Big Deer Blog

Some years ago when I was writing a lot for Outdoor Life (I created their Big Buck Zone blog and wrote it exclusively for several years before I moved on to Big Deer) I received a packet of stories from somebody at the "Muzzy 200 Club" (author unknown, but as I recall, an employee of the club at the time). This club, which now appears to be inactive, was made up of an elite group of bowhunters who had killed 200-inch whitetails with Muzzy broadheads. This is one of those stories that I found in my archives, and the first of several that I’ll reprint in coming weeks. We can never get enough classic stories of how 200-inch bucks were [...]

Got this question one time from a hunter named Dave: Mike: One day I was sneaking into my bow stand as quietly as I could. When I got about 60 yards away, I looked up and some guy was in my tree stand, hunting! He waved at me to get away. I didn’t know what to do, so I just stood there. He kept waving and waving me off. I got so damn mad I was steaming. I just left and I felt bad about it and still do. I feel like I wasn’t much of a man that day, but what else could I done? This was on public land. Dave: Stop beating yourself up, you did the right thing. [...]