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24 06, 2013

Buck Science: How Much More Will Velvet Antlers Grow?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 24th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Science|Comments Off on Buck Science: How Much More Will Velvet Antlers Grow?

The bucks’ racks are growing fast; how much bigger will they get? In this blog, top whitetail scientist Dr. Grant Woods says: Bucks will have most of their beam length developed by this week. Most of their points will be showing by mid-June. Some bucks will have all points showing and some will add a few points…tine length is likely to be less than half developed at this time. Those are general rules, but Grant points out that the growth of individual racks can vary widely: Some bucks will show a lot of antler growth early, while others seem to add a bunch to their rack during July. About the picture: Luke Strommen photographed this Milk River buck one summer [...]

20 06, 2013

“Big Deer TV” Season 2 on Sportsman Channel

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 20th, 2013|Big Deer TV, BigDeer|95 Comments

The new season kicks off Wednesday, July 3 at 8 PM EST and runs through hunting season and the end of the year. Special thanks to Intermedia Outdoors, especially the amazing cameramen and editors, for their hard work. Big shout out to our sponsors, top brands in the industry: Cabela’s, Remington, Trijicon, Wildlife Research Center, Yeti Coolers and Zippo. To find Sportsman Channel in your area, click here. Hope you enjoy these highlights, tell me what you think.

19 06, 2013

“Titanic” 8-Point Buck Scored 154!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 19th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Management, Deer Science, Shed Hunting|108 Comments

Today’s post from blogger Jon, who hunts up in Minnesota/Wisconsin: Mike: I have any update from a post last year. I sent you the velvet picture of Titanic last August, and we had a lot of people guess at the score. Well, in early November 2012 I had a great encounter with this buck. I was sitting a cut corn field with a buck decoy out when the bruiser came in chasing does at last light. I didn’t know it was Titanic, but I knew it was one of the 3 big shooters we had on camera. He locked up at 35 yards, but was facing directly at me, staring at the decoy. I waited at full draw for what [...]

18 06, 2013

Buck Science: How Many Big Deer Do You See?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 18th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Deer Science|7 Comments

I’ve got a segment on my TV show called “Buck Science” where I talk about some aspect of the deer behavior in the area I’m hunting each week. Let’s make it a weekly segment here on the blog as well, since the more we know and learn about mature bucks, the better we hunt. I dug this first one out of my research files. Tennessee deer researcher Bryan Kinkel says: Reviewing the many trail-camera/observation data sets I have gotten from serious deer hunters and land managers, I have come to the conclusion that it's common for hunters to see 90% of the yearling bucks that regularly use their property. That sighting percentage declines to about 70% for 2 1/2-year-old bucks [...]

17 06, 2013

PETA Drones to Watch Hunters?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 17th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Hunting|112 Comments

PETA claims it will soon have “some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun down deer… The group is shopping for one or more drone aircraft with which to monitor those who are out in the woods with death on their minds.” This might make you mad if it were not so laughable. What a ridiculously impractical idea! How could they possibly fly their “one or more” little drones around and monitor 12 million deer hunters as we hit the woods from coast to coast to shoot a buck this fall? One of the “drones” PETA claims it is looking at is actually a small, remote-controlled copter that costs around $13,000, plus video camera. Plus, you need [...]

Big Deer Blog

Buck Science: How Much More Will Velvet Antlers Grow?

“Big Deer TV” Season 2 on Sportsman Channel

“Titanic” 8-Point Buck Scored 154!

Buck Science: How Many Big Deer Do You See?

PETA Drones to Watch Hunters?