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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...

Indiana Hunter Arrows 190-Class Typical 10

December 5, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

On Oct. 23, Emanuel Stoll hung a trail camera in one of his favorite hunting spots and soon captured a picture — just one — of the buck of a lifetime. Stoll didn’t have much information to work with this year, but he recognized the deer. “I had an encounter...

Oklahoma Recurve Hunter Arrows Giant 16-Pointer

December 2, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Oklahoma’s Jerry Bowers set down his compound bow 12 to 15 years ago and has hunted exclusively with his Black Widow recurve ever since. This November, while hunting at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP) — a controlled hunt for which deer tags are distributed by drawing — he took...

Tricks for Finding Lost Hunting Arrows

December 2, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

KKTV in Colorado reported that a bow hunter had to be airlifted out of the wilderness near Steamboat Springs after he was impaled by an arrow and broadhead apparently fired and lost by another hunter earlier this season. Routt County Search and Rescue said the hunter accidently walked into the...

20 Weird and Funny Treestand Names and Their Stories

November 30, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Hunters who share access and hunt together tend to name treestands and blinds. It’s fun and necessary, especially when trying to identify where someone is going for the day. So, if you’re slapping a handle on a spot, why not make it creative, funny or even weird? Here are 20...

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