Big Deer Blog

Deer and Deer Hunting reports that this incredible buck—look at that mass and palmation!—was hit in Walker County (north of Birmingham) the other evening by a fellow named Bryan Diehl, who was the punter on the University of Alabama’s 1992 national championship football team. What that means for tonight’s college football title game, I don’t know. The rut is just getting kicking down in Alabama, so this big boy was undoubtedly dogging a doe across the highway when he met his demise. Word is that official scorers will put a tape to this great rack soon, and DDH will let us know the score asap.

With deer season winding down, the bird hunting is just getting good down in South Texas, but these quail hunters got more than they bargained for. According to the Daily Caller, “Former adviser to George W. Bush and campaign strategist Karl Rove went quail hunting in Texas over his Christmas vacation and ended up discovering two illegal immigrants.” Story says that the illegals, dressed in black ominous clothing, were in pretty bad shape health-wise. Knowing they couldn’t hide forever from the hunters and their dogs, they eventually gave up and were apprehended by Border Patrol. This is not an isolated incident, as landowners, ranchers and hunters have been dealing with this for years in South Texas. While I have never encountered any illegals [...]