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12 09, 2013

Colorado: Do-It-Yourself Elk Hunt

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 12th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|4 Comments

Longtime blogger Matt “Flatlander” Cheever writes in about his recent elk hunt: Hey Mike, just got back from Colorado on a DIY public-land elk hunt and what an awesome experience it was. I enjoy nothing more than a good whitetail hunt, but I have to say elk hunting is pretty amazing. We hunted in groups of two and three, chasing bugles and traversing the mountains. The altitude definitely is a gut check to how hard you are willing to push it to succeed, but the feeling of success afterward is like nothing else. I was blessed to take a nice mature 5x5 and had a few buddies to help pack it out. Most avid elk hunters said, “You’ll never be [...]

9 09, 2013

Maryland: Bowhunter Shoots “Spike” on Opening Day!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 9th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Deer Science|9 Comments

Danny shot the beautiful buck his wife had named “Spike” last Friday. His story: I had my trail cameras set at three different locations since the middle of June. I studied all the pictures (around 200 of them) I got of Spike. I printed out the moon phases and the wind directions for the past couple months, compared them and tried to come up with a game plan. Maryland bow opener was Sept 6--the morning after the new moon. The wind direction was supposed to be out of the NNE. I looked back through all the cam pictures, and it just so happened the last time we had a NNE wind was the morning after the new moon in August. Spike was [...]

4 09, 2013

Giant 10-Point Buck Update

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 4th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management|8 Comments

Danny sent this last update before he starts hunting this huge 10-pointer that his wife named Spike on Friday: “I got an absolute ton of pictures of Spike last week. The majority of the pictures were nighttime, but for some reason he came into the field at 3:16 in the afternoon one day." I really like the image of him in the morning with a few other bucks. Unfortunately this spot is impossible to hunt in the morning with a bow. I have pictures of deer in this field’s corner from 11:30 p.m. thru 7:00 am every single day last week. There’s no way to get into the stand without blowing everything out of the fields. Our bow opener is [...]

3 09, 2013

Kansas Pick Up: 17-Point Rack w/10” Spread!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 3rd, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Shed Hunting|4 Comments

Hey Mike, Some guys were bird hunting in southeastern Kansas in 2011, came upon a mud pit and saw just a little piece of the left beam sticking up in the mud. After a closer look they realized it was a whole deer buried in the pit! They dug out the skull and it was in awesome shape; I guess the mud had protected the rack from the weather and animals. We rough-scored it at 164 gross with only a 10 " inside spread… it has 6 points on the right beam, 9 on the left and also the spike in the middle with a fork on it! A friend and I are going to mount it soon. —Teddy Hensley [...]

29 08, 2013

South Carolina: Huge Velvet Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00August 29th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|5 Comments

On August 20, 12-year-old Tanner Herndon killed this 240-pound, 140-class giant in Dorchester County. Read the full story here. Taxidermist Dan Pernell of Summerville is doing the mounting, and he believes this buck will easily be one of the best killed in South Carolina this year, in terms of body weight and antler. Having just hunted a few miles from where Tanner shot his giant with a .243, I have some thoughts: Tanner shot his buck in a field of low, green peanuts. You hunt some unusual food sources in the Lowcountry. One evening Krista and I hunted in a cotton field adjacent to a peanut field. “I didn’t know deer would eat cotton,” I said into the camera. “Weird.” [...]