Big Buck 411
But When the School Bell Rings
Danny Scott struck a deal with his grandson, Ben Turner, when they retrieved trail camera photographs of an enormous buck with an unusual buck. First, they...
Shoot Happens!
Twenty-year-old Brett Petitt had all but thrown in the towel on his 2022-23 deer season. In every encounter he had with a mature deer, it either wouldn't...
The Not-Squirrel That Didn’t Get Away
Chase Aldridge spent more time looking at deer he couldn’t shoot than the one that wound up taking his arrow on Nov. 2.
Xen Moment
29-year-old Xen McAllister's Fayette County Freak was less than an inch shy of cracking Buckmasters Trophy Records' top-10 in the irregular, compound bow...
Change of Plans
How one trail camera photo turned a meat hunter into a trophy chaser.
Meat hunter. It’s a label we all should wear proudly considering the whole idea of...
Public Land Giant in Illinois
One of the finest whitetails Illinois taxidermist Matt Cheek will mount this year will be the one he almost didn’t shoot on Nov. 1.
If the archery permits...
Cartridge Crisis is About to Get Real
For a week and a half in August 2024, Grainger Pollert swallowed more saliva than he could’ve spit during a lifetime of sitting in a dentist’s chair.
168" Hoosier on Public Land
Bow hunting, like baseball, is a game of failure. Major-league hitters with .300 batting averages fail 70% of their at-bats and still enjoy careers worthy of...
Record Buck from Public Land
Joseph Holloman of Quitman, Miss., and his buddy, Brian Jordan, were sharing a 38,000-acre tract of public land with about 400 other hunters during a special...
Life's a Dance
You won't get the girl or the giant buck if you don't ask permission.
I could have written Garth Brooks' hit song “Life's a Dance.” Shy to the point of...
First Bow Buck Joins Club 200
When the first whitetail bow buck of your life measures over 200 inches, where do you go from there? Not a question most of us will wrestle with, but it’s the...
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