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Graham Smith watched this massive North Carolina buck for five years. The deer first appeared in 2022, and even then, it...
10/15/2026

Graham Smith watched this massive North Carolina buck for five years. The deer first appeared in 2022, and even then, it was a fully mature whitetail. Smith had several in-person encounters with it in 2024 and 2025, all occurring from late October to early November. None of those sightings worked out, he tells Field & Stream. And now, he’s glad they didn’t.

Smith finally killed the buck on September 13, 2026, the second day of the North Carolina deer season. The weather was hot with a heat index of 104 degrees and a slight breeze. He was hunting a big hardwoods area with a cutover behind him and oaks down in front.

He says he watched a doe and her fawn walk out in front of his setup early on in the hunt. They were followed by two small bucks and two more does. Then, around 7:30 P.M., the big buck he’d been after showed up with a smaller 8-point. Smith settled in and floated his pin over the buck’s vitals. The quartering, 25-yard shot connected, and the deer dashed off.

“I keep thinking how blessed I am to harvest an animal of this caliber in North Carolina,” Smith says. “He’s definitely a once-in-lifetime deer.”

By the time Smith shot it, the buck was 9-and-half years old, he says. Its non-typical rack sported a whopping 23 points with a rough B&C green score of 191 and 5/8 inches. For context, the largest B&C non-typical on record in North Carolina measured 228 and 4/8 inches. Don Rockett killed that buck in Person County back in 1998.

According to Buckmasters (BTR) scorer Wayne Cox, who scored Smith’s deer in late September, it had more than 183 inches of total antler growth. Its BTR gross score of 203 and 3/8 inches makes it the number 2 bow-killed irregular whitetail ever scored by Buckmasters in the state of North Carolina.

Full story by Josh Honeycutt

The most famous bass in America might also be its greatest fish story.In 1932, George Perry and his fishing partner, Jac...
10/12/2026

The most famous bass in America might also be its greatest fish story.

In 1932, George Perry and his fishing partner, Jack Page, took a homemade boat onto a little Georgia oxbow with one rod, one reel, and a single Creek Chub lure.

By day's end, Perry had reportedly landed a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth that would haunt bass fishermen for generations.

The fish was weighed on certified scales, entered in a Field & Stream fishing contest, and eventually recognized as a world record.

Perry collected $75 worth of sporting goods. According to his account, his family ate the bass over two nights.

And that's where the story gets interesting.

The original contest paperwork disappeared. Photographs surfaced decades later, but none conclusively settled the mystery. Perry's fishing partner largely vanished from the historical record. And the fish itself was long gone.

Nearly a century later, Perry's catch remains one of the great benchmarks in bass fishing.

Let’s race ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 23XI Racing
10/11/2026

Let’s race ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 23XI Racing

Charlotte brought the bank.No. 67 brought the bill. ⚡️
10/10/2026

Charlotte brought the bank.
No. 67 brought the bill. ⚡️

10/08/2026

Ambitious dinner plan.

David Watmough of Reel Monsters Ltd shares footage of a goliath tigerfish, known locally as mbenga, caught on the Congo River. According to Watmough, this fish will be shared with a nearby village. He says he keeps roughly 10 fish a year to help feed the community and releases most of his other catches.

The goliath tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath) can exceed 100 pounds and comes equipped with enormous, interlocking teeth that make you grateful somebody invented long handled pliers. Native to the Congo Basin, it’s a powerful freshwater predator built to hunt in heavy current.

Check out for more footage & stories.

They don't call sandhill cranes the ribeye of the sky for nothing.In our latest Field & Stream Adventure, Mack Mella (Go...
10/08/2026

They don't call sandhill cranes the ribeye of the sky for nothing.

In our latest Field & Stream Adventure, Mack Mella (Gone All Season) heads into Interior Alaska for four days of sandhill cranes working the fields, ducks pouring into the decoys, grouse hunting, and his first Arctic grayling on the line.

The full video is out now on our YT channel.

This giant 1,116-pound bluefin tuna just made fishing history in New Hampshire, outweighing the current state record by ...
10/07/2026

This giant 1,116-pound bluefin tuna just made fishing history in New Hampshire, outweighing the current state record by more than 100 pounds. But it won't gain record status because of a technicality.

Angler Brandon McGirl landed the enormous bluefin tuna during an overnight fishing charter with Captain Jamie Savage of Savage Charters.

“We motored out and put lines in right at midnight (Sunday, October 3),” Savage tells Field & Stream. “We fished all day with no bites. I probably rigged 50 different tuna baits just trying to find out what they wanted.”

Then, at 7 p.m. after a full day of fishing, one of their reels started running. “He ran fast and peeled off about 800 yards of line,” Savage recalls. “We could tell he was a big fish.”

Savage followed the fish for a half mile and anchored out. McGirl fought it for 10 minutes before bringing it boatside.

The bluefin was too big for Savage’s tuna door, so they towed it through the water all the way back to Rye Harbor to have it weighed.

At 1,116 pounds, it outweighed the current bluefin state record by 154 pounds. But Savage would find out later that the fish still didn’t qualify for the top spot.

“We were less than 10 miles off the New Hampshire coast,” he says. “But because we were a couple miles beyond the state water line, it won’t make the books.”

Official record or not, the bluefin sets a new benchmark for off-shore angling in New Hampshire. Congratulations to Captain Jamie Savage and Brandon McGirl on an oustanding catch.

Full Story By Travis Hall for Field & Stream.

The field just lit up. ⚡ Meet Blue Blade, the Field & Stream 23XI Racing No. 67 Corey Heim will drive at Charlotte this ...
10/06/2026

The field just lit up. ⚡ Meet Blue Blade, the Field & Stream 23XI Racing No. 67 Corey Heim will drive at Charlotte this weekend.

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The turkey woods lost one of the very best.Col. Tom Kelly died at 99 after a remarkable life as a veteran of two wars, a...
10/06/2026

The turkey woods lost one of the very best.

Col. Tom Kelly died at 99 after a remarkable life as a veteran of two wars, an Alabama forester, and one of the finest writers ever to put turkey hunting on paper. At 46, with some encouragement from his wife Helen, he wrote “The Tenth Legion.” Turkey hunters have been passing it around ever since.

Field & Stream was fortunate to publish Tom over the years. In February 1995, we ran “The Turning,” his story about walking his daughter Laura down the aisle. Tom liked to joke that it was the only wedding ever covered by Field & Stream. It was also a fine example of what made him such a good writer. The outdoors may have gotten you into his stories, but they were usually about something bigger.

At 90, he was still talking turkeys with us. He told Field & Stream, “Turkey hunting is the only thing I know of that’s as much fun at 80 as it was at 20.”

This spring, the dogwoods will bloom and the gobblers will sound off just as they always have. For the first time in nearly a century, Tom won’t be around to hear them.

We’ll miss you, Colonel.

10/06/2026

This huntin blind ain’t no joke!

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