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Josh Barnard Buck: 192-Inch Ohio Giant
The story of this buck starts back in 2007 on an early October morning. I was bowhunting with my brother-in-law, who was filming my hunt on a small, 50-acre tract of private property in Scioto County,...
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Frank Nation Buck: 223-Inch Illinois Non-Typical
Like those in many Midwest states in 2011, Illinois hunters dealt with warm temperatures and a lack of rain right from the get-go, and it lasted most of the season. On the bright side, the conditions...
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Michael Erickson Buck: 189-Inch Iowa Monster
I have been gripped by a passion for hunting whitetails since 1984 when my high school band teacher invited me to hunt with him that fall. He gave me a damaged compound bow and some finger tabs. I...
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Garry Greenwalt Buck: 172-Inch Washington Ghost
As I sat there reflecting on the events of this season, I was slowly starting to face the harsh reality that for the first time in 20 years, I just might not put a buck on the ground. For the past...
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Kevin Merrell Buck: 179-Inch Arkansas Record-Breaker
Hunter: Kevin Merrell State/County: Arkansas/Greene County Score: 179 4/8, archery (typical) Date: December 6, 2011 Kevin Merrell closed the deal on a giant typical in Greene County that broke the...
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Aaron Jolliff Buck: 170-Inch Arkansas Monster
As a winter front pushed through northwest Arkansas on Dec. 12, 2011, the gray and ominous clouds hung low in the winter sky, drizzling rain. Days like this are exactly what Aaron Jolliff, of Bella...
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Shane Frost Buck: 216-Inch Non-Typical Trophy
Whitetail fate played its hand for Arkansas’ Shane Frost on January 23, 2012. The setting was in the big-timbered, fertile ground of the Black River Bottoms in Clay County in northeast Arkansas. The...
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Rich Baugh Buck: 177-Inch Iowa Stud
My hunt for Bud began in August of 2008. I was clicking through some trail camera pictures and an incredible young buck popped up. I immediately said, “Oh, buddy,” hence the name Bud. This was a...
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Barry Turner Buck: 217-Inch Missouri Bruiser
It was late September when I received an email from my buddy Mike that was titled “deer pics.” I hoped that we would have some nice bucks on camera, and as I read the short message that contained the...
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Garry Morris Buck: The “40 for 40″ Kansas Monster
It was mid-afternoon on Nov. 13, 2009, and Gary Morris of Winslow, Ark., was heading south out of Iowa. Driven by a haze of internal frustration, he was headed back to Arkansas six days early. The last...
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Ryan Dietsch Buck: 219-Inch Ohio Bruiser
Looking back on it now, I can clearly divide my whitetail hunting career into two “eras”—Before Trail Camera Photo and After Trail Camera Photo. That’s how much my hunting perspective changed after I...
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Lucas Cochren Buck: 238-Inch Non-Typical Giant
Three hundred and twenty steps later, my thoughts were confirmed. No blood, hair or sign of impact indicated that I had missed the deer of a lifetime. My head was spinning, wondering what had just...
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Paul Keller Buck: The 231-Inch Wisconsin Wonder
As I nocked an arrow, I sat back and started to reminisce a little bit about the “good old days” of my hunting career. I thought back to my days of cutting truck loads of firewood as a boy to earn...
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Fred Swihart Buck: 215-Inch Iowa Early Bird
You need only skim the pages of the Boone & Crockett Club record book to understand why the majority of hunters pick the November rut as the prime time to hunt giant whitetails. Mature bucks are...
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Jay Price Buck: 206-Inch Kansas Giant
To be honest, Jay Price had not even purchased his archery deer license yet when he and hunting buddy Rick Arnall and Rick’s son, Alex, turned off the highway onto one of the countless county dirt...
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Brian Hollands Buck: 183-Inch Missouri Non-Typical
Brian Hollands had mixed emotions as he drove along the dark back roads near Nevada, Mo. Confident, he felt like he had a date with destiny. The former lead-guitarist in a rock band, Hollands normally...
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Dan Daigle Buck: 191-Inch State Record
The fact that the 2012 season produced a new Massachusetts state archery record is not exactly surprising, given that this is the third year in a row that the Northeast Big Buck Club has recorded a new...
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Jim Hill Buck: 177-Inch Kentucky Grapevine Giant
For bowhunter Jim Hill, of Hebron, Ky., the 2011 season had been somewhat frustrating. Although he had seen numerous deer and taken several does, closing the deal on a mature buck had proved to be a...
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Mike Miller Buck: 215-Inch Arkansas Monarch
It was October 7, 2012, and a cold front had pushed through the eastern Arkansas Delta, dropping the temperature into the mid-50s. The low country heat had hovered in the 70s and 80s for the previous...
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Jeremy Schmeidler Buck: 223-Inch Kansas Wild Thing
Jeremy Schmeidler of Hays, Kan., was hooked on bowhunting from the very first time he sat in a tree, when his lifelong friend and college baseball teammate, Darris Meitler, first took him bowhunting in...
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