Big Deer Blog

Today’s guest blog from our friend Derek, an excellent bowhunter from North Dakota: Hi Mike: It has been a roller coaster season, up-down-up, for me this year. Opening night (Sept. 1) I had my 7 year old daughter with me in the ground blind, her first time coming along on a bowhunt. We saw a few does, fawns, and smaller bucks come in close and it was awesome seeing how she enjoyed it. I enjoyed a few more evening hunts in that blind and in another stand, seeing plenty of promising action but no mature bucks close enough. On September 15th I was once again in my blind and one of my target bucks, a wide 8, showed up with an hour left of [...]

Mike: I’m sick. I shot a doe the other night but couldn’t find her. I looked all night and for the next day and half. Some blood at first, but then nothing. I feel so bad I’m going stop hunting for the rest of the year. Just wanted you to know, because I can tell from your TV show that being ethical and respectful means a lot to you.--John John: A lot of people who are going about hunting the wrong way would have poked around a little bit and said, "What the hell, it's just a doe, I've got more tags…" But you didn't and I applaud you for that. Losing either a doe or a 10-point buck is [...]

From the Leader Register: What’s it like to walk up on a buck of a lifetime? Webster High School science teacher Greg Widiker knows. Widiker had been watching the deer on trail cameras and scouting since 2014… 2015 the buck got a lot bigger and was estimated to be 4 years old... By 2016 the buck had grown a drop tine, and this year, now estimated to be 6 years old, drop tines were on both beams. “I was definitely very aware of him and the last two years the focus was definitely on him. He was the only deer I was going to shoot,” said Widiker. Greg shot the 16-point beast on 9/17/17, click here for the full story. [...]