SOMETIMES YOU ONLY NEED 7 ACRES

Heavy horns protrude out from behind a cedar mere moments after Bruce Laudick hears the gnarliest buck grunt of his life. He immediately sees it’s a big deer but doesn’t realize it’s the buck he calls “Ghost.”

The story doesn’t begin there, though. It starts back in 1975 when Laudick’s dad introduced him to hunting. Unfortunately, two years later, his father passed.

In 1995, nearly two decades after his first trip to the deer woods, Laudick purchased