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#10 - Damon Hoard
2023

#10 - Damon Hoard

It was the first week of November. My birthday falls on Nov 5 (def meant to be). Started with an observation sit the first night. Which led me to my first sighting of a big buck working a scrape li...
#1 – David Powell
2022

#1 – David Powell

I will begin by apologizing in advance for my lack of brevity in recounting the following events.  I first saw this deer in the summer of 2017. It had a very unusual rack. I believe it was three  ...
#2 – Bransen Shelton
2022

#2 – Bransen Shelton

The hunt for the buck that would turn out to be my largest ever officially started in February  2021 during a quail/shed hunt on a large swathe of public land. I was working my dogs on a  second ye...
#3 – Joshua Trolinger
2022

#3 – Joshua Trolinger

This year has been a roller coaster of life for me. Lots of changes within our family, work demanding some extensive travel & very little opportunity to be afield doing what I love. This trip t...
#4 – Austin Cole
2022

#4 – Austin Cole

I started the year 2022 off by not only preparing for my 1st big Illinois trip but also trying for a baby with my wife. We secured our 300-acre lease in Calhoun County, IL and a few weeks later als...
#5 – Kiley Harpster
2022

#5 – Kiley Harpster

KILEY HARPSTER SADDLE GEAR: Tethrd Phantom Saddle, Tethrd Skeletor Sticks, Latitude X-Wing Platform LOCATION: Missouri/Iowa Deer season 2022, like all of them, starts in the Spring/Early Summer ti...
#6 – Dane Driscoll
2022

#6 – Dane Driscoll

We got our first picture of this deer in January of 2021. My friend Andy and myself spent that winter/spring scouting and looking for his sheds. Honestly we didn’t find what we were looking for. Th...
#7 – James R. Cornelius IV (J.R.)
2022

#7 – James R. Cornelius IV (J.R.)

This story really starts on July 7, 2022, with me placing a cell camera in a small field on the top of a hill in the middle of an 800-acre tract of public land here in Kentucky. On July 22, 2022, a...
#8 – Mike Haydo
2022

#8 – Mike Haydo

Every year I travel from Wisconsin to go hunt in lower Michigan, for a 7-9 day hunt during the rut. This year I was on my 7th day of the hunt when I spotted this giant. The morning of 11-11-22 I wa...
#9 – Justin Reineke
2022

#9 – Justin Reineke

Rutcation 2022 brought me back to SD for the 2nd year in a row chasing public land whitetails in hill country. On the 5th day of our trip, November 9th, I went to a spot I had seen a big buck a few...
#10 – Nolan Taylor
2022

#10 – Nolan Taylor

This story starts in a coffee shop, over 2000 miles away from the tree I would arrow this buck from. In the slow winter months of 2021, my plans for the next season were already forming. I made a g...
#1 – Kiley Harpster
2021

#1 – Kiley Harpster

As the MO archery season soon crept up on me, beginning Sept 15th, I was confident that I would wrap my tag around a solid 160″ 11 point within 2 weeks. I had been getting this deer pretty regularl...

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