

Ken Piper

Buckmasters editor Ken Piper grew up hunting whitetails with his father, uncles and cousins on public land in Blair County, Pennsylvania. He earned a journalism degree from Penn State in 1987 and joined the Buckmasters team in 2000. "Thanks to Buckmasters, I’ve hunted some of the best places in the country, but I’ll never forget that public-land, blue-collar hunters are the heart of our sport," he says. "Hopefully we can all remember the simple joy of taking any deer and spending time with friends and family. That’s what I strive for in the pages of Buckmasters."