21 01, 2025

Giant Indiana Jestes Buck, 209 7/8 Inches NT

2025-01-21T15:35:54-05:00January 21st, 2025|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Hunting News, Shed Hunting, whitetail deer|1 Comment

Great guest blog on one of the coolest deer from the 2024 season from Big Deer field reporter Dean Weimer. On the evening of October 4, 2023, Danny Jestes watched a couple of does and a small buck feed in an open grass field for the better part of an hour. Then, as if shot out of a cannon, all three deer skedaddled into a nearby thicket. At the edge of the woods stood what Jestes assumed was the reason for their abrupt exit. “When I turned and looked over at the edge of the woods, there stood a magnificent buck with all kinds of headgear,” he says. “The buck was looking straight toward me.” After a few minutes the [...]

9 01, 2025

The Rescue: Bowhunter Saves Puppy

2025-01-09T10:24:35-05:00January 9th, 2025|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Hunting News, Shed Hunting|0 Comments

Thomas Barr, who goes by T-Barr, drove 14 hours from his home in Pennsylvania to bowhunt southern Illinois. It was early November, the rut was ready to rock and a cold front was on the way.  The next afternoon he one of those classic Midwest funnels you read about. It was a narrow strip of timber and brush bordered on either side by a cornfield and a clover plot. A deep creek with steep, nearly vertical banks cut the middle of the cover. His stand was in a tree that swept up and out over the water. An old, crumbling barbed-wire fence ran hard along the creek and beneath the tree stand. “I climbed up and was pumped,” says T-Bar. [...]

1 11, 2024

BREAKING: Scott John’s Giant Kansas Bow Buck, 229 7/8”

2024-11-01T10:01:03-04:00November 1st, 2024|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on BREAKING: Scott John’s Giant Kansas Bow Buck, 229 7/8”

Big Deer blogger Dean Weimer reports on this Kansas giant shot last month: High school teacher and multi-sport coach Scott John is a dedicated family man and avid outdoorsman. He is a consummate hunter who absolutely loves bowhunting whitetails in his home area of eastern Kansas. Scott had been after a dandy non-typical buck for the last two seasons. But as they so often do, the giant had eluded Scott’s best efforts. In fact, he’d only ever laid eyes on the buck once while in a stand. That was in early November 2023. On Tuesday October 22, 2024, the temperature was a balmy 92 degrees–less than ideal hunting conditions to say the least. Scott, like practically every other sane bowhunter [...]

15 04, 2024

Big Deer Archives: 4-Year Ouest for a Nebraska Archery Giant

2024-04-15T09:26:01-04:00April 15th, 2024|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Big Deer Archives: 4-Year Ouest for a Nebraska Archery Giant

Writing script for a new Nebraska television show about my hunt out on the North Platte River last fall. You don’t hear that much about Nebraska, but it’s a sleeper state for big whitetails. Got me to thinking of a great story a passionate bowhunter named Nick sent me 8 years ago: Mike: My journey for a Nebraska public-land buck started back in 2012 when I was notified, I was getting stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, which is located about 15 miles south of Omaha. I am a 15-year active-duty Air Force Security Forces (military police) member. I arrived to Offutt in the beginning of July. Right away I began to research the local public hunting spots. I stumbled [...]

10 12, 2023

94-Year-Old Minn. Woman Shoots Buck

2023-11-26T16:38:54-05:00December 10th, 2023|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on 94-Year-Old Minn. Woman Shoots Buck

From the Bemidji Pioneer:  Ninety-four-year-old Rosemary Pulczinski of Bemidji traded her walker in for a rifle this deer hunting season. Hunting with her Grandson one day, a spike stepped out 100 yards away, and Rosemary dropped it with a perfect shot. "Wow, I got my deer,” she said. “I shot once and I was ready to shoot again, but it stayed down. It was so great.” Pulczinski’s late husband, Cy, was the one who taught her how to hunt over 20 years ago. She said at first, she would only go out to the stand with him to keep him company when all of their children grew up and moved away but ended up finding passion in the sport, too. [...]

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