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He Bought the World Record Whitetail Sheds for $1 Million — Then Found Out They Had Been Tampered With

By Alex Robinson

A hunter with a big Oklahoma buck.

Oklahoma Hunter Tags His Biggest Buck Yet — from the Ground

B&W photo of hunter with deer in trunk

I Spent 5 Years Bowhunting One of the Biggest Nontypicals Ever. Then My Buddy Killed Him

A hunter with a big droptine buck taken in Ohio.

This Buck Outsmarted Me for 3 Seasons. One Change Finally Gave Me the Chance I Needed

An Oklahoma hunter with a big buck with lots of points in the back of a wagon

I Shot the Biggest Buck of My Life with a 10-Year-Old Crossbow and Just One Arrow to My Name

An illustration of a hunter in a pine tree about to shoot a 250-inch buck.

The Hunt for the Jameson Buck, a 250-Inch Legend That Lived in an Old Strip Mine

By Michael Pearce

Two photos of a big wisconsin buck with tons of mass.

Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows Giant 16-Point That Was ‘Much Bigger a Few Years Ago’

A photo of Ed Koberstein with his big Alberta typical buck.

The Hunt for the Ed Koberstein Buck, a World-Record Contender That Lost After a Scoring Mixup

An illustration of Jim Jordan shooting a running giant buck with a lever action.

Solving the 65-Year Mystery of the Jordan Buck, the Biggest Whitetail Ever Killed in America

An illustration of a buck running up a hill

I Killed the Buck That No Other Pennsylvania Deer Hunter Could

By Raymond E. Miller, as told to Jim Hayes

An illustration of a buck running with a bowhunter in the background

I Shot the Biggest Pennsylvania Archery Buck on Record

By Andy Getsy with Jim Hayes

A collection of images of the Richard Waters buck, which was presented as a fair-chase buck.

‘I’m Stupid, Yes,’ Says Wisconsin Man Who Tried to Claim a 49-Point High-Fence Deer Was a State Record

By Natalie Krebs

A surprised looking hunter with a giant Missouri deer.

After My Dad Died, I Hunted Our Farm One Last Time — and Killed the Best Buck of My Life

By Andrew McKean

hunter leads horse, carrying dead mule deer, down a steep sidehill

Carmichel in the Backcountry: A Packtrain Pileup, Quick Shooting, and a Trophy Buck

By Jim Carmichel

An illustration of a giant nontypical Ohio buck

I Killed Ohio’s Biggest Nontypical Buck on My First Deer Hunt

By Chester Veach, with Bill Thomas

How I Still-Hunted the Second Biggest Buck Ever Tagged in Missouri

By Jeffrey A. Brunk

A shoulder mount on display at an outdoor show in Wisconsin.

This 49-Point Buck Was Promoted as a New State Record. Critics Say It Was Pen Raised

Tevis McCauley arrested

Tevis McCauley, the Infamous Kentucky Whitetail Heaven Outfitter, Has Been Arrested as a ‘Fugitive from Justice’

By Natalie Krebs

A Massachusets hunter with a big buck.

Middle-School Teacher Tags the Biggest Typical Buck Killed in Massachusetts in a Decade

A collage of big bucks from 2024.

The Biggest Bucks of 2024