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A Surprise Missouri Monster Buck from the Ground

December 22, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Jesse Marlin, of Missouri, spends a lot of time chasing whitetails. He has hunted with bows and guns his entire life. “I’ve taken dozens of bucks from 150 to 180-plus inches,” he said. “My last buck was 186-6/8 inches with a bow. This buck ended a four-year dry spell.” Incredibly,...

3-Year Story Ends with Giant Buck During the First Sit of the Season

December 20, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Michael Reed of Midwest Whitetail has been killing big, mature bucks for decades. In fact, he moved to Iowa to live and hunt in one of the top states in America to do just that. This season, he shot another one. The buck lived on a property Reed purchased in...

Iowa Hunter Shoots a Booner After Dogs, 8 People, and a Farmer on a Tractor Clear the Field

December 19, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Max Mongrello of Midwest Whitetail moved to Iowa a few years ago to follow a dream. He wanted to work in the hunting industry, but he also wanted to chase monster bucks. And there’s no better place to do that than the Hawkeye State. Iowa is the land of big...

Video Footage Shows Mountain Lion Standing Over Dog After Dragging It From California Home

December 16, 2022   |  The Realblog with Stephanie Mallory

A mountain lion snuck in through an open sliding glass door in a Sonoma County, California, home, attacked a dog, and dragged it by its neck into the backyard. Video posted by the dog's owner to Facebook shows the snarling mountain lion standing over a motionless border collie. Rebecca Kracker...

A 200-Class Typical Buck with a .30-30

December 15, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

“I’m still processing all of it,” Kate Sanford said of her opening-day Missouri hunt when she nailed a mega-buck. That morning, she’d been hunting with her husband, Shawn, which is rare since they have three daughters, including an 11-year-old and 6-year-old twins. Usually, one watches the children while the other...

Minnesota Firefighters Rescue Massive Buck From Frozen River

December 15, 2022   |  The Realblog with Stephanie Mallory

A group of volunteer firefighters came to the aid of a huge buck that’d fallen through an ice-covered river in Minnesota. According to Fox News , the buck was located around 8 a.m. on Monday, December 5, 2022, in the Red Lake River in Thief River Falls. Fire Chief Rick...

Watch Whitetail Buck Run Off Two Bull Elk

December 14, 2022   |  The Realblog with Stephanie Mallory

During the rut, bucks are fueled by a surge of testosterone, which causes them to spar and fight with each other for dominance and the right to breed does. Sometimes those love-crazed bucks let out their aggression on other creatures and objects. In this video footage shared on YouTube by...

Son Bags the Big Buck His Dad Missed Last Season

December 14, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

It was 14 degrees in southern Ohio on November 19. Twelve-year-old Ashton Copas, who has Down syndrome, had outgrown his hunting clothes and was wearing his mother’s Realtree Edge camo. Ashton doesn’t like gloves, so he’d occasionally stuff his hands into his mother’s coat to warm them up. Ashton’s father,...

Monster Mass on 235-Inch Kansas Non-Typical

December 13, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Following the 2021 Kansas deer season, farmer and hunter Darin Williams learned about a world-class buck in the neighborhood through an outfitter friend. The outfitter’s client had gotten so rattled by an encounter with the buck that he shot underneath it at 20 yards. “I farm most of the ground...

Massachusetts Bowhunter Shoots 195-Inch Buck While Answering the Call of Nature

December 8, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

A world-class buck that Massachusetts resident Chris Alberini had been chasing for five years caught him with his pants down — literally — this November. More on that later. At least five other hunters were pursuing the giant whitetail. One of them hit the buck’s left shoulder in 2016. That...

The Mid-Gun-Season Blues: When Times Get Tough

December 7, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

After the barrage of cannon fire you heard opening week, do any big bucks still roam the timber? You start to wonder. But remember, an old hip-swaying, big-racked whitetail is the ultimate survivor. Hunting one is never easy, especially during the middle of gun season. But hang in there, and...

Reasons Why Late-Season Deer Hunting Sucks … and Why It’s Great, Too

December 6, 2022   |  From Articles

The big buck ambled through the snow-laden hayfield 180 degrees behind me. I was sitting on the ground overlooking a river bottom that wraps around the field edge with my muzzleloader on my lap when I craned left and saw tines. Unfortunately, several deer were between me and the bruiser...

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