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22 08, 2013

Full Moon Best for Trail-Cam Photos?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00August 22nd, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Management, Deer Science|5 Comments

Danny has been keeping us posted on a big 10-pointer roaming his hunting land. The latest: "Got over 500 pictures of deer this week on 2 cameras. The deer were very active. I got several more pics of the big 10. My wife decided to name him Spike. She thinks it’s funny for some reason. Ole’ Spike decided to make some daylight appearances. Hopefully he keeps that up. Sept 6th is our bow opener. Only 3 weeks! On a side note, I’m starting to notice a trend with my pictures. I’m actually getting more evening and morning pics the closer it gets to the full moon. And during the new moon I’m getting mostly night time pictures. This is the [...]

21 08, 2013

More Trail-Cam Bucks!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00August 21st, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Management|2 Comments

Love this chunky buck, look at the mass left side! From Nantucket MA. VA 8-pointer; the antler growth I’m seeing in the Old Dominion is impressive, it’s going to be a good year here. The last 2 bucks are on a farm I’ll be hunting in November. The split brow is cool, but he looks like a young buck.

20 08, 2013

How Far Can a Buck Smell You?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00August 20th, 2013|BigDeer|4 Comments

For more than 50 years Leonard Lee Rue III has observed, researched, photographed and written about deer. He has done as much to educate the American public and hunters on the ways of the whitetail than anyone. Rue observes that a day with high humidity (between 50 and 70 percent), temperature between 50 and 70 and with a light breeze make for ideal scenting conditions for a buck. “Under such conditions I believe a deer could detect a human’s scent from at least one-half mile,” he says. Rue points out that rain and snow knock down your scent molecules, and colder weather later in fall/winter makes it harder for a buck to pick up and sort out your scent. I [...]

16 08, 2013

Trail Cam Bucks!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00August 16th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Management|4 Comments

More and more pictures are rolling in. Send any you get, they get us all fired up for hunting season. I’ll never reveal the location.—M.H. This is a nice Southside VA 10-pointer. Love our VA bucks! Louis got this awesome, incredibly sharp shot of a pair of shooters. Bob sent two. The doe and fawns are a beautiful work of nature. Bob named this buck “Crowbar” and hopes to get a crack at him soon.

15 08, 2013

Confirmed: Gray Wolf Shot in Kentucky

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00August 15th, 2013|BigDeer, Hunting News, Predator Hunting|Comments Off on Confirmed: Gray Wolf Shot in Kentucky

Back in March, James Troyer shot an animal while predator hunting on his family's farm in Hart County. He walked up and saw it was much larger than a coyote. "I was like - wow - that thing was big!" he recalled. "It looked like a wolf, but who is going to believe I shot a wolf?" Because a free-ranging wolf has not been seen in Kentucky for more than 100 years, biologists were skeptical. Troyer convinced Kevin Raymond, a biologist for the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources, to look at the animal. Once Raymond saw the animal was twice the size of a coyote he contacted furbearer biologist Laura Patton, who submitted samples to federal officials for DNA testing. [...]

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Full Moon Best for Trail-Cam Photos?

More Trail-Cam Bucks!

How Far Can a Buck Smell You?

Trail Cam Bucks!

Confirmed: Gray Wolf Shot in Kentucky