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A collage of big bucks from 2024.
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The Biggest Bucks of 2024

By Dac Collins

A hunter with a tall-tined illinois buck.
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Illinois Hunter Shoots 184-Inch Buck While Sitting in a Lawn Chair

By Bob McNally

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck
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Indiana Bowhunter Used a Spreadsheet to Help Kill This 184-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.
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Rookie Crossbow Hunter’s First Buck Is a 200-Class Nontypical Monster

By Bob McNally

A big 10-point buck in the back of a UTV.
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Kansas Farmer Tags What Could Be One of the Top 5 Archery Bucks Ever Taken in the State

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter with a big buck in Illinois.
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Illinois Bowhunter Was ‘In the Right Place at the Right Time’ to Tag 185-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

A Florida hunter and his buck.
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Florida Hunter Tags 187-Inch Buck While Watching the Gators Game

By Bob McNally

A buck on a tailgate.
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Veteran Arrows Giant Ohio Buck from the Ground After Getting to His Stand Late

By Bob McNally

A deer hunter with a big Illinois buck in CRP grass.
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Illinois Crossbow Hunter Stalks a 195-Inch Buck Through a Cornfield

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a buck in front of a red shed.
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Watch: Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows 14-Pointer on Public Ground He’s Hunted for 30 Years

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter sitting crosslegged in a field beside a big buck
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Veteran Climbs Out of Tree, Stalks and Arrows 19-Point Kansas Buck on Army Land

By Bob McNally

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

iowa whitetail
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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.
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Ohio Hunter Arrows Remarkable ‘Droop’ Tine Buck

By Alice Jones Webb

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

By Bob McNally

An illustration of the ahrens buck
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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.
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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.
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‘I Know He Was with Me.’ Virginia Hunter Tags 20-Point Buck with His Late Father’s Bow

By Bob McNally

Two bedded does and a big buck are illustrated in a field with a hunter in the background.
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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
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My Hunt for the First Nontypical Buck Ever Accepted by Boone and Crockett in Tennessee

By Elmer Payne, as told to Jim Turner