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14 06, 2013

Georgia’s Biggest Deer: Padgett Buck 245 4/8!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 14th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|108 Comments

Here’s another one from the Big Deer archives: I was filming a hunt in November 2008 down in Georgia. One day at lunchtime the guy who had killed the highest-scoring buck ever in the Peach State agreed to meet me on the side of a red dirt road and tell me how he did it. Billy Joe Padgett roared up in his pickup, the monster mount riding shotgun. “Let’s make this quick,” Billy Joe said, “I gotta get back on my deer stand.” Telfair County, November 1998, the day before Thanksgiving. Billy Joe’s dad was hunting his favorite stand on a lease and heard some grunting, but he couldn’t see the buck for a shot. The elder Padgett decided to [...]

13 06, 2013

Creep Photo: Pile of Snakes!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:35-04:00June 13th, 2013|BigDeer|5 Comments

Two people saw this on Facebook the other day and shared: Mike, know how you love snakes, ha ha… One of the creepiest, freakiest pictures I have ever seen. Is that a den or what? What kind of evil serpents are those? If I stumbled across this in the woods that would be the end of me, no doubt.

12 06, 2013

Atlatl Deer Kill

admin2020-06-10T09:23:35-04:00June 12th, 2013|BigDeer|119 Comments

Saw this on Facebook the other day; interesting and one heck of an accomplishment: This is the deer my husband harvested last year with his atlatl and 7-ft darts! He threw out of that window in our 101 year-old barn… 13-yard hurl and it was a heart shot! According to Wikipedia, the atlatl, or spear-thrower, is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing… The spear-thrower is believed to have been in use by Homo sapiens since the Upper Paleolithic (around 30,000 years ago). It was used by early Native Americans as well. It seems to have been introduced to America during the immigration across the Bering Land Bridge, and despite the later introduction of the bow [...]

11 06, 2013

Illinois Giant Bow Buck: 211 4/8!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:35-04:00June 11th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting|450 Comments

It will be a few months till deer season and the new big-buck stories start rolling in. Until then, enjoy these giants from the Big Deer archives.--MH Mike: October 27, 2007 my dad, a friend and I hunted until 8:15 am. We all had plans for the day so we ended early. I decided to walk around the perimeter of my 47 acres just to see if anything was around. I have an old Christmas tree farm in Illinois, about 45 minutes from St. Louis. I had walked about 300 yards when I saw this massive rack lying under a pine tree. I kept walking 3 feet past the buck and, nocked an arrow, slowly walked 3 steps backwards and drew. As [...]

10 06, 2013

100-Year-Old “Trail Camera” Picture!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:35-04:00June 10th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management|424 Comments

Jay Graber saw our recent post and picture of “Does Flying Around” and sent this. Fascinating! Mike: That picture is from the book Hunting Wildlife with Camera and Flashlight by George Shiras, a pioneer in nighttime wildlife photography. Peter White, his son-in-law, had a summer home on Whitefish Lake in the UP where some of the photos were taken. Early 1900s. My great-grandparents were the caretakers of that camp. My grandmother's (Ingrid Rundquist) cat was caught in a few of the pictures too and are in the book. Pretty cool, huh? Funny, after all of these years that I've had these books (volumes I and II) with the rich family history, I never tied the century gap together with today's [...]

Big Deer Blog

Georgia’s Biggest Deer: Padgett Buck 245 4/8!

Creep Photo: Pile of Snakes!

Atlatl Deer Kill

Illinois Giant Bow Buck: 211 4/8!

100-Year-Old “Trail Camera” Picture!