Big Deer Blog

Mike: “I encountered a funny scene a few years ago while hunting public land in Iowa. Someone had set up a tree stand a few feet off the fence line adjacent to private property. Evidently, a hunter on that private ground wasn't happy. As you can see, look close, very close to the stand I spied this old deer mount in the tree. It had a plastic machine gun and an orange coat hanging around the neck! And strung around the stand site were air fresheners and shiny reflectors. I would say someone was a little irrigated.” Love the blog, keep up the work.--John

Shane Sanderson first saw the giant last July in a hayfield on his Fremont Co. cattle ranch. He was in a bachelor group with 2 other bucks, a good 8-pointer and another nice 10, but this buck with 10 tall points and long brows was seemingly from another world. “You just don’t see whitetails that size in Wyoming,” Shane told Realtree.com. Shane watched and patterned the bucks for a month, and set a ground blind in the corner of the field where the bucks were popping out most evenings. On September 1, the bow opener, the monster 10 showed up like clockwork with some other deer, and Shane killed him at 35 yards. Shane reports that over the years he has [...]