So, you’ve shot a nice whitetail buck, and after a few minutes of admiring your trophy, you do the thoroughly modern thing and whip out your cell phone, snap some pics, and text them to your buddies.

A hunter in Mississippi first saw a buck with promise in 2022 and by 2025 it had become a trophy, 180-class giant.

The Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club is the official state record-keeper for big-game hunting. It keeps the trophy records for whitetail deer, black bears, elk and gray wolves – each in several categories.

What about the people who score your deer at the major big game contests in Virginia? Are they trophy hunters? Well, yes and no, depending on what you call a trophy. Matt Knox, deer biologist for the ...

Harvesting a trophy buck is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for many hunters, but for one Mississippi man, it was just a part of an unforgettable year.