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Ryan Smith Buck: 202-Inch Missouri Non-Typical
Midway through my third hour in the stand, I decided I had had enough swaying back and forth for one day. It was October 19 in northwest Missouri, and though the conditions weren’t favorable for deer...
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Bill Ullrich Buck: 220-Inch Peoria County Non-Typical
Thirty-five years of bowhunting have taught Bill Ullrich a few things about chasing whitetails. After a few years of making a lot of mistakes, you reach a level of knowledge that moves you as a hunter...
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Dean Partridge Buck: 231-Inch Canadian Giant
For as long as I can remember, hunting whitetails has been more than a pastime. It’s simply been my life. Chasing mature bucks was not just something we did, but something that defined who we were. The...
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Dennis Chevalier Buck: 195-Inch Canadian ‘Kong’
Sunrise was to be at 7:36 a.m., and it was 6:50 when I slid into the pop-up ground blind on Nov. 19, 2012. The mixed coniferous bush near Kenora, Ontario, was still draped in darkness, and I soon had...
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Bo Russell Buck: 231-Inch Iowa Megabuck
When just about everything that can go wrong with the pursuit of a huge buck really does go wrong, it’s easy to get discouraged. But sometimes, persistence wins out in the end. Just ask dedicated...
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Jason Tuttle Buck: 182-Inch Kentucky Giant
I usually write one of two types of deer-hunting features. Many are about my own experiences; the rest are stories related to me by people I didn’t know before interviewing them. But this one is...
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A.J. Downs Buck: 256-Inch Texas Monster
Over his years of chasing whitetails, A.J. Downs of Conroe, Texas, has taken a number of big bucks with his bow. But none of the other mounts in his trophy room can match the size, or the meaning, of...
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Rhett Butler Buck: 194-Inch Arkansas Non-Typical
Late last September, Rhett Butler ran into an old friend on his hunting club on the Mississippi River. And the friend, Don Baddhour, had a pointed question for him: “Rhett, are you hunting a specific...
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Dick Sheflin Buck: 185-Inch New York Giant
Huge bucks are taken each year by New York hunters using a variety of gear. But for decades deer hunting in this diverse state has been synonymous with “firearms season.” For most here, nothing gets...
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Robert Taylor Buck: 254-Inch Texas Legend
If you enjoy a good story about a kid and his very first buck, you’re sure to love the true tale behind the bruiser whitetail Texas archer Robert Taylor brought down in Grayson County during the waning...
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Tim Beck Buck: 305-Inch Indiana Record
Tim Beck’s 37-pointer looks to be the world’s No. 2 all-time non-typical taken by a hunter, with an amazing net non-typical score of 305 7/8. He’s easily the biggest ever by shotgun, based on Boone...
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New Kansas State Record Whitetail Tops 300 Inches
While every Boone & Crockett buck is a special trophy, the loftiest benchmark—300 net inches—is so rare as to seem unreal. Only a handful of wild non-typicals have been certified at that score. As...
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Ben Thomson Buck: 239-Inch Hawkeye Hoss
Ben Thomson had no idea a big non-typical even existed in his Iowa hunting area last year. Then he pulled the memory card from one of his trail cameras, and everything changed. “It all started back in...
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20th Anniversary: Milo Hanson’s World Record Buck
I really didn’t think I’d ever write this piece. Not that I didn’t think I’d be around to do it. For a long time I really just didn’t think there would be any need for it. When Milo Hanson’s 213...
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Jason Erb Buck: 193-Inch Ohio Monster
Hunter: Jason Erb State/County: Ohio/Columbiana County Score: 193 3/8 gross Gear: Bear Attack compound bow With daylight quickly fading on a mid-November evening, Jason Erb closed the deal on his “buck...
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Jim Cogar Buck: 213-Inch Buckeye Beast
Despite one of the worst droughts in history, in July 2012 my expectations for deer season here in central Ohio were as high as ever. Trail cameras were set, mineral sites were established, and other...
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Ty Schaefer Buck: Pennsylvania’s New No. 4 Typical of All Time
As Ty Schaefer and his grandfather rode in the back of the pickup truck, staring in amazement at Ty’s first archery kill, the young hunter thought back to a nearly identical scene two years earlier....
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Jason Buss Buck: 190-Inch Illinois Giant
You’ve often heard the saying, “Big bucks don’t get that way by being stupid.” Well, Illinois deer hunter Jason Buss can vouch for it. He encountered one of those big and not-so-stupid bucks in the...
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Doug Broich’s 243-Inch Saskatchewan Non-Typical Whitetail Record
With a fairly recent move to the countryside and some land under my family’s feet, I was looking forward to seeing which whitetail bucks were roaming our piece of southern Saskatchewan soil for the...
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Brett Carman Buck: 194-inch Ohio Giant
Hunter: Brett Carman State/County: Ohio/Adams County Score: 194 7/8 Gear: Horton Express crossbow Brett Carman nabbed an astounding non-typical buck on his 154-acre “whitetail paradise” in Adams...
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