Once you decide to target a real monarch—the buck of a lifetime—it means putting all your chips in the game. It means making life-altering sacrifices. You have to be dedicated, focused and determined. Are you ready? Here are steps five and six of a 10-step series to help you kill the biggest, best buck of your life.

Once you decide to target a real monarch—the buck of a lifetime—it means putting all your chips in the game. It means making life-altering sacrifices. You have to be dedicated, focused and determined. Are you ready? Here are steps three and four of a 10-step series to help you kill the biggest, best buck of your life.

Once you decide to target a real monarch—the buck of a lifetime—it means putting all your chips in the game. It means making life-altering sacrifices. You have to be dedicated, focused and determined. Are you ready? During the next 5 weeks I’ll provide 10 steps—two per week—to get you on track to killing the biggest, best buck of your life.

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I’ve seen photos of whitetails with double drop-tines, but now one is speed walking right for my shooting lane. His nose is inches off the ground, and I can read his intentions: Find a hot doe.

The lush food plot I was perched over glistened like an effervescent oasis, juxtaposed against a bland backdrop of leafless buck brush and murky conifers.

My body was stuck in the Winnipeg, Manitoba, airport, but my mind refused to vacate the bear stand back in Waterhen. Same country. Same province. But emotionally, the two were worlds apart.

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