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27 02, 2014

Biggest “Cactus Buck” Ever?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:04-04:00February 27th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Science|6 Comments

I saw this photo on the Bowhunting.com Facebook and wondered: Is that sucker the biggest cactus buck ever? Although cactus bucks are rare, I’ve seen a good number of them over the years. But nothing approaching the gnarly mass that this one has. I have no idea where this freak was shot. Many people will think this buck had his balls injured or torn off (ouch!), but this explanation from Matt Knox (15th paragraph down), deer project coordinator for Virginia, fits to a tee: A unique male antler anomaly is a “cactus” buck. These bucks suffer from very low testosterone production due to hypogonadism or cryptochidism (i.e., their testicles are the size of a green pea or never descend from [...]

26 02, 2014

Washington Nationals’ LaRoche Kills Cougar with Bow and Arrow

admin2020-06-10T09:23:04-04:00February 26th, 2014|BigDeer, Bowhunting|2 Comments

I love baseball, I love spring training time and, being from Virginia, the Nationals are my second favorite team, and so I loved this picture and post that I saw on Brietbart. Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche said he got into bowhunting about 15 years ago and now he is obsessed with it. So much so that he recently carried his bow into the Colorado high country on a cougar hunt. "…you don’t want to screw that up, because that could go bad really quick, as you could imagine," LaRoche said. When you come up over the hill, and you’re eye-to-eye with that mountain lion…man, it gets your blood flowing….” As you might expect, animal rights whackos hassled LaRoche about [...]

25 02, 2014

Buck Sheds and Big Bass!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:04-04:00February 25th, 2014|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|4 Comments

BIG DEER friends and fans Zach and Ellie filed this field report: Hey Mike, the sheds are dropping in Southern Illinois around DuQuoin and the fish are biting! Awesome outdoor couple. Great bass Ellie! After this brutal winter, everybody needs to get outside and have some fun like this. The woods are fine this time of year.

24 02, 2014

Big-Buck Tip: Tweak Your Deer Stands

admin2020-06-10T09:23:04-04:00February 24th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Deer Science|2 Comments

Another finding reported at the Southeast Deer Study Group 2014: Researchers say adult bucks traveled 55 yards farther away from hunting stands on average at the end of the season vs. the beginning of the season. This further confirms something I have been blogging about and saying on TV for years: Mature bucks can learn your habits and pattern you. As the season progresses they see, smell and hear where you walk into the woods…where you climb into trees…where you walk out at midmorning or after dark… Then they skirt those stand locations to avoid you. I did a “Top 10 Tactics” episode of BIG DEER TV on Sportsman last year, and this strategy was #6: Change It Up. Say [...]

21 02, 2014

Is This the Craziest Deer Rack You Ever Saw?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:04-04:00February 21st, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Science|2 Comments

Saw this on Whitetail Overload’s Facebook page. One of the craziest photos I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of crazy deer photos in my day. This was obviously caused by some sort of injury to the deer and the rack (hit by car I would suspect) but how that beam (black because the velvet dried hard on it) grew down and through the deer’s mouth defies explanation. There is always something new and unusual to see in the whitetail world.

Big Deer Blog

Biggest “Cactus Buck” Ever?

Washington Nationals’ LaRoche Kills Cougar with Bow and Arrow

Buck Sheds and Big Bass!

Big-Buck Tip: Tweak Your Deer Stands

Is This the Craziest Deer Rack You Ever Saw?