2 04, 2014

Illinois: Goetten Buck “Monster of Mass”

2020-06-10T09:23:03-04:00April 2nd, 2014|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|3 Comments

One time at an outdoor show I bumped into Illinois hunter Chad Goetten, who pulled out this picture of the giant he had shot the previous fall. My jaw dropped. I was amazed then, and still am 10 years later. One of the most impressive wild bucks I have ever seen, and I've seen a bunch of big deer in 30 years of writing and blogging about them. The mass on the 234 7/8-inch, 25-point rack is just freaky: 7-inch bases, and thick as a beer can all way out through the main beams. The 8 mass measurements total nearly 55 inches. Boone and Crockett says the Goetten Buck will go down as one of the top whitetail racks ever recorded in terms of [...]

1 04, 2014

Indiana Man Stalk-Crawls 185” Buck!

2020-06-10T09:23:03-04:00April 1st, 2014|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|9 Comments

  Today’s guest blog is written by Dean Weimer: Roy Mercerr’s “Bed of Pain Buck” Indiana hunter Roy Mercerr got to his 152-acre hunting area considerably late on the morning of November 18, 2013. He parked his vehicle, and he and a buddy set out quickly on a familiar trail toward their chosen stands. They might be late, but at least the north wind was right, blowing their scent back toward the road. A short while into their hike Mercerr looked to his right, down into a low bedding area where a week earlier during the bow season he had spooked a big buck. He saw a huge set of antlers atop a buck that was lying in the middle of [...]

31 03, 2014

Buck Science: Why Deer “Head Bob”

2020-06-10T09:23:03-04:00March 31st, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Science|6 Comments

Dr. Karl Miller and other researchers at the University of Georgia did a study on the whitetail’s vision and confirmed 2 things: 1) a deer’s eyes are well adapted to detect even the slightest movement; and 2) to get a good 3-D look at a strange and stationary object that might present danger (like you standing in the woods or looking like a blob in a tree stand) a deer has to shift its head from side to side and bob it up and down and stare at it from several different angles. What it means as you're hunting: When a doe or buck looks your way, picks you out as a potential predator, and then starts the head ducking and bobbing, freeze. [...]

28 03, 2014

Should an Illuminated Arrow Nock Disqualify this 188” Buck from the Record Book?

2020-06-10T09:23:03-04:00March 28th, 2014|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting|11 Comments

Got this from Sean on Facebook yesterday: “Just wanted to share a story and some photos with you about a buck I was lucky enough to harvest in the 2009 bow season in Wisconsin. This old guy scored 188 6/8" non-typical and was aged at 9 years old by the taxidermist. Because this buck was shot with a 'lighted nock' it is not eligible to be entered into the Pope and Young book. In the end I could really care less because it is the trophy of my lifetime. But what is your take on that ruling?”—Sean G. First off, that is a dream buck. Look at the incredible mass. The 3 drops that I so desire, 2 of them off [...]

27 03, 2014

Best Coyote Mount Ever

2020-06-10T09:23:03-04:00March 27th, 2014|BigDeer, Predator Hunting|2 Comments

I ran across this picture in my archives that a guy sent me about 5 years ago, maybe it's been 10, you know how time flies. I said it then and I say it again--that has got to be one best coyote mounts ever, if not the best. Amazing work! I never did know where that predator came from, or whose mount it is, or most importantly who the taxidermist was. I love for him to see this and let me know so we can give him the shout out he deserves.

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