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Entries for January 2021
Georgian Gets Second Chance, a Year Later
By Mike Handley
Colby Johnson had only a couple of hours to spare when he drove 30 miles to sit in his ground blind on the morning of Nov. 4, 2020, but that’s all he needed to salve his wounded pride. The experienced deer hunter from Hartsfield, Georgia, flat missed a giant whitetail the previous season. He was shocked when there was neither deer nor sign on... READ MORE
Keep Tabs on Does
By Mike Handley
Derek DeVader learned a valuable lesson this fall. If you’re keeping tabs on a mature Kansas whitetail that keeps disappearing in November, you can bet it’s ladies night somewhere else.
If you want the buck, you’d better find the does.
The 36-year-old farmer and father of three found them by accident in 2020, and he was rewarded... READ MORE
Big Buck Trumps Couples Counseling
By Mike Handley
For a month and a half in 2020, Dillon Feland was not a contender for husband of the year. His life consisted of eating, sleeping, crunching numbers at his father’s company, and social-distancing in a pop-up blind on a lease 30 miles outside of Oklahoma City. While everyone else was obsessing over coronavirus and who would be the country's co... READ MORE
New Runner-up Crossbow Record
By Mike Handley
By almost anyone’s yardstick, the deer Brennan Morris shot this season was a prime candidate to be culled in 2019. Few practitioners of QDM allow a mature buck with four spindly points on one side and two on the other to spread its genes. Yet those who hunt the 3,000 acres in Richland Parish, Louisiana, were content to ignore it, a decision e... READ MORE
Far from Secret
By Mike Handley
Imagine waking up to see your best-kept secret — not just word of it, but actual photos — plastered all over Facebook. That actually happened to Matthew Brunswick, a 35-year-old K9 officer for the Hancock County, Ohio, Sheriff’s Department. Afterward, he could only feign ignorance. The great revelation occurred in late October 202... READ MORE