2 07, 2014

Trail Cam: Huge Drop-Tine Buck Growing!

2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 2nd, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|7 Comments

A hunter has this drop-tine giant, my dream buck, coming to his mineral station. I hope this buck hangs around for another month and lets the guy get more pictures because I want to see what this stud looks like with a fully developed rack. If the sight of that big boy, and the uncertainty and anticipation of what lurks in your woods, is not enough to get you fired up for this fall I don't know what is. Good luck to the hunter who sent these awesome pictures. Send me your cam shots for all to enjoy, I'll never reveal your name or location.

1 07, 2014

Summer Food Plot Tips

2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 1st, 2014|BigDeer|Comments Off on Summer Food Plot Tips

If you plant food plots for deer on your land or lease, they should be in and coming up green, especially in regions where we’ve gotten good moisture this spring. (Here in Virginia, I can’t remember a year with more rain through June.) If you plan to put in a few fall (cool-season) plots to attract deer for archery season, you won’t do that for another month or two. Time to chill and do some fishing and golfing, right? Yeah, love the summer man, but don’t neglect to set aside a couple more weekends for work detail. A little more sweat now means more deer, and bucks, on your 50 to 500 acres this season. Mow Clover Deer will keep small plots (½ acre or so) [...]

30 06, 2014

Mule Deer Fawn in Road!

2020-06-10T09:22:49-04:00June 30th, 2014|BigDeer|4 Comments

This year I’ve heard about more than a few newborn whitetails literally dropped in a road by a mama doe, but this is the first little mule deer I’ve seen in that predicament. Eric posted on Facebook that he ran up on this little deer the other day, on a road in  Washington State I believe. He gently picked it up and carried it off the road and back into the woods. Hopefully the doe was hanging around and went back to get her baby when Eric drove off. I’d think she did. This tiny muley seems to have more spots in a more distinct linear pattern than your average whitetail fawn, beautiful and interesting.  

27 06, 2014

First Trail Camera Buck 2014!

2020-06-10T09:22:49-04:00June 27th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|6 Comments

One of our bloggers who shall remain anonymous sent us the first good buck of 2014. This buck’s antlers might grow 1/8” to 1/2” per day for the next 2 months, until the rack is fully developed in early to mid-August. Those brow tines will be killer. Nothing fires us up more and seems to make the season get here a little quicker than looking at trail-camera images from around the country. Email me your pictures to share. As always I’ll never publish your name and certainly not the state/area where your cam bucks are living. That’s your secret and I’d never blow your cover.

26 06, 2014

Weird Racks: Peruke Deer Antlers

2020-06-10T09:22:49-04:00June 26th, 2014|BigDeer|1 Comment

Mike: I know how you like wild racks, check out this one! Have you ever seen anything like that before? Tom from Iowa I did a little research. A QDMA post says this crazy skull was picked up in Maryland some years ago. The taxidermist that now has it said a couple of hunters had seen the buck alive, but it was “acting stupid.” A year later the buck was found dead. Examination found that the right antler had sprouted up in a perfect cauliflower, but the left antler had grown inward, back into the skull and down into the brain pan and eye socket. Zoologist and antler expert Dr. George Bubenik said this type of unusual growth is known as a “peruke,” [...]

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