Late Season Begins…Tim Herald

Late Season Begins
I always consider the week after Thanksgiving the official start to late season deer hunting. The past week in my part of the world was terrible weather wise (rain and 65 most days), but I did get to take my kids out a bit. Drew went with me the morning after Thanksgiving for [...]

Chris Tags His Trophy of a Lifetime

Hi, my name is Chris Miraglia and I am a passionate hunter from Ohio. My journey began on July 21, 2011 when I placed my Cuddeback trail camera outback in a 3-acre wood lot. That same day I spotted “Big Boy” on my Cuddeback trail camera and my whole world had changed!
My wife said “all you can do [...]

Big Midwestern Bucks

Here is another collection of big whitetail bucks taken across the Midwest during 2011 hunting seasons. Thanks to Ed Waite of Buckmasters for sharing some of these great pictures with us. Congrats to all these hunters!
Danny Terril, pictured with his boys harvested this big, dark antlered 10 point buck in Indiana during archery season.
Ricky Balzer [...]

Wecker Kids Harvest First Deer!

Great hunting report from a proud Dad about his kids first deer. Congrats to Madelyn and Grant on a couple of great first deer! We love to celebrate hunts here at American-Hunter, especially with kids. Keep the stories and pictures coming….hunt safe.
Happy to report two of my kids got their first deer this fall. There [...]

Monster Bucks: Success and Failure

Illinois 2011
I had an incredible gun season this year in Illinois, sharing deer camp with some great friends and scoring on this 140” 8 point first thing Friday morning! In fact, I had my best season ever in Illinois, filling both my archery and gun tags for the first time this year after hunting this [...]

FHFH Meat Donations

Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) is an excellent meat donation program, available in many states throughout the U.S. and 4 provinces in Canada. Hunters can quickly and easily find the nearest participating game processor at www.fhfh.org.
I donated this doe through our local FHFH processor. Thanks to a network of generous national, state [...]

Whitetail Properties Team Knocks ‘em Down

Mark Williams shot this 145″ buck with his Ruger Model 77 Hawkeye in South Hopkins County, Kentucky. His story follows:

Just started seeing this buck this year and have multiple Reconyx pictures of him.  He is a good mature buck with a lot of unique features including a double throat patch, split brow, and crab [...]

Kids Harvest First Deer

I had the privilege to take my son’s buddy, Josh Hageman, age 11 out hunting during the youth gun season this past weekend. On Saturday afternoon the 19th, Josh made a perfect 45 yard shot from a ground blind overlooking an alfalfa field. He was shooting a H&R youth 20 gauge, Ultra Slug shotgun loaded [...]

Hunting South Dakota Whitetails by Tim Herald

Miserable cold in SD, but…a nice buck is down!
After our fantastic hunt in NE, my cameraman and I drove 4 hours north to South Dakota to hunt with Tom Trask of Dakota Trophy Adventures. The weather was pretty warm when we got there, and we passed up a really nice old 5×6 whitetail with long [...]

Non-Typical Monster Buck from Ohio

On November 2, 2011 Matt Sheterom harvested a giant 200 class non-typical. This buck has incredible character, multiple drop tines, mass and 18 points. Below is a brief account of his hunt. His pictures been all over the Internet and will likely be featured in North American Whitetail at some point. Congrats Matt!
I have had [...]

Andy’s Big Illinois Buck

American-Hunter.com reader Andy Kalbach sent in his pictures and story of his bowhunt for a big Illinois buck this season. Congrats Andy! Keep the pictures and stories coming in!
With warm temperatures in Illinois during late October, often reaching near 70 in the afternoon, deer movement was very slow and mostly the last hour of the [...]

Dan’s Illinois Buck

Dan Perez of Whitetail Properties scored on this mature 140 class 8 point buck in Pike County, Illinois on November 9, 2011. Below is a picture and field report from his hunt.
We hunted an area I call Heartbreak Ridge, the weather conditions were perfect for this spot.  A cool wind was blowing out of the [...]

Monster Bucks and Quality Equipment

My biggest buck to date, taken 2 hours after I hung the stand.
Illinois has been one of my favorite hunting destinations for the last 6 or 7 years, and I normally draw a bow and a gun tag, (non residents can shoot one buck with a bow and one with a gun) and with the [...]

Meat is Hanging by Jeff Cox

I bought an new deer decoy a couple of weeks ago that worked like a charm.  This buck came in from nearly 100 yards away offering a perfect broadside shot.  There are a lot bigger deer left in the woods but I am happy with him.  His rack had a 21 ½” outside spread with [...]

Garrett Makes it Happen

Garrett Baker from Virginia submits his 2011 hunting story and picture. Sometimes you have to adapt and improvise to get your buck, and that’s exactly what he did, congrats!
Blowing 25 mph again today!  After 3 days of high winds and rain, it was time to take to the ground and go after them hillbilly mountain [...]

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