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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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186 Georgia Bow Buck is Tyler Jordan's Biggest Archery Kill Yet

October 26, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Bill Jordan purchased Realtree Farms 20 years ago. Since then, the Jordan family and its guests have taken many mature bucks, but none quite like the deer Tyler Jordan arrowed this season. It’s a massive whitetail for any destination, and definitely a standout for the state of Georgia , where...

15-Inch-Wide 9-Pointer Grosses 164 and Change

October 22, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Just about every deer hunter dreams of Kansas . There’s something special about its rich ag ground in the eastern region, and its wide-open spaces in the western part. Heath Rayfield, who is part of the Buckventures crew, knows what the Land of Oz has to offer. Rayfield has been...

Bowhunter Reunited with 200-Inch Buck After Shed Hunter Recovers It

October 21, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Kentucky resident Kyle Culbreth is a dedicated deer hunter. He loves spending time in the outdoors with his family and friends. “Deer hunting is a way of life for my family,” Culbreth said. “Checking trail cameras is my 4-year-old daughter's favorite thing to do on weekends. She usually ends up...

40-Acre Farm Yields a Monster Typical Buck

October 18, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Own the Season’s Art Helin is a veteran bowhunter who knows whitetails. Good woodsmanship is in his blood. This season, it came as no surprise when he came face-to-face with a monster 7-year-old Wisconsin buck on his own 40-acre property. Helin has owned the place for 27 years, and it...

Dan Infalt Arrows Another Public-Land Booner

October 15, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Dan Infalt, founder of The Hunting Beast, shoots a lot of big deer. He has around three dozen shoulder mounts as proof. It came as no surprise this season when he arrowed a 7 ½-plus-year-old public-land buck he’d been watching for four year. The buck was mature — and big...

Hunter Rattles in a Cow, Then a Big September Buck

October 11, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Wildlife artist Nicole Weller Larson and her husband, Brent, put a lot of time and effort into hunting whitetails, and they don’t settle for just any buck. Their goal is to harvest mature deer only. The properties they hunt are thick with does, too, so they usually try to shoot...

Little Brother Passes a Coyote, Scores on a Kansas Stud

October 9, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

A few weeks ago on the Realtree Rack Report, we posted the story of 12-year-old Westin McCauley’s 211-inch Kansas monarch . Westin’s 10-year-old brother, Micah, also made the trip from Kentucky for the Sunflower State youth hunt, and he took a Kansas king of his own. As noted in Westin’s...

Jeff Danker’s Flyer Buck Has Triple Drop Tines

October 8, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Early season cold fronts have led to the demise of many mature bucks. These weather events and temperature swings have the incredible power of sparking daylight deer activity. When you get them, deer move — even the big ones. It’s that simple. Jeff Danker, host of Buckventures, knows this. On...

Buckeye Buck Named Hollywood Wakes Hunter from Catnap

October 7, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Seventeen-year-old Ohio hunter Dawson Snider spent a few years dreaming about the giant buck that woke him as he lightly dozed in his blind on the morning of Sept. 26, 2021. He and his father first saw the deer in 2018, when it was 3 1/2 years old. It was...

Opening-Day Velvet Stud in Kentucky

October 7, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Like many of us, Logan Beach didn’t have a lot of good buck prospects showing up on camera in early summer on his usual farms. Then the Bowling Green, Kentucky-based hunter remembered a group of bachelor bucks he had scouted the previous summer on another farm. The area those bucks...

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