Big Deer Blog

Here’s an off-the-wall tactic to try one day this November, courtesy of my friend Eliot Strommen (Luke’s dad) who hunts strictly w/a longbow out on the Milk River, Montana. It’s similar to rattling, but w/a twist. Eliot glasses for a mature, rut-crazed buck crossing an alfalfa field, swaggering alone or trailing a doe. He then eases into the timber downwind of the deer, glides lightly through the woods and creeps as close as he dares to a spot where the buck can hear him. He sets up behind a tree, picks up a stick and starts cracking trees and whipping brush, making all sorts of racket. For the interesting next step, he picks up his right foot and paws one, two, three….then [...]

Happy Earth Day, I hope you can get out and shoot a turkey, do some fishing or just take a hike in the woods and revel in God's great outdoors. You deserve it, because you are one of America’s top environmentalists and conservationists. By paying excise taxes on guns, ammo and bows, we hunters have generated $6.8 billion for wildlife conservation since 1937. For more than 80 years, sportsmen have paid more than $13.7 billion for habitat projects in every state to protect the environment and our fish and wildlife. If you see a greenie-weenie environmentalist strutting around and preening on this Earth Day, tell them to stick that in their pipe and smoke it. And tell them to read this excerpt [...]

They have been talking about totally banning lead ammo for hunting in Cali for years, even decades, and now it looks like they are finally going to do it. The NSSF says: The California Fish and Game Commission…adopted regulations to implement a law that will ban the use of traditional lead-component ammunition for all hunting in the state by July 1, 2019. The implementation will involve multiple phases, beginning with the 2015 hunting season. What has started in California could become reality elsewhere as anti-hunting groups use the supposed harm caused by traditional ammunition as a wedge issue to further their ultimate political agenda of banning hunting across the country. Get the facts in this video. Nothing they do out [...]

What we do know is that this 28 pointer was shot in Noble County, Indiana last November. I got an email from a reliable source that said a taxidermist who had seen the buck (maybe the guy who is mounting it, but I don’t know that for sure) said the bases measure a hair over 10 inches. You would think that we’d know more about this giant by now, but other than a few Facebook posts with this picture and few others, no story that I have seen has come out in magazines, local newspapers or legit websites like BIG DEER. That has led some doubters to say this is a game farm deer. That may or may not be true—every [...]