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28 07, 2014

Trail-Cam Monday: Big Buck is Back!

2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 28th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|5 Comments

A hunter from somewhere in the Midwest has this great buck on camera. Mike: We were calling him the Big 9 (his picture from 2013 below) but I think he needs a new name now. I'll take name suggestions from the BIG DEER bloggers. History is, the buck showed up in 2013 and appeared on only one camera 2 different days in late July--then we never saw him again. This year he's been on 2 cameras every couple days since June when we able to identify him (we run cameras year-around). Any guesses on potential score (and age) based on his pics from 2013 to this year? Again, what’s a good new name for this buck?

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28 07, 2014

Arizona: Eco-Terrorism on Public Land

2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 28th, 2014|BigDeer|5 Comments

Someone has been purposely placing sharpened rebar on and near forest roads in the Happy Jack area of central Arizona. Spiked pieces of rebar have slashed at least 8 tires. “The end of the rebar has been flattened and sharpened to a point and the exposed point has been painted to blend in with the road surface,” said Mogollon Rim District Ranger Linda Wadleigh. “The objects pose a serious threat to everyone, and that doesn’t just mean people recreating on a motorcycle or off-highway vehicle, it includes people walking, hiking and even wildlife. We are taking this very seriously and asking the public to keep an eye out and report suspicious activity in the area.” Who would do something like [...]

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24 07, 2014

Wisconsin: First Crossbow Deer Season 2014

2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 24th, 2014|BigDeer, Bowhunting, Hunting News|10 Comments

Wisconsin is the latest major whitetail state to allow crossbows during the regular archery season, which opens September 13. A crossbow license costs $24 for a resident and $160 for an out-of-stater. Up until 10 years ago, this would have been big news, and it would have caused a firestorm amongst bowhunters, many pro-crossbow and a fierce minority anti-crossbow. But when Governor Scott Walker signed the crossbow bill late last year and the Wisconsin Assembly passed it on a 91-0 vote, there was hardly a whimper. Crossbows are here to stay in most archery seasons across the U.S. and people, some begrudgingly, have come to accept that. We have a lot of hard-core bowhunters from Wisconsin on the blog, and we have [...]

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23 07, 2014

Is It Safe to Hunt in Mexico?

2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 23rd, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Hunting News|9 Comments

Thirty years ago American hunters freely crossed the border to hunt for big deer in Mexico. Just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, American hunters had huge leases, and on those ranches they grew and shot trophy whitetails, notably huge, wide-racked 10- and 12-point typicals. Farther west, Americans crossed at Nogales, Arizona or flew into Hermosillo to hunt the state of Sonora for giant desert mule deer, and Coues whitetails in the mountains. From the 1970s through the 1990s, Mexico was a deer hunter’s paradise: Cheap to travel there, lease land, stay in a hacienda on a ranch for a few weeks each January (when the weather is perfect and the bucks rut) and shoot big deer. Then came the drug wars [...]

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