North American Whitetail Magazine

3 weeks ago | northamericanwhitetail.com | Josh Honeycutt

Name: Bob McCabeBuck Score: 199 1/8 inchesDate of Harvest: September 7, 2024State of Harvest: KentuckyWeapon of Harvest: BowFew hunters see a 200-inch whitetail, but last season, Bob McCabe did. Incredibly, he also harvested it. McCabe arrowed the velvet buck right out of the early season gate. McCabe started getting photos of the deer that summer, and being familiar with the area, he patterned the buck rather quickly.

1 month ago | northamericanwhitetail.com | Jace Bauserman

I remember my first flagship bow purchase as if it were yesterday; I was 20 years old. The pro shop was Johnson’s Sport & Ski, and the bow model was a Mathews Outback. I was newly married, teaching fifth grade and dirt poor. Thank God for my dad! He knew what archery and bowhunting meant to me and footed the bill. Although I had enough budget to cloak my new shooter in fancy-to-do accessories, I went the low-end accessory route.

1 month ago | northamericanwhitetail.com | Josh Honeycutt

Hunter: Pierce MooreBuck Score: 194 inches (gross) / 189 ½ (typical)Date of Harvest: September 30, 2024State of Harvest: OhioWeapon of Harvest: Compound bow“It all started the week before the 2023 Ohio whitetail season opener,” said Pierce Moore. “I had taken my son behind an old barn and set a trail camera. We’d lived at the place for a couple years and never saw anything of any size as far as bucks go.

1 month ago | northamericanwhitetail.com | Josh Honeycutt

Name: Jason BrooksBuck Score: 209 1/8 inches (gross) | 204 inches (net)Date of Harvest: January 10, 2025Location of Harvest: Barren County, KentuckyWeapon of Harvest: CrossbowJason Brooks started hunting 40 years ago. Hunting this deer nicknamed “Brute,” was the culmination of much effort. Brooks started leasing the property around 2012. He leased for years and invested a lot of sweat equity into it. Eventually, when the property went up for sale, he and his father purchased the farm.

1 month ago | northamericanwhitetail.com | Mark Kayser

The first time I bowhunted from an elevated position I did not use a stand. An ancient cottonwood in the middle of a grassy drainage area in standing corn served as my elevation. Scrambling up the branches and into the nook of several limbs, I sat with my old Bear Whitetail compound bow for several nights until a 1 ½-year-old buck rutted past. I tagged my first ever deer from that old cottonwood. My elevated stand hunts have changed from that adventure more than four decades prior.