The big whitetail moved steadily, head lowered, nosing a course through a lunarlike landscape of earth mounds, dark puddles and hair-thick brush. Strip mining had turned the area raw and made hunting ...

This story, “Ghost Buck,” appeared in the November 1991 issue of Outdoor Life. The Bruce Jameson buck ultimately scored 248 1/8 inches after deductions, according to Boone and Crockett. Although it ...

Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...