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Entries for June 2019
Not a Bad Start for a Bowhunter
By Rob Meade
Derrick Davis had high hopes for Ohio’s 2012 deer season. He and his father-in-law, Tim Baird, had collected trail camera photographs of a giant buck they’d nicknamed Mr. Crabs. The tall-tined whitetail had posed for their camera four times during the 2011 season, but he was seen only once during the November rut. In 2012, Derrick and T... READ MORE
Plan B
By Mike Handley
That moment when you realize your blind smells like a Lynyrd Skynyrd song … When Steve Whitelock got a whiff of the pop-up blind he’d planned to erect between two of his stationary bow stands, he changed his mind. He’d hoped that by setting up between his regular stands, he’d be in a better position to intercept the Moby Di... READ MORE
Pleasantly Surprised
By Mike Handley
Indiana bowyer can thank a tree for blocking his shot at the world’s largest forkhorn. It’s a pretty safe bet that he wasn’t thinking about deer hunters when George Will, the Pulitzer-winning newspaper and magazine columnist, once said “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven righ... READ MORE
But He Got His Buck
By Ed Waite
Here’s yet more proof that the coolest gift for a deer hunter would be an INSTANT REPLAY button. Had Jeff Yanak ignored the urge to head off a fatally hit buck at the pass, if only he’d forsaken the power of reasoning that supposedly puts him above the deer he hunts, he might’ve had more food for his chain in 2012. Regrets, he&rsq... READ MORE
The Deer in the River
By Mike Handley
Ask not for whom the buck swims. It swims for thee. Makayla Hay was shaking. She’d like to think — or for others to think — that she was merely cold; that it was more shiver than shake. But it was Nov. 2 in central Texas, about 44 degrees, and on its way up to 72. The real reason her synapses were sparking was lying out in the tal... READ MORE