Venado Grande (Big Deer)! This 30-inch-wide monster was shot at El Puerto Ranch in Mexico, old mature buck of a lifetime. A more impressive whitetail you will never see. Very few whitetails grow a rack this wide--what is your widest rack ever?
This post from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Facebook makes me proud to be a Virginian, a Christian and a deer hunter. Clyde Roberts, you are a great man and an inspiration to all of us: 102 year-old Clyde Roberts made the 20-foot climb to his Bedford County treestand platform. About 4:30 p.m. a buck appeared along the woodline and began working a scrape. One of America's oldest - and perhaps the oldest - active hunters touched off the shot. The buck bounded away but fell after less than 40 yards. The following week, Mr. Roberts dropped a mature doe at 144 yards with a perfectly placed shot with his .270. Clyde's hearing may not be the best but [...]
November 21, 2015. It was opening morning of the Fort Knox quota hunt. I climbed into my tree stand in my designated area and heard grunting and leaves crunching all around as I awaited daylight. As it got lighter, the deer movement stopped. Around 8:30 I caught a glimpse of movement and quickly saw a coyote sneaking through the thicket. I raised my 20-gauge Ultra Slug Hunter and fired a fatal shot on the coyote. About 9:10 a doe walked under my stand, and then nothing else till 9:45, when 6 does came running underneath me, chased by 3 bucks! Five of the does continued on, but one stopped and tried to hide in the thicket. The bucks were all over that thicket looking for her. The-cat-and mouse game went [...]
From our friend KClap in southern Virginia: Hello Mike: Awhile back you posted our story of the 6 of us, all still-hunters, and our food plot strategies. Well, we had an awesome year! Happy to share I caught up with this 10-pointer named "Zeus.” Shot him with my Remington .270 as he chased does hard opening morning. My wife, who just started hunting last year, took this nice buck with a muzzleloader the day before. So proud of her! While I'm grateful for what came my way, I was most happy when I heard her shoot! Her smile says it all. She worked her tail off all summer, planting food plots, cutting trails, fighting chiggers, ticks and poison ivy, all [...]
From our good friend Matt “Flatlander” Cheever, who has been with us on the BIG DEER blog since day one: Hi Mike, just got a picture of a three-legged buck, have never seen him in our area before so he’s traveled a ways to get here. Wondering what the other BIG DEER bloggers’ thoughts are? Shoot him out of mercy? Let him live as he’s made it this far and seems healthy? Both scenarios cross my mind and I’ll probably not know until he’s in front of me to see how he really looks on the hoof, but I’m curious as to what others think? I may never see him again but thought he was unique. I’d like to see [...]