Editor’s Note: We’re highlighting all of the bucks that ran in August’s Deer of the Year feature. Each week we’ll post the full story and extra photos right here on the BBZ blog. So exactly how do you go about bowhunting a buck that virtually an entire county full of hunters is aware of? If you ask Shawn Evangelista, it takes equal parts cooperation, trail camera reconnaissance, and a bunch of luck.

By the time bow season opened last fall, most of the serious bowhunters in Ashtabula County, Ohio, knew there was a giant in their midst. Hundreds of trail camera photos …read more