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22 04, 2016

Earth Day 2016: Thank You Hunters!

2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00April 22nd, 2016|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|1 Comment

Happy Earth Day weekend, I hope you can get out and shoot a turkey or do some fishing. You deserve it, because you are one of America’s top environmentalists and conservationists. For more than 80 years, generations of sportsmen have paid more than $13.7 billion for on-the-ground projects in every state to protect the environment and our fish and wildlife. If you see a greenie-weenie environmentalist strutting around and preening on this Earth Day, tell them to stick that in their pipe and smoke it. Also point them to this article by two of America’s top deer biologists, Drs. Larry Marchinton and Karl Miller. Excerpt: In the United States roughly 3 million white-tailed deer are harvested each year from a [...]

22 04, 2016

Deer Management: 18 Tips for Great Food Plots

2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00April 22nd, 2016|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|5 Comments

Time to start prepping and planting your plots. To grow better greens and attract more bucks than ever, remember these tips: --Rather than planting several 3- to 5-acre fields like deer managers did the old days, scatter 5 to 10 smaller plots across your land. Green strips and pockets of ¼- to one-acre max are easier to plant and maintain. Small plots are all the rage with the best deer biologists/managers these days. Turn whatever open fields and spots you have on your land into small food plots.   --Think back to your past hunts on the property. Whitetails are habitual animals that come and go in the same places season after season. Where have you seen the most deer [...]

20 04, 2016

Trail-Cam Mystery Solved: Kansas Giant Scored 208

2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00April 20th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management|Comments Off on Trail-Cam Mystery Solved: Kansas Giant Scored 208

A couple of months ago, I re-posted this photo and asked if anyone knew more about it. The Antler Collector Mike C. saw it and sent this “after” picture. Caleb Gillespie tagged the giant during the 2013 Kansas season…scored 208” non-typical. Another big deer mystery solved. Thanks Mike and great buck Caleb.

18 04, 2016

Hunters Beware: Lone Star Tick Can Cause Meat Allergy

2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00April 18th, 2016|BigDeer, Deer Hunting|2 Comments

I was talking to a young lady, Katie, at a turkey hunting event here in Virginia last weekend. “I’d sure like to have one of those burgers, but I can’t eat red meat,” she said. “Really?” I asked. “Yeah, I was working on an environmental project down in the Carolinas a few years ago, and got bitten by a tick. Soon after I ate a steak and got really sick. Long story short, an allergist did a test and found out the tick bite had caused me to become allergic to red meat. It's terrible!” A bite from the Lone Star tick can cause the alpha-gal allergy that Katie and thousands of other people have developed. In Katie’s case, while [...]

14 04, 2016

VIDEO: How to Clean a Hunting Rifle

2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00April 14th, 2016|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads|1 Comment

Jim emailed me about the video we produced on cleaning a rifle. He said he watched it, followed our steps to a tee, let the rifle sit awhile and then went to the range to sight-in again. "I have killed a lot of deer with this rifle over the years, but it never really shot all that great," he said. "Two and a half inches is about the best group I could ever get. But after cleaning the barrel like John advised in the video, the rifle now shoots just over an inch MOA." A thorough cleaning can do that, especially if you have neglected your rifle's barrel lately. Our video, featuring the expertise of Remington's John Fink, runs about [...]

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