Take a guess at this rack’s gross-score once the velvet had been shed (a hunter shot the beautiful 10-pointer that fall and had the rack officially scored). Hint: A rack always looks a little bigger with the velvet on. The two people with the closest guesses will win a $50 gift card from our friends at Duluth Trading Company. Thanks to those guys for sponsoring this contest during Father’s Day week.
You would expect the company that produces some of the cleverest sayings and commercials on TV to come up with some equally witty father's day gift ideas, and Duluth Trading Company does not disappoint. There’s a mixed bag of cool stuff for the hard-working, hard-hunting man, from Duluth’s popular Buck Naked Underwear ("No Sweat, No Stink, No Pinch") to Armachillo Shirts (with made-in-the-jade fabric technology shirt feels cool to the touch and wicks sweat) to BBQ instruments, wallets, socks, tool boxes and bags… Free shipping on $50 orders. To further celebrate Father’s Day week #DadAlwaysSaid, we’ll have a little contest starting tomorrow and give away two $50 gift cards from our friends at Duluth Trading Company, so be sure to check back.
Dan posted this enormous rack on Facebook yesterday and asked: Has the mystery of the Minnesota Monarch been solved? The Minnesota Monarch was a legendary buck that roamed the remote woods of northern Minnesota in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A man picked up his fresh sheds (picture below) in 1990; they had 39 points and net-scored around 334 inches. If somebody had shot this deer in the fall of 1989 it would have been the highest-scoring wild buck ever killed by a hunter. Those antlers still rank #1 in the shed record book. But then the Monarch vanished. There is no evidence that a hunter ever shot him. People speculate that the deer died of old age…or was eaten by wolves…or [...]
Right now, a lot of hunters are getting their 2013 bucks back from the taxidermist. From the pictures of the shoulder mounts I have seen, most of the work has been good, but a few of the bucks have been average at best. Since you’ll pay $500 and up to mount that big 10-pointer you’ll kill this fall (think positive) you’ll want the taxidermy work to be in the good to excellent category. Long-time BIG DEER blogger and great hunter Matt “Flatlander” Cheever says that now is the time to lay the groundwork and find a taxidermy shop. Flat sent us this list of things to look for 4 years ago, and it’s still great, solid advice: Start looking around [...]
Louis from Wisconsin posted this on Facebook: Yesterday this little guy (picture) was lying in the road as mom (doe) watched in the ditch. I got out of the car and gave him a nudge on the butt and he got up and went into the ditch by his mom. Mom just stayed there looking at me as I helped the little fawn out. As we drove off they wondered back in the woods and trotted off together. Here in Virginia Saturday, my friend Ray was driving out his long gravel driveway through the woods. A doe jumped across the road and a tiny fawn “literally fell out of her onto the shoulder of the driveway,” Ray said. The thing was tiny, [...]