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1 07, 2013

Missouri Drop-Tine Monster Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00July 1st, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting|2 Comments

Mike: I read your blog and see your obsession with drop tine bucks. Just wanted to drop a line and show you the buck I killed last year on my place in central Missouri. This is the first and only drop tine I have ever seen. And to think my buddy missed him 2 years ago at 22 yards with a bow. This buck had 20+ points and NO drops when he missed it. The next year it dropped 2 drop tines, including a 12.5" split-drop with velvet still hanging on it. Amazing deer and fun to hunt. We had probably 10,000 pictures of this deer in 4 years and only saw him twice alive. He changed a lot, and [...]

28 06, 2013

Kentucky Giant Buck, 226 Inches!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 28th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|2 Comments

Dustin Finley tells me his dad, Larry, killed this deer in Pendleton Co, KY on 11-11-12; they measured him at 226 7/8. That is one of the best-looking racks I’ve seen from last season, beautiful color and all those stickers! We’re trying to get the full story.

27 06, 2013

Deer Shed: Longest Tines Ever?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 27th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Science, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

Thanks to extreme antler collector Mike Charowhas for sharing: Mike, how often do you see an official 18-inch G2 and a 15 5/8-inch G3? Dave Boland scored it. Found north of Kansas City, MO right on the KS/MO border. Four points and scores 87 5/8. Just to give an idea how long that G2 is, consider that the non-typical point sticking off the G2 is 4 inches long! Thanks, Mike Two observations: that has to be one of the longest G2 tines ever officially measured on a whitetail; if the other side of that rack scores similarly, and give the buck a 16-inch spread, you’re looking at a 190-inch 8-point! Wow!

26 06, 2013

Year of the Drop-Tine Buck?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 26th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|5 Comments

Steve sent this picture with the message: Mike, I know how you like drop tines… A friend of Steve’s killed the farmland deer in Michigan, northern Macomb County, about 20 years ago. Could it be an omen that the dream buck shows up here on Big Deer after all these years? The obsession to shoot a drop took me years ago, decades ago, though I am not sure when or even why. It is not because I went out one day and saw a dropper skulking through the woods and thought: That is the most awesome thing I have ever seen; I won’t be complete until I shoot one. No, after many years of serious whitetail hunting in 30 states [...]

25 06, 2013

Best & Worst States for Gun Owners

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 25th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Hunting News|1 Comment

Guns & Ammo has built a list of the best (and worst) places to be a gun shooter/hunter. They based their criteria on state firearms laws, concealed carry, etc. As you might expect New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California ranked dead last. Best gun states were Arizona, Alaska, Utah, Kentucky and Vermont (a mild surprise to me). My native Virginia ranked a disappointing 24, though I do not feel my rights as a gun owner have been squeezed in recent years, even though our state is becoming more liberal. Click here to read the list and see where your state ranks.

Big Deer Blog

Missouri Drop-Tine Monster Buck!

Kentucky Giant Buck, 226 Inches!

Deer Shed: Longest Tines Ever?

Year of the Drop-Tine Buck?

Best & Worst States for Gun Owners