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29 03, 2013

Wisconsin: Todd “Don’t Miss” Vis Buck, 190 1/8!

2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 29th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting|3 Comments

Last October we posted the exclusive story of this double-beamed bow giant out of Wisconsin. Many thanks to Bryan Rush for turning us on to this buck, which was shot by his buddy Todd “Don’t Miss” Vis. Bryan sent more pictures of Todd and his awesome archery buck, which took second place at the Wisconsin Deer Classic. The rack was measured by a B&C-certified taxidermist and tallied 190 1/8 gross. Bryan and Todd had rough-measured the rack at the time of kill, and they came up with 188. Good job guys.   If you read the original post, you’ll see that Todd made a great hunting move when he first saw this giant. I write about that smart move in [...]

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27 03, 2013

The X-Ray Buck (aka Arrowhead Buck)

2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 27th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Science|1 Comment

This is the week of bucks with holes in their heads. A few years ago in Maryland Jonathan Leith dropped this 8-pointer. The 2 1/2-year-old buck wasn't big enough for a shoulder mount, so he decided to saw the skull into a European mount. Look what he found! Sunk just below the right eye socket and into the honey-combed nasal sinus area was a piece of an XX75 aluminum arrow with a 3-blade broadhead. I figure that arrow was fired into buck sometime the year before because Jon told a newspaper guy: “There was no physical evidence that the deer had an arrow in it. The skin wasn’t broken, there was no pus pocket. The eye appeared to be normal.” [...]

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26 03, 2013

Hole-in-the-Skull Buck

2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 26th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|Comments Off on Hole-in-the-Skull Buck

  From Matthew in Kansas, who sends us lots of cool stuff (thanks man!): Three years ago I found the left shed of a buck I called “10-10.” The shed had a pretty good chunk of skull plate attached to the back edge. Fast forward to last season. I shot the buck with a rifle and took him to (a guy) to cape him for me. As he was caping, his knife poked into the skull behind the left beam. Once we cut the skull cap off the head, there was a mass of soft connective tissue and puss in the brain cavity . There was some puss on the outside of the skull too. Once the mass was removed, [...]

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25 03, 2013

Alberta HandleBars Muley Buck

2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 25th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|1,209 Comments

From boone-crockett.org: Justin Eckert… watched this mule deer buck during summer scouting sprout his new antler set, until the buck contracted an unknown disease (or was injured) that almost finished him. Somehow this buck made a full recovery to a healthy body weight, but not before the ordeal took its toll (on the rack). Yeah, he ended up growing one of the coolest racks I’ve seen from 2012. Handle Bars! And see how he didn’t lose the velvet on right side? Man, gonna be a killer mount.

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