On the Bowhunting.com Facebook page they asked: Real or Fake? Last I checked there were 700 comments, most said fake. But there are a few believers. One person said: (Could be) achondroplasia, defective conversion of cartilage into bone, especially at the epiphyses of long bones, producing a type of dwarfism… Another one said: Real, I have seen one like that before… Have a good weekend :)
Mike: Your show gets better with each passing year. I like the way you keep putting hunting in the proper perspective. I am sending a picture of my 2013 Indiana buck taken during bow season. What I like most about the deer is who I got to share it with. My daughter Jenna is with me on most of my hunting trips. She has a crossbow this year and will be chasing deer herself not just watching Dad. Thanks for having the same values as we do and broadcasting them in a positive light.--Chad Gray Chad, thanks for the kind words. You are obviously a great dad, and you're hunting the right way. Doesn't get any better than that. And good luck with [...]
Corey W. shared this huge shed on Facebook. From the looks of the green mold and the chewed beam tip, the white-grade antler had been lying out there for a couple years. What a great secret souvenir! Corey said: A true Canadian Monarch!!! 5 point side, typical, nearly 90 inches!!! This is type of deer that roam the wilds of Saskatchewan! Yes. Although the antler quality has been down the last couple of years in the region of northern Saskatchewan where I hunt, the possibility of running across a buck that grows and sheds an antler like this is why I keep going back up there every November. BTW, this is a typical antler for Saskatchewan, super heavy mass throughout [...]
I was looking back through the BIG DEER archives, and ran across this most unusual shed hunt we have ever posted. Man, you never know what you’re going to find in the woods: About 20 years ago, some Missouri guys had been shed hunting all day to no avail when they decided to check a 2-acre thicket around an old homestead. Walking around the crumbled stone foundation, one fellow found an old well. He kneeled, looked down and saw the remains of this buck down in it. The hunters first thought that maybe someone had poached the deer the previous season and stuffed it in there. But when they pulled the deer out, there were no bullet holes in the body [...]
On my TV show you see us regularly spray down with Scent Killer (full disclosure, one of our great sponsors). I mist my boots, clothes, pack, etc. every day while I’m hunting and filming. It’s become second nature. One night last fall a guy watched an episode and wrote me: “Mike, stop using that spray. It makes you look foolish. That stuff does not work.” Ah, the non-believers. Anyway, that guy is wrong. Here’s the latest confirmation that scent-eliminating products do work. In a lab at Mississippi State University (MSU), Shamitha Dissanayake, a graduate student, and Todd Mlsna, Ph.D., head of the lab, are working on ways to best collect and analyze volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from body odor. Their goal [...]