By Scott Bestul

I have profiled some unique deer blinds in this space before, but nothing quite like the model featured in the video below. I have to be honest here; there is absolutely no chance I will ever own one of these, and only the slimmest of odds that I will ever have the opportunity to hunt from one.

By Scott Bestul

For most of us, shed-hunting season is long over. For Bill Monahan (pictured) and his family, hard-working Minnesota dairy farmers, it’s just getting interesting. Bill’s wife Lucy called a mutual friend to report a shed-hunting story that’s pretty unique. Apparently, Bill was unloading hay bales from their second hay crop this week when he  noticed a tine sticking from one of the bales. Bill dug the shed from the bale.

By Scott Bestul

I have lived in—and driven through—prime whitetail country for most of my adult life. Amazingly, I have hit only three deer with my vehicle. Actually, scratch that. Every whitetail my vehicle has made contact with has run into me. There was a Wisconsin doe that head-butted my front tire, an Iowa buck that took out my driver’s side mirror and door (I thought that one was coming into the cab with me), and a Minnesota doe that slipped on the pavement and slid into my grill.

By Scott Bestul

If you’re a regular on this website, you no doubt recall the “Field & Stream” buck, the video of which caused quite a sensation last summer. The buck, filmed in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, by guide Scott Kirkpatrick, was shot in early November by bowhunter Bob Decker. The monster whitetail scored 233-2/8” and ranks 8th among all Wisconsin non-typicals and is the Badger State’s top bow-killed nontypical buck.