Fall is here and that means it’s hunting season! WDML Bucks for Bucks is back again, presented by Midwest Farm & Land Real Estate Company and open to hunters of all ages. This year Bucks for Bucks will run through October AND November, giving you plenty of time to get your buck and enter to win!
To enter, submit a photo of your buck in the form at the bottom of this page and tell us a bit about your hunt. Your entry will be added to our gallery of hunters for your chance to win a prize pack! One winner will be selected per week in October and November.
The Second Annual Bucks for Bucks has concluded! Thank you for participating. Check out our fantastic sponsors and view the gallery of hunters below!
Congratulations to our Bucks for Bucks Winners!
Annie Wehrheim
This is only my second year hunting with a crossbow and my biggest kill yet! I passed up on a smaller buck seconds before this guy came out!
Tyson Phillips
This dandy came chasing a doe in with his nose down, he came up as close as 20 yards on the run. I used the grunt call and he ignored me, as he went to the other side of the tree so I had to change directions grunt called again. He stops!!! Crossbow in hand aim fire!!!! He wobbles and runs 75 yard's. Blessed!
Craig Yohe
I served 24 years in the United States Marine Corp. I enjoy hunting, fishing and spending time with family and friends. This deer was killed during bow season Thursday Nov 7th 2024 in Marion County. Scored 170.
Devan Orrill
This buck came off of family ground to end a 10 year - buckless drought for me. He has been around the ground for at least 3 years with trail camera pics each year. Quick hunt with him cruising through following a young buck and doe around.
Trevor Alexander
I decided to sit in a new stand for the first time since it was put up. Was not expecting to see much. There is a small pond next to the stand at around 6pm a couple small bucks came into the pond at 30 yards. They were watching intently behind them. Suddenly there was some small trees moving violently in the distance. I looked through my binoculars and saw this buck that we had several pictures of. He came to the pond and presented a perfect 30 yard shot. He only went about 70 yards and fell. This is my biggest buck I have harvested with a bow yet.
Jeannie Gunnels
I have many photos of this buck on my trail cams and refer to him as the unicorn buck. He was my pick for this season. On my second trip to the tree stand not thinking I would have an opportunity to even see him yet in the daylight, I rattled him in ! He originally was a twelve pointer but lost a small point this that week. So he is an 11! Thankful and Blessed!
Brianna Manahan
This is my first deer with a bow! He came out at 70 yards and finally came within 30 yards of me. When I pulled the bow back my heart was pounding and I was so nervous. As soon as I released I seen the arrow stay in him and he ran 40 yards. He stopped and I called my husband (who was farming) to tell him I hit one. What seemed like forever he finally took a few steps and dropped! I called my dad and was shaking so bad, it was true buck fever! He looked like an 8 pointer when I shot but when I got to him he turned out to be a 9 pointer with a kicker on the bottom left!
Brandon Buchanan
I have been hunting for the last 5 years, and I made the mistake of head hunting. I have never killed a deer ever until this year. Opening day I went and sat in the deer stand at about 2:30 pm, about 5:30 pm this 8 pointer came walking down the trail. He got within 30 yards of me and i took my shot. He ran about 40 yards if that and was down in the thick it. Great hunt.
Dustin Atchison
First time getting a buck! Second year hunting!
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Clark Satterlee
11-22-24
First time deer hunting in 4 years and first time gun hunting in 10 years. Was able to get out on opening morning of first firearm season. Had a really big doe come by and shot her for meat. Then, after about an hour from the doe, this buck showed up out of no where and I was able the drop him in his tracks. First time I’ve ever “tagged out” haha.
Brandon White
Around kinmundy area
Kayden McGee
If you know me, you know I'm usually hunting baseballs to scoop out of the dirt and throw out my opponents, not hunting deer....
I had been playing a game at Rend Lake College, finished my game and headed home to shower and meet my new niece who had just been born the day before. As I was driving home, headed toward Log Cabin Ln, eating my McDonald's cheeseburger, to my surprise, did I get a dandy. Either way, me deer hunting, deer hunting baseball players, our paths crossed and did not end well for either one of us. Hopefully my last deer hunt with my car!
Teri Rolseth
Her first time ever gun hunting so proud of my wife a 100yd shot and dropped 8 pt buck
Kenny Gill
Wasn’t having any luck Friday or Saturday morning. Didn’t even want to go hunting Saturday evening. So glad I did!! He came out of the woods and I had to get him.
Brynlee Brewer
Brynlee just started hunting three years ago. Last year she got a doe but this year had her heart set on getting a buck! After a rough morning hunt, and not pulling the trigger on another 8 pointer, she got it done that night on this one! Being a kidney cancer survivor, this girl doesn’t back down! We are so proud of her! 🙂
Dalton Campbell
I’ve been watching this buck for a couple years, tons of encounters with him and finally got him this year!
Michelle Biegeleisen
This is my daughter, Kinli Biegeleisen. She is 12 years old. She has been deer hunting for about a year now with no luck. Saturday night 11/23, her and her dad went out and she shot this buck. This was her first deer ever. She shot it on family ground in Iuka. Perfect shot to the heart.
Ryker Tolliver
This was 7 yr old Ryker Tolliver's first year hunting and he was lucky enough to harvest his first ever deer with dad by his side at first light on the last day of the first firearm season! After he put his time in practicing with his gun, he dropped this deer at 87 yards! His excitement was through the roof!!
Cody Corn
Belle Rive Illinois
I went in morning and evenings of 2024 shotgun season and shot this little buck on Saturday Nov 23 on the farm south of Belle rive about 8 miles. My grandpa Mark White and I shared a deer blind and have so much fun hunting together. We donated this to my friends in Ewing who wanted the deer meat. Hunting is so much fun! I can't wait to go again.
Keyton Mitchell
Heard footsteps in the woods behind a creek bed…looked behind me didn’t see antlers patiently waited for the deer to move out of the brush so I could see what it was. Turned out being a wide 10 point buck. Had to wait for him to clear the brush.After he cleared the brush I shot right behind the shoulder.Got down after shooting light to find blood….never found any….hot really concerned I shot a deer and possibly injured it. On the verge of giving up and my grandpa says “you check the field line?” I said “no, it’s really thick.”Got to the field line and looked to my right and he was laying there
Landen Tennant
This old 10 point was taken in Wayne County on opening morning of shotgun season. He had a huge body and not many teeth left. I hunted the area several times during bow season, but this was the first time I laid eyes on him. It’s always a good feeling catching up with a mature deer!
Brittany Meador
Shot this stud behind our house! I had already shot a doe and was waiting to see what else was coming, he popped up across the creek and his antlers were so dark I thought they were branches!
Daniel Droste
This is my husband Daniel Droste, he been watching this deer for a week. He finally got him on opening day as soon as the sun came up
Erin Donoho
Saw this buck across the field. Went down a waterway and figured he was gone. Showed back up along the edge of the woods. Been deer hunting since 1981!!
Jeremy Zerrusen
On November 11th I woke up feeling thankful for my freedom to be able to hunt. I’ve been in my stand all season overlooking a cut cornfield and I decided to change it up this particular morning. I grabbed my climber and decided to sit on an oak flat with an abundance of acorns. Right at daybreak I had 3 does under me eating acorns. At 6:40 this guy came in and turned and headed south. I gave him the “snort-wheeze” and in 20 seconds he was under my stand. I grabbed my compound bow, made a great shot and watched him crash 60 yards from my tree…
Chrystal Lake
I was watching a buck in the field and this one stuck his head out by a pine tree 20ft from me scared me at first when I went to grab my crossbow I hit my cast on the crossbow and he heard me. He was staring right at me so I hurried up and got my crossbow on him and pulled the trigger. Got him with a double lung shot and he dropped after 50yrds.
Matt Tolliver
Awesome hunt with my 12 yr old son Reed Tolliver, we hunted a small permission farm in clay county and this was his 2nd year gun hunting and at 6:55 a.m he harvested his biggest buck to date! What an awesome moment for him but as a father as well!
Baylie Sellers
I drove 4 hours to come back to illinois as I am currently in college in kentucky, it was Friday morning and the first day of shotgun season. He was in a thicket and I could barely see him, just saw his antlers and his nose. I waited for him to move and finally he moved but only to where I could get a shot of. After I aimed and shot he ran to the end of the thicket and dropped. Love hearing the sound of a buck dropping!
Caleb Lusch
Spot and stalk worked out absolutely perfect on November 8! Got to 20 yards on the ground with a compound bow!
Fall is here and that means it’s hunting season! WDML Bucks for Bucks is back again, presented by Midwest Farm & Land Real Estate Company and open to hunters of all ages. This year Bucks for Bucks will run through October AND November, giving you plenty of time to get your buck and enter to win!
