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#1 – Austin Chandler
2018

#1 – Austin Chandler

The fall of 2018 was one of highs and lows for me. It was an unforgettable season. The previous spring I picked up the largest set of sheds I had ever found. A 200 inch nontypical with matching 9 i...
#2 – Mark Udelhofen
2018

#2 – Mark Udelhofen

2018 came with many new changes for me. I decided to go all in on saddle hunting. I had been a mobile hunter with climbing sticks and a XOP hang on stand since 2016 when I decided to give up our 40...
#3 – Justin Oosterbaan
2018

#3 – Justin Oosterbaan

It was my firstborns due date, October 28, but she was just going to have to wait. I was in the woods by 2:30 after it rained most of the day. The radar was ominous. I walked into where I had shot ...
#4 – Clayton Bahn
2018

#4 – Clayton Bahn

Freshly motivated by Ted on the Hunting Public web-show, I also visualized myself in hero-shots sporting an 80s style, bushy mustache. The first week of November came and passed at a snails pace b...
#5 – John Zeigler
2018

#5 – John Zeigler

It was a stormy Halloween. Already soaked from the rain, I questioned the value of sticking it out on highly pressured public land. Yet I knew that coming gaps in the radar showed promise for deer ...
#6 – David Terry
2018

#6 – David Terry

When it comes to whitetails and killing good public land deer, I would not be the guy that comes to mind. However, I would place my ability to get on the big public land bucks with anyone. The last...
#7 – Rock Bortell
2018

#7 – Rock Bortell

First things first, this buck was killed in some rough country in the coalfield mountains of southern WV. I had a history of this buck eluding my every move the last couple years. With hundreds up...
#8 – Zachary Rau
2018

#8 – Zachary Rau

It was a few days into the season and the high hunting pressure of northern Michigan’s public land was besting most of the hunters in the woods. Deer sign started to disappear in the weeks leading ...
#9 – Grant Lemon
2018

#9 – Grant Lemon

After a very long season marred with the heartache of losing a good buck to a bad hit, and heart break from losing my best friend, an extremely loyal golden lab, I was ready for the season to end. ...
#10 – John Dolan
2018

#10 – John Dolan

On December 1, 2018 I left my house in North Georgia to go on a quota hunt in Rome, Georgia at Berry college! Weather man called for rain but after waiting all week to be off work I was going regar...

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OUR FAVORITE SADDLE HUNTING STORIES FROM EACH SEASON

The 'best' is hard to define. What makes it the best for one hunter could be wildly different than another. While a hunter in the Midwest might value the P&Y score more than anything, a DIY public land hunter in the deep South might value the amount of sweat equity expended more than the size of the rack. The self-filmer might value the creativity that went into the imagery or the documentation of the story. Maybe it was a hunter’s first buck, or a Veteran battling his demons who found an escape into the whitetail woods. None of those judgments are wrong. There is no definition of the “best” for the Tethrd Ten.

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