6 01, 2015

Bucks Are Shedding Antlers!

2020-06-10T09:19:52-04:00January 6th, 2015|BigDeer|1 Comment

Saw on Facebook where a hunter named Trevor found these big sheds one day last week in Iowa. And John wrote to me and said: “(Antlers) already dropping in southern Wisconsin! Old massive broken off warrior!" It’s getting to be shed-hunting time! Have bucks started dropping antlers in your area? Have you started looking yet? Here are some great shed-hunting pointers when you do start hunting for bone. Send me pictures of any big sheds you find this spring, good luck.      

5 01, 2015

Indiana: Late-Season Giant Bow Buck!

2020-06-10T09:19:52-04:00January 5th, 2015|BigDeer|1 Comment

Young hunter Nolan Neace sent this to the Sportsman Channel Facebook: Just wanted to share... I shot this late season monster on 12/29/14 with my Hoyt Faktor at 40 yards; 13 points with drop tine. Northern Indiana. Great buck Nolan, as I always say on Big Deer TV, “hunt hard till the bitter end, you never know…” Your reward was a dream buck with a third-beam split drop, I don't think I've ever seen one like that before.      

5 01, 2015

Whitetail Deer: Third-Rut Photos from Maryland

2020-06-10T09:19:52-04:00January 5th, 2015|BigDeer|3 Comments

Bob sent this series of cam photos from Eastern Maryland taken about midnight on December 27, 2014. They confirm that in most parts of the nation whitetails do some breeding from mid-October through December/January. The majority of the breeding takes place in early to mid-November, during the “peak rut,” and that is when most of the adult does are impregnated. But if a doe is not impregnated then, she’ll recycle into estrus some 28 days later, during a “late rut” that typically occurs in early December. These pictures prove that there is a “third rut,” or at least some final sporadic breeding going on in late December. An adult doe that is somehow not impregnated during her first and second cycles [...]

2 01, 2015

Indiana: Big-Bodied Buck, Two Big Hunting Lessons

2020-06-10T09:19:53-04:00January 2nd, 2015|BigDeer|Comments Off on Indiana: Big-Bodied Buck, Two Big Hunting Lessons

Hello Mike: On the 28th day of the October 2013 Indiana archery season I arrowed a buck that I had never seen before. I had 9 different bucks on camera but no images of this particular buck. It just goes to show how mature bucks will travel out of their core area in search of that first estrus doe, so always be on the lookout and ready. He came in at 30 yards to a drag line I had drug to the stand. This had been only my second sit in this particular set, which also brings the point that while over-hunting the same stand can definitely hurt your hunting, not over-hunting it can bring great results. Keep up the good [...]

30 12, 2014

Garage-Sale Drop-Tine Buck!

2020-06-10T09:19:53-04:00December 30th, 2014|BigDeer|3 Comments

Although I got my first drop-tine buck this year, I have NOT, it seems, satisfied my lust to shoot another one. Emails like this one from our friend and Montana trad bowhunter Luke Strommen still fire me up:  Mike: Saw this buck in a house the other day and thought of you.  Double drops and all kinds of cool points!  The man that owned it found it at a local garage sale maybe 10 years back and bought it. It came from somewhere out here on the Milk River.

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