Clay Hanback, Author at Big Deer

2 03, 2020

New Hampshire: New Record Lake Trout Biggest Ever Caught IN New England!

Clay Hanback2020-06-10T09:14:51-04:00March 2nd, 2020|BigDeer|Comments Off on New Hampshire: New Record Lake Trout Biggest Ever Caught IN New England!

This is a hunting site, but a record fish deserves a shout out. From New Hampshire Fish & Game: On Tuesday, February 25, Thomas Knight of Meredith, New Hampshire, caught an enormous lake trout while ice fishing on Big Diamond Pond in West Stewartstown, NH. The fish was certified as a new state record, eclipsing the one established in 1958. After a lengthy battle, Knight was able to bring the fish onto the ice and marvel at its size. An experienced lake trout angler, Knight knew that the prevailing record was 28 pounds and his fish seemed to be much bigger. After a few phone calls to some close fishing buddies, Knight made his next call to Andy Schafermeyer, a [...]

28 02, 2020

Sheds to Velvet: How Deer Antlers Grow Each Year

Clay Hanback2020-06-10T09:14:51-04:00February 28th, 2020|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Sheds to Velvet: How Deer Antlers Grow Each Year

One time on a cold, steely day in January, I sat in a tree hoping for last-ditch crack at a buck, or at least a shot at one more doe for the freezer. As the gray blanket of dusk settled into the grain field I watched, an 8-point buck snuck out of the timber, nose to the wind, wary after four months of human intrusion in his woods. Satisfied the coast was clear, the survivor took a few more steps and hooked a sapling on the field edge. That’s when the left side of his rack fell off his head. In all my years in the woods, I had run across a few one-antlered bucks, but this was the first [...]

25 02, 2020

Vintage Big Deer: Marlon Hale’s 247” Ohio Crossbow Monster

Clay Hanback2020-06-10T09:14:51-04:00February 25th, 2020|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Vintage Big Deer: Marlon Hale’s 247” Ohio Crossbow Monster

Back around 2007, Muzzy Broadheads introduced the “200 Club Monster Buck Display.” This select club highlighted a group of bowhunters who had recently harvested a whitetail buck that scored more than 200 net inches with a Muzzy broadhead. According to Muzzy at the time, fewer than 2 percent of all Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young certified entries score over 200 inches, so the 200 Club is a very small but elite group of bowhunters. Here’s one of those stories. Marlon Hale glassed a buck in Carroll County, OH the summer before the 2005 deer season, but he wasn’t all that impressed. The animal was a long way off, and Marlon couldn’t tell how many points it had. He [...]

21 02, 2020

8 Best Tips For Sighting-In A Hunting Rifle

Clay Hanback2020-06-10T09:14:51-04:00February 21st, 2020|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting, Remington|Comments Off on 8 Best Tips For Sighting-In A Hunting Rifle

Right now is the perfect time to grab your hunting rifles and head to the shooting range. The joint will be empty this time of year, especially on weekdays. You can test different brands of ammo, sight-in a new scope or just practice with your old rigs without a crowd of shooters breathing down your neck for bench time like they would come September on the brink of another hunting season. The more you fine-tune your rifles and shoot in the off-season, the better your chances of a one-shot game kill this fall. Here are 8 tips that will get you on zero and ready extra-early. Easy Save-Money Sight-In Rather than sighting-in the old way--firing a bunch of bullets at [...]

18 02, 2020

Virginia Senate Defeats Northam/Bloomberg “Assault Weapons” Bill

Clay Hanback2020-06-10T09:14:51-04:00February 18th, 2020|BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Hunting News, Remington|1 Comment

Finally, some good news from my home state. In a statement the NRA said: Thanks to Second Amendment supporters around the Commonwealth ceaselessly voicing their opposition to a sweeping gun ban, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-5 to reject House Bill 961 on February 17th. Bloomberg’s House majority in the General Assembly is not going to deliver their most coveted agenda item to their billionaire master. House Bill 961 was a comprehensive ban on many commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, suppressors, and standard capacity magazines. The original bill sought to impose a licensing and registration scheme for citizens who wish to keep affected firearms they lawfully owned prior to the ban, with felony penalties for noncompliance. It also broadly banned any part that could [...]

About Clay Hanback

New Hampshire: New Record Lake Trout Biggest Ever Caught IN New England!

Sheds to Velvet: How Deer Antlers Grow Each Year

Vintage Big Deer: Marlon Hale’s 247” Ohio Crossbow Monster

8 Best Tips For Sighting-In A Hunting Rifle

Virginia Senate Defeats Northam/Bloomberg “Assault Weapons” Bill