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Looking for the inside scoop on a rumored record whitetail? Just how big was that buck your favorite pro-staffer killed last week? Did you shoot a big buck yourself, and want to share the story? Then you've come to the right place: Welcome to the Rack Report.

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A Giant Velvet Main-Frame 8-Pointer

September 16, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

It started with a turkey hunt. Alex Fruit noticed turkeys hanging around a small chunk of thick timber situated among rolling pastures and cropland. Always on the lookout for a spot to chase big gobblers, Alex stopped to talk to the landowner about hunting. He was given permission and made...

A Huge Early Season Velvet Buck with a Bow

September 16, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

Colten Clemmons owes this buck to his trail cameras. As a pro staffer for Spartan Trail Cameras, Colten likes to run cameras every chance he gets. About a month before the 2017 Kentucky season, Colten decided to stick a camera on a farm he thought might be good for a...

Booner Alert: A 200-Inch Buck with a Crossbow

March 2, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

Some deer hunters like to keep intel on the bucks that are running the properties they hunt. Thanks to trail cameras, this process is made easy. On the flipside, there are those who simply head to their favorite stand to sit. They scout in-the-field, but trail cameras play no role...

Another Booner Buck Falls in the Midwest

March 2, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

With no rifle season and only a short shotgun season, Dylan Flogel decided four years ago he was going to try his luck with the stick and string . “When I first started bowhunting , I [went] 20 to 25 times before I even seen a deer,” Dylan said. “Which...

Huntress Kills Booner in the North

February 16, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), in 2001, there were 1.8 million woman hunters . Fast forward to 2013 and that number increased 85 percent to 3.3 million. That number continues to grow. With that, meet Nicole Stroobants, who loves to hunt deer on her family farm. Nicole started...

Hunter Kills Giant Public Land Deer in the Southeast

February 16, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

You never forget your first deer. For Eric Stone, it was a small 6-pointer he killed on a youth hunt at Coosawattee WMA. He was 9 years old. The area became so special to him that he continued to apply for the hunt there every year. Last year, on December...

A Last-Minute Monster Buck

February 8, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

Matt Walton was given permission to hunt private land in Ohio earlier this year. Walton nailed two does early in the season – his family thrives on venison – then held out for a mature buck, passing multiple deer he admittedly would’ve taken in the past. Unfortunately, Walton didn’t know...

Hunter Kills Giant Northeastern Deer

February 6, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

When a giant whitetail inhabits a given neighborhood, a local eventually spots him or captures a trail-cam image of it, then begins spreading rumors. That’s how New York hunter Jeffrey DeBadts first learned of the buck he harvested on November 19 this past fall. A buddy showed DeBadts a grainy...

A Public Land Surprise in the South

February 1, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

Killing a 170-inch buck in Georgia is certainly a feat worthy of recognition. But to do so on high-pressured national-forest land is nothing short of extraordinary. That’s exactly what Dekalb County Fire and Rescue Captain Jeff Goins did this past Veteran’s Day. Goins had spent all of his two-week hunting...

A Giant Typical Booner Whitetail with a Bow

January 30, 2017  |  From Rack Reports

Growing up in rural West Virginia , 20-year-old Josh Mullins is no stranger to the outdoors . In fact, if you don’t know your way around a rod and reel, have a gun rack in the back window of your pickup truck and own an assortment of Realtree camo that...

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