Big Deer Blog

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) [...]

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.  

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,” [...]