Big Deer Blog

Over the past 8 years, President Obama has been the firearms industry’s best salesman, with gun and ammo sales breaking record after record for months. But you ain’t seen nothing yet if Hillary wins on November 8. From the Washington Post: Now the Las Vegas gun store Westside Armory is predicting a Hillary Clinton victory in November, and it has a message for customers: Buy now, because things are going to get expensive. In an advertisement over the weekend in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Westside Armory said it was holding a “Pre-Hillary Sale” on tactical rifles, warning of a price surge if the Democratic nominee wins the presidential election next month. “Don’t wait!” the advertisement reads. There is little question that [...]

One of the biggest mistakes I used to make, and sometimes still do, was to find a mother lode of rubs and scrapes, rush in and hang a tree stand based on the sign. Sound familiar? Sometimes it works out, but most of the time it doesn’t. Why? Because a ridge or bottom where bucks lay down a ton of sign, especially scrapes beginning later this month, is where they spend a lot of time at night, and hence are apt to show up after shooting light. Something ODMA biologist Kip Adams told me once stuck: “Why sit and watch scrapes where a 10-pointer is likely to show up at night? Why not watch a heavy trail or edge of [...]