Why is the typical world record the Holy Grail of whitetail deer hunting? After all, the non-typical record is more than 100 inches bigger, and there isn’t a hunter alive who doesn’t love “character” ...

Here's why Pennsylvania has been adding upwards of 100 white-tailed deer to its record books in recent years, and where the biggest of all were harvested.

There are plenty of world records that would be relatively easy to beat. Guinness will certify you a global champ if you can eat more than 25 marshmallows in a minute, assemble a Mr. Potato Head ...

The lean gray-haired man with the Cheshire-cat grin slid a snapshot across the tabletop to the man who sat next to him. The man’s eyes opened wide when he saw the picture. Soon the four other hunters ...

After years of online detective work by a 23-year-old Kansas bowhunter, the Sunflower State appears to have a new record typical whitetail buck for the first time in 50 years. But the story behind the ...

Kip Adams, chief conservation officer of the National Deer Association and a Pennsylvania deer hunter, has been seeing bigger ...

Jim Jordan stared at the fresh deer tracks in the snow. Three, maybe four deer had recently shuffled by, he figured. But one set of hoof marks caught his eye. The snow­ molded hoofs were huge; the ...

Pennsylvania is one of the top states for whitetail deer hunting. The northeast state’s 1.5-million-deer population combined with rich hunting traditions makes for the ideal location to hunt these ...

This story, “World-Record Whitetail?” appeared in the May 1992 issue of Outdoor Life. The Koberstein buck grossed 235 5/8 inches, netted 207 2/8 and was expected to replace the Jordan Buck as the new ...

No one was more surprised than William D. Crutchfield Jr. that he harvested Maryland’s non-typical whitetail deer record, which is also the highest-scoring non-typical buck on the Eastern Seaboard, a ...

Oklahoma’s 2007 hunting season included the harvest of two whitetail bucks that, within days of each, broke and set and then broke and set again the state’s record for largest whitetail typical. Even ...