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11 04, 2013

36 Bucks Dead from EHD

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 11th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Science, Shed Hunting|114 Comments

From my friend Mark Drury: Bitter sweet shed hunt (the other) weekend…we found some awesome Dream Sheds but EHD took some 36 bucks off of the (property). Here are just a few of them. 2012 will go down as one of the worst years for hemorrhagic disease (mostly strains of a virus known as epizootic hemorrhagic disease or EHD, but which also includes the closely related blue tongue virus). Have you found any dead bucks while you’re out knocking around the woods, looking for sheds or turkeys?

10 04, 2013

New York: Biggest Buck of 2012!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 10th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|97 Comments

Like many of us Dick Sheflin grew up in the “if it’s brown it’s down” days, and that is not a bad thing. A new hunter needs to kill some bucks, regardless of rack size, early and get his hands dirty so he or she will experience the thrill of the hunt, be hungry for more and hooked for life. In this article Dick said, “Over the last 10 years, my sons have been pushing me to let younger bucks go if I wanted a big one…I finally started listening to them.” And that is part of a hunter’s maturation, too, because the longer you hunt and the more deer you shoot over the years, the more patience you [...]

9 04, 2013

Will Hunters Boycott Colorado?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 9th, 2013|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Hunting News|2 Comments

I was the first to see this coming. From USA Today: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Hunters across the country say they are boycotting Colorado because of recent legislation meant to curtail gun violence. I appeared on the NRA News Cam and Co. TV show on Sportsman Channel 3 weeks ago, and the topic of Colorado came up. The Governor had just signed 4 gun-control bills that severely impact our 2A rights. I’m paraphrasing here because I do not have a transcript of the show, but I told Cam and the audience: “Hunters are a powerful economic force in this country, pumping more than $22 billion into the economy each year and supporting a million jobs…hunters are a sleeping [...]

8 04, 2013

Virginia: Sussex County Palmated Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 8th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|3 Comments

I saw this amazing buck on the Virginia Whitetails Facebook page. It was shot near Grizzard (love that name) in Sussex Co., down in the Tidewater of southeastern VA, a few hours from where I live. I have posted a few palmated bucks over the years, but this giant takes the cake, just awesome--plus, the fact that it’s a homegrown Old Dominion buck makes it all the sweeter. Almost unbelievably, a week later on that same Facebook page this picture popped up: Slade Jones had found a couple of sheds, including one that surely came off the palmated giant a couple of years ago. Either that or there are multiple palmated bucks running around the swamps of Sussex Co.! I [...]

5 04, 2013

Double-Deer Mount: Do You Like It?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 5th, 2013|BigDeer|4 Comments

First I’ve seen of a mount like this. Do you dig it? I’m not sure I do, though that’s a good-looking buck (old and thick, and a nice taxidermy job). I suppose that if the person shot one of the deer and then stayed on stand and shot the other one the same day (legal in many states if you’ve got the proper tags) that would be a way to preserve the memory. Or maybe the buck came by dogging the doe, and the hunter dropped them both with a couple of shots on a once in a lifetime hunt? Anyway, do you like the double mount, would you do it?

Big Deer Blog

36 Bucks Dead from EHD

New York: Biggest Buck of 2012!

Will Hunters Boycott Colorado?

Virginia: Sussex County Palmated Buck!

Double-Deer Mount: Do You Like It?