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Entries for December 2018
Yellow is the New Camo
By Mike Handley
Hunter Hastings has not disclosed whether having a backyard playhouse that doubles as a deer stand affects the value of real estate in Chanute, Kansas. The 46-year-old manager of a specialty welding company used to lay his hat in a home with 10 huntable acres. He could see his stand from the kitchen window. The 2018 season was his last to hunt deer... READ MORE
What Noise?
By Mike Handley
Some outdoorsmen think their hunts are ruined if they inadvertently step on a stick or fail to stifle a sneeze or cough. In their minds, such are the noises that send deer packing. Chris Flanders isn’t wound that tight. Less than four hours after he and his brother, Alan, wrestled a 20-foot-tall ladder stand into place and cut virgin shooting... READ MORE
Déjà vu with a Different Ending
By Mike Handley
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 to inflict them. In 2016, the kid from Corydon and his mentor, Jeremy McCarty, gained hunting rights to acreage in south-central Iowa. They scouted, hung stands and put out trail cameras ... READ MORE
Coming Attraction
By Mike Handley
Taylor Drury has been deflating whitetails since she was 12 years old. Last season, the 23-year-old arrowed her biggest ever, an Iowa buck wearing nearly 190 inches of bone. Taylor might be best known as the social media face of Drury Outdoors, the company her father, Mark, and Uncle Terry founded in the late 1980s. She was hunting the family farm ... READ MORE