Today’s guest blog from Indiana hunter Nathan Spalding: Mike: I've only been hunting for 5 years now, but I hunt hard. I've spent the last 5 years making plenty of mistakes and learning from them. I don't hunt with guns; I love the challenge that bow hunting offers. I feel very blessed to have taken this buck with a bow. The ground he was killed on is in Gibson County, in the river bottoms. I've had good luck in the past at this spot. I had made some mock scrapes (check out this Big Deer Tactics video on buck scrapes) on a Thursday night and hunted them Friday. I had 7 bucks hit them. I almost drew on one of [...]

We have been shooting some amazingly wide bucks here in VA the last couple of seasons, here’s another one that was shot December 20 not too far from my house: Hey Mike: This buck was shot by my buddy's dad in Orange County: 9- inch G-2, 23.5" main beams, 24.5" outside spread, heavy bases. Shot him at 75 yards with 30.06, 150-grain bullet. If you could give him a shout out that would be awesome!—Your friend Tanner Knecht Shout out given and well deserved for this beautiful VA deer, way to go man!

"I didn't take a phone, a watch, binoculars, anything," Jeff Toy said. But on a whim, he grabbed a handful of shells for his coat pocket, a spare gun, and a 5-gallon bucket to sit on at the edge of the property while his fellow hunters used his deer stands… He was perched on the bucket, enduring snow and wind…when a deer "came wandering through without a care in the world"…when it got within a couple of hundred yards…he took his shot… Click here for the entire story of this massive Michigan monster, one of the top bucks of 2013!