When John Dudley was a kid, still learning how to hunt in Illinois, he had an encounter with a big buck that changed the trajectory of his bowhunting life. Dudley was hunting with a compound bow that ...

The rub was just a scratch on an skinny aspen sapling. But the diminutive buck sign clearly had my buddy Tom, a veteran big-woods deer hunter, excited. The two of us spread out to look for other ...