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Entries for July 2017
No Time to Spare
By Mike Handley
What began as just another sweaty afternoon stint in a shooting house for William Vickers ended 22 deer later with a puff of smoke. Because he was baking inside an enclosed box blind, the 36-year-old engineer from Marianna, Arkansas, didn't realize how cool it was beyond his four walls. He'd unwittingly chosen to babysit a food plot on the coolest ... READ MORE
Not All Rumors are Unfounded
By Mike Handley
Had Tom Wingate not retrieved trail camera photographs of an exceptional mainframe 8-pointer in 2015, he might’ve dismissed the following year’s rumors of a monster roaming the farmland near his 450-acre lease on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He was smitten as soon as he saw those nighttime images. “It was the biggest buck I had... READ MORE
Teamwork
By Mike Handley
One of the biggest whitetails felled in the South in 2016 came out of the Peach State, proof that two heads (and guns) are sometimes better than one. One of those heads belongs to Shannon Sledge, who owns a dairy farm near Ty Ty, Georgia. The other rested on the shoulders of a friend who’s also an employee, Skippy White. Skippy had been keepi... READ MORE
Worth the Hike
By Mike Handley
Shannon Alvis shot one of the largest public land bucks ever recorded from Alabama on the last day of the Black Warrior Wildlife Management Area's three-day, mid-December rifle hunt. He can thank a buddy for telling him about the hunt, his intuition for choosing the perfect place to hang a stand, and a doe for leading the giant whitetail to slaught... READ MORE