3 04, 2015

Iowa: Double-Beam Buck Scored 219″

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 3rd, 2015|Big Deer Stories|Comments Off on Iowa: Double-Beam Buck Scored 219″

Let’s end the week with the story of a 200-inch buck from the Big Deer archives. In November 2011, high-school welding instructor and assistant football coach Paul Hein shot the awesome beast:  Got to my ladder stand at 3:25 pm. Hunting 30 yards from an unpicked corn field and 70 to 100 yards from some bedding areas. Wind was from the NW 10-15 mph and temp was about 40 degrees. I started rattling, grunting and bleating and repeated that every 20-30 minutes. About 4:50 I called again. The wind had calmed down by then. I heard movement a bit to my right and noticed a small buck heading in my direction from the NW. He looked very nervous and kept looking over [...]

2 04, 2015

Indiana: Ban Hunts for Drugged Deer

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 2nd, 2015|BigDeer, Hunting News|13 Comments

 From the INDYSTAR: Owners of Indiana's fenced hunting preserves would be forbidden from selling a deer for a hunt within 24 hours of it being sedated, and only animals born and raised on Indiana deer farms could be hunted. So read two new additions to a bill that would set regulations for captive-deer hunting in Indiana. The bill passed the Indiana Senate's Natural Resources Committee on a 6-3 vote Monday. I have 3 questions: Who are the 3 committee members that voted against this? Who in his right mind would sedate a deer to be sold and hunted? Does greed have no bounds? And the biggest one: Who in the hell would pay money to “hunt” a drugged buck? Who could hang a [...]

1 04, 2015

Norway: Deer Hunters Find 5,000-Year-Old Bows & Arrows

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 1st, 2015|BigDeer|4 Comments

From ScienceNordic: One late August day in 2011 Tord Bretten and his sister Line B. Aukrust came home from an extraordinarily successful hunting trip in Dovrefjell, a mountainous area in central Norway. In addition to a reindeer buck, they had three arrows and two bows that had melted out of a glacier. One of the arrows turned out to be from another reindeer hunt, but the hunt had taken place 5,400 years ago. This is the oldest archaeological find from mountain snowfields in Scandinavia. To think about people with the heart and soul of the hunter like you and me bowhunting deer 5,000 years ago very much like we do today is mind-blowing! This gives me an idea for an [...]

31 03, 2015

Kinessa Johnson: US Army Vet, Wildlife Protector

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00March 31st, 2015|BigDeer|1 Comment

Kinessa Johnson served for 4 years in Afghanistan to protect our country. This week she arrived in Tanzania to fight a different enemy. Her new mission is, as she puts it, “We’re going over there to do some anti-poaching, kill some bad guys, and do some good.” In life after the US Army, Kinessa serves as an anti-poaching advisor with Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (VETPAW), a not-for-profit organization that employs US Veterans to help protect African wildlife from being poached and captured illegally. Kinessa and her cohorts are doing important work. According to VETPAW, nearly 100 African elephants are slaughtered every day for their tusks. Without action, this fabulous species, and others, will be gone from the wild within a decade. The poaching crisis affects [...]

30 03, 2015

Deer Hunting: How to Deal With Pressure

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00March 30th, 2015|BigDeer|1 Comment

Bob L. shot this 16-pointer (164 2/8”) a few years back in Sumner County, Tennessee. The 4½-year-old animal is a great buck anywhere, and a true giant for the area. As such, the tall-racked buck had seen at least 9 times by local hunters that fall. “I knew of at least  12 stands that had been erected prior to the season by people trying to get the big old buck,” Bob said. Takeaway lesson: You might have heard me say it on TV, or read it here on the blog: Pressure is the #1 factor in hunting big deer. The less of it the better. Anytime you can hunt unpressured land, your odds of shooting a mature buck on natural movement [...]

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