Ohio: 190-Inch Sheds!
Chasing Trophy Whitetails just shared this photo on Facebook. Kody found this set with a rough score of 190. Wow!
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Minnesota Hunters To Feed Deer
From Twincities.com: Sometime early next week, men and women will fan out across the woods of northern Minnesota, many on snowmobiles, and begin laying out feed for wild whitetail deer. A million pounds of feed, give or take. As much as $170,000 can buy…. "We're at 130 volunteers and climbing fast," Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, said Wednesday…. Whose idea to feed the deer? Hunters, who put pressure on the state to do something because this brutal winter is surely killing some deer in the northern zones. Feeding from now through the spring green up will help the animals survive. The money for the project will come from a fund established from proceeds of hunting [...]
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4 Shed Hunting Tips
Got this email from longtime Big Deer blogger Dan Hermon a while back: Mike: It's getting close to time to hit the woods and crop fields for some sheds. What advice do you have in terms of shed hunting? I know they fall off at different times and different locations, but do you have any tricks of the trade to share? I'll be taking my son out again this year and the only advice I can really give him is to put in the miles and search every step of the way. I thought the best deer blog in the country and its readers might have good advice for us! Thanks, Dan Here are 4 great tips. Readers, please add [...]
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How Rare is a Doe With Antlers?
Mike: One day last fall I swear I saw a doe with a small set of fork-horn antlers, but I didn’t shoot. Have you ever seen a doe with antlers?—Steve from MO Steve, no I have never seen one in the wild, though I’ve posted a few on the blog. According to VA biologists, there are two types of antlered whitetail does. The first is a female deer with velvet-covered antlers like this one. This animal usually has a normal female reproductive tract and is capable of bearing fawns. The second type is a female deer with polished antlers. This animal is actually a male “pseudo-hermaphrodite.” It has the external genitalia of a female, but has male sex organs internally. [...]
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