Big Deer Blog

We’ve been tracking our friend Kelly’s shed hunting for weeks, here’s his latest field report: Mike: Missed one weekend because of a bought with vertigo, but made up for it this past weekend. Only walked on Saturday as to not overdo it and had my personal best day--picked 41 antlers! Three matched sets, and one goofy antler, my favorite. I did match 5 other sets when I got home against antlers I had found earlier this year. The one antler on the hood of the truck scores in the mid 70s, very heavy, we searched the area for 2 hours trying to match it, with no luck. Loved your last post of the massive Canadian antler. My dream is to [...]

This time of year it is always fun to open my social media on Monday morning and see what bone was found over the weekend: Big Game Illustrated posted these monster sheds that Quinten found in northern Saskatchewan. Like many racks there, the bulk of last summer's growth went into that  incredible mass on a 7x7 frame. The number of deer overall, and the number of giant bucks roaming the bush, are down the last 5 years, but see why I love hunting up there so? The potential of a world-class buck like this showing up is why I keep going back during the tough years. Thanks to Shedheads for tagging me with this one: This photo is fuzzy but [...]