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Reuniting With A Jaw-Dropping VA Droptine | By Mark Melotik

Opening morning of Virginia’s 2023 muzzleloader season will likely never be forgotten by Surry County hunter Jake Berryman. On that date—Nov. 4, 2023—the 17-year-old laid claim to the largest buck ever taken by the hard-hunting Berryman family, an 18-point bruiser that is now the state’s 11th largest whitetail in BTR’s blackpowder Irregular category. READ MORE

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Tom Hamel Buck
Tom Hamel Buck

By Mike Handley

It might be impossible to determine the extent of one deer’s effect upon the economy in Republic County, Kan., a couple of years ago, but there’s no doubt a substantial amount of cash changed hands when photographs of the animal hit the I... READ MORE


Johnny King Buck
Johnny King Buck

By Mike Handley

The two men approached the downed buck cautiously, from different sides. Johnny King’s bullets had dropped the enormous whitetail, but Brad Heisz, who’d answered his cousin’s desperate call for help, had obligingly administered the ... READ MORE


Stuart Everett Buck
Stuart Everett Buck

By Rusty Johnson

Stuart Everett almost quit deer in 2014. After three seasons of pursuing a photogenic whitetail with a rack that seemed to double in points each year, he got an eyeblink of an opportunity and never fired a shot. The episode left him keenly aware of h... READ MORE


Travis Cockburn Buck
Travis Cockburn Buck

By Jason Hoffard

Travis Cockburn winced whenever he heard a gunshot during last November’s firearms season in Illinois. He, his brother and father weren’t the only hunters in Williamson County who knew a very large buck was hanging around their 80-acre hu... READ MORE


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