• The Ohio Halloween 195-4/8 Buck Deer with Bob Thomas

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    Late one evening, just before the spooks, the goblins and the children came out for a night of trick or treating, Bob Thomas of Seaman, Ohio, got the treat of a lifetime. On October 31, 2011, Thomas had put his grandson, Javin, in a tree stand where Thomas had seen a monster buck earlier. “I …

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  • David Wagler’s 177 Inch Kansas CRP Bow Buck Deer

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    “I could have shot this buck several different times with a rifle, but I was determined to take him with my bow,” David Wagler of Osage County, Kansas, says. The CRP Buck spent most of his time in thick CRP strips, occasionally coming into the timber strips next to the CRP land. David and his …

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  • Arkansas Ducks and a 172-Inch Buck Deer with Kristian and Luis Vargas

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    “I wasn’t planning on going hunting that Sunday morning before church,” 17-year-old Kristian Vargas of Jefferson County, Arkansas, explains. “I’d been to one of my school friends’ Sweet 16 party on Saturday night and didn’t get home until about 1:00 am. Then my dad, Luis, woke me up at 6:00 am to leave

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  • A 171-3/8 Inch Louisiana Giant Buck Deer with Dusty Myers

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    Editor’s Note: Thirty-year-old Dusty Myers of Oak Grove, Louisiana, carried a climbing tree stand and his rifle, while wading flooded timber and wearing hip waders for 3/4-mile on public land where no other hunters would go in late December, 2015. “I’d been rifle hunting deer for 18 years, and I started

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  • Enjoying an Awesome Spring Day of Fishing for Crappie and Catfish

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    Editor’s Note: The last Friday in April, 2018, I received unbelievable pictures from my friend, fishing guide Tony Adams in Eufaula, Alabama. Tony sent me pictures of giant shellcrackers (redear sunfish), crappie that were longer than a 5-gallon bucket, and catfish that weighed from 10 to 30 pounds. “This is

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