On the basis of all available evidence it seemed likely that I had, and Maine officials thought so. “We believe this is the heaviest whitetail ever shot anywhere,” Elliot wrote me. Reliable weight ...

A son’s multi-year effort just got his father’s 1995 buck in the Kansas record book. The son still has another goal.

And the guys in Maine don’t get nearly as excited ... Of course, you get the occasional buck that comes easy; my biggest archery whitetail came on the second sit of Minnesota’s early-archery ...