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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

A hunter with a tall-tined illinois buck.

Illinois Hunter Shoots 184-Inch Buck While Sitting in a Lawn Chair

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck

Indiana Bowhunter Used a Spreadsheet to Help Kill This 184-Inch Buck

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.

Rookie Crossbow Hunter’s First Buck Is a 200-Class Nontypical Monster

A big 10-point buck in the back of a UTV.

Kansas Farmer Tags What Could Be One of the Top 5 Archery Bucks Ever Taken in the State

A bowhunter with a big buck in Illinois.

Illinois Bowhunter Was ‘In the Right Place at the Right Time’ to Tag 185-Inch Buck

A Florida hunter and his buck.

Florida Hunter Tags 187-Inch Buck While Watching the Gators Game

A buck on a tailgate.

Veteran Arrows Giant Ohio Buck from the Ground After Getting to His Stand Late

A deer hunter with a big Illinois buck in CRP grass.

Illinois Crossbow Hunter Stalks a 195-Inch Buck Through a Cornfield

A hunter with a buck in front of a red shed.

Watch: Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows 14-Pointer on Public Ground He’s Hunted for 30 Years

A bowhunter sitting crosslegged in a field beside a big buck

Veteran Climbs Out of Tree, Stalks and Arrows 19-Point Kansas Buck on Army Land

An illustration of a woman carrying a mule deer skull through the yellow aspens.

My First Buck Was the Biggest Typical Mule Deer Ever Taken with a Bow. I Almost Discarded the Antlers

By Bill Barcus as told to Lee Kline

Podcast: Secrets for Tagging a Mature Buck (and Not Totally Blowing It)

By Alex Robinson

Hunter poses with his bow and a large drop tine buck with 13 points.

Ohio Hunter Arrows Remarkable ‘Droop’ Tine Buck

By Alice Jones Webb

Jeremy Wynn buck

Illinois Bowhunter Tags 2 Giant Bucks on a Small Private Property and Public Ground

An illustration of the ahrens buck

The Mystery of the Ahrens Buck, a World-Record Whitetail That Vanished

By Mark LaBarbera, Stephanie R. Boyle

Two bucks fighting on a hillside while a smaller buck watches in the background.

How to Rattle in a Buck: A Science-Based Guide to Rattling Tactics

By Alice Jones Webb

A hunter with a buck taken in Virginia.

‘I Know He Was with Me.’ Virginia Hunter Tags 20-Point Buck with His Late Father’s Bow

Two bedded does and a big buck are illustrated in a field with a hunter in the background.

The End of My 4-Year Stalk for an Indiana Trophy Buck

By Clarence A. Yoder

A hunter raises a rifle at a giant deer in a red and yellow illustration

My Hunt for the First Nontypical Buck Ever Accepted by Boone and Crockett in Tennessee

By Elmer Payne, as told to Jim Turner

The Curt Van Lith buck and the Bill Kontras bucks, illustrated.

The Kontras and Van Lith Bucks, Two Record Deer That Changed Bowhunting

By Jeff Murray, Michael Pearce

A Colorado bowhunter with mule deer buck.

Velvet Mule Deer Buck from Colorado Could Be a New Archery World Record, but Questions Around the Hunt Remain

The Hollywood Cemetery buck compared to the James Walters buck.

Poacher Loses Hunting Privileges for 24 Years After Famous ‘Hollywood Buck’ Turns Up Dead on Facebook

By Natalie Krebs

Jack O'Connor spots a giant mule deer in this black and white illustration.

O’Connor in Arizona: Lost, Trigger Happy, and Tagged Out

By Jack O'Connor

cj alexander buck feature

Ohio Buck Could Become Third Biggest Whitetail of All Time, but Major Scoring Questions Remain

By Hayden Sammak

Thieves are sawing antlers off skulls and selling them to shed buyers.

Thieves Are Stealing More and More Racks From Hunters in the West — and Their Profits Keep Growing

A trail camera photo of a buck in Mississippi.

Hunter Tags 15-Point Buck with Unusual Double Rows of Tines

john bralley with leucistic buck

Hunter’s First Deer Is an Old, 8-Point Leucistic Buck

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Hunter Tags ‘Dwarf Buck’ the Size of a Labrador Retriever

randy kukral three year streak 1

How This Hunter Killed Three 200-Inch Bucks in Three Years

By Hayden Sammak

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Ohio Crossbow Hunter Stalks into Position on a Bedded 200-Class Buck

By Jason Thomas, as told to Dac Collins

Bowhunter Tags Surprise 210-Class Iowa Buck on Pressured Public Ground

Bowhunter Tags Surprise 210-Class Iowa Buck on Pressured Public Ground

By J.D. Vandenburg, as told to Andrew McKean

SD bowhunter massive palmated buck

Bowhunter Tags Double Palmated Buck After Passing It Two Years in a Row

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New York Hunter Gets a Second Chance on This 180-Inch Buck

A teen with her giant blackpowder buck.

Teen Tags Monster Mule Deer, Finds Its Sheds 50 Yards from Where It Fell

alabama velvet buck

Bowhunter Tags 16-Point Buck Still in Velvet, Could Be an Alabama State Record

Teen hunter tags big crossbow buck.

16-Year-Old Pennsylvania Hunter Sets a Women’s Crossbow State Record

ontario new record typical whitetail

Giant Typical Likely to Become the New No. 1 Hunter-Killed Buck in Ontario

An illustration of a giant kansas buck

No Man’s Land: The Hunt for a Giant Kansas Buck

By Alex Robinson

trophy room wall with mule deer heads

Mike Hirschi Might Be the Greatest Trophy Mule Deer Hunter in America. These Are (Some of) His Secrets

By Aram von Benedikt

Mitch Rompla buck

Mitch Rompola Buck: The True Backstory on Why the Deer Was Never Entered as a World Record

By Richard P. Smith

The Biggest Whitetail Bucks of 2022

By Alex Robinson

Lindell Richey's giant 200-inch Greene County, Georgia, buck.

Georgia Deer Hunter Accepts Last-Minute Hunt Club Invite, Shoots a Massive 200-Inch Buck

By Natalie Krebs

meredith buck lead

Eighth Grader Arrows a 238-Inch Buck, Likely the Biggest Non-Typical Ever Killed by a Youth Hunter in Kentucky

josh heuser MO buck 1

One of the Biggest Archery Bucks Ever Taken in Missouri Gets Green Scored

Trophy class buck poached in Pennsylvania.

Someone Poached This Big Pennsylvania Buck Near a Federal Prison

By Natalie Krebs

randy ulmer high country muley

Randy Ulmer Tags Another Stud Mule Deer in the Colorado High Country

world record typical whitetails

The Biggest Nontypical Whitetails of All Time

World record whitetail buck

The Milo Hanson Buck: How Long Can the Whitetail World Record Stand?

By Alex Robinson, Andrew McKean, Jim Zumbo

old magazine pages showing story

When a Shark Attacks a Deer Hunter, From the Archives

By Phil H. Moore

The Story of the World-Record Whitetail

The Story of the World-Record Whitetail

Dieter Herbert arrowed a 130 class buck (right) just minutes before shooting one of the biggest typical whitetails in New York history.

New York City Carpenter Tags a 197-Inch, State-Record Buck…On Long Island

The Top 40 Typical and Nontypical Whitetails of All Time

The Top 40 Typical and Nontypical Whitetails of All Time

The Top 40 Typical and Nontypical Mule Deer of All Time

The Top 40 Typical and Nontypical Mule Deer of All Time

corey memering kneeling next to giant whitetail buck

Michigan Bowhunter Kills 227-inch Monster Whitetail Buck

Big Bucks: Colorado Hunter Brett Ross Kills 292-Inch Mule Deer

Big Bucks: Colorado Hunter Brett Ross Kills 292-Inch Mule Deer

The New World-Record Deer

The New World-Record Deer

By Outdoor Life Online Editor