Scroll through social media during deer season and it’s nothing but booners, booners, and more booners. Most of these are taken by good, skilled hunters, but they lucked into a big deer that just happened to call their hunting land home. In most cases, they’ll kill one deer like that in their lifetime, and the remainder of their hunting career will be filled with “respectable” bucks.
But there’s another class of hunters. Respectfully, and lightheartedly, I call them the big-rack fat cats. (Big-time deer hunters who consistently kill record class deer.) And while I’m not a member of their ranks, I’ve studied them immensely, talked to dozens of them, poured over record books, and reached a set list of conclusions.
The truth is, very few hunters have ever seen a whitetail worthy of the books. Even fewer have killed one. There just aren’t many on the landscape. Of those
