After bowhunting for more than five decades, starting with a hickory bow he bought when he was just 11, this veteran dropped a mature bruiser that’s definitely the buck of a lifetime!
Category: Buckshots
Snowmobiler Lays Claim to 180-Inch Illinois Buck
When Caleb Morris, of Amboy, Ill., was launched from his snowmobile on Nov. 20, 2016, after hitting a hard object buried under the 10 inches of recently fallen snow, it was safe to say he was thrown for a loop. Thankfully, Caleb and his snowmobile were no worse for the wear. When he returned home, Caleb relayed […]
She Almost Missed Her Bridal Shower for This Great Buck!
The bridal-shower crisis actually began six years earlier when Brooke started dating her now husband, Daniel Merrell. Daniel, an avid hunter, asked Brooke to accompany him on a hunt as an observer, and that first year he tagged a buck. By the third year, she wanted her own chance at a buck. “I was hooked […]
Love of the Woods, Deer Hunting Relaunched with Success
Sometimes things happen that may put our hunting on a hiatus and then we get back to it later in life. While some of you may be reading this and thinking, “Heh, there’s no way in Hades that EVER would happen to me and MY hunting or fishing,” well, think again. It happens often and […]
Big Bucks: The Treasure of Junkyard
Sometimes you get but one chance at the buck of a lifetime. Other times, the deer comes back … and back … and back. When Doug Knott and his son Tyler of Blakesburg, Iowa, first saw the whitetail they nicknamed Junkyard in a game-camera photo taken on Oct. 5, 2015, neither had any idea that […]
After Heartbreaking Miss, Bowhunter Evens Score with Giant Buck
Consider all of the stories you’ve heard about deer hunters killing giant, mature white-tailed bucks. These success stories typically involve surprise encounters with deer that had never been seen before, or monarchs with generally unpredictable movements. Kevin Krebbs defied these odds when he got a rock-solid pattern on a 200-class whitetail that he would later […]
Pesky Neighbors Don’t Stop Hunter from Getting His Dream Buck
If you’re like most of us, you’ve got neighbors, and sometimes they can try your patience. Deer hunter Shawn Kelley had to overcome some pesky neighbors to get a buck of a lifetime. “A couple weeks before I got my buck, my game camera took a photo of a neighbor walking through the property I […]
Buckshots: One for Chuck
Opening day of gun deer season 2011 I first saw my neighbor Chuck. I was sitting in my favorite stand facing his property when he appeared in his back yard in a blaze orange jacket, with a leaf blower so powerful that it must have scared all the deer away for more than a mile. When […]
Hunter, Battling Cancer, Drops Monster 19-Point Buck
Warren Curtis of Lee, Maine, has been a trapper, hunter and outdoorsman for years. Living in Maine can be challenging in winter, when the weather’s not always great. For outdoorsmen it is a tough environment but just part of the deal. Curtis and his son, James, were hunting near Prentiss in east-central Maine on Nov. […]
Team DDH’s Kayser Drops Awesome Mule Deer
The Team DDH crew keeps on rolling this season, with Deer & Deer Hunting TV co-host Mark Kayser bringing in a fantastic mule deer with his CVA muzzleloader. Kayser had been hunting this buck for a while, a 3.5-year old 4×5 that gave him a shot from about 50 yards when it stood up on a […]