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11 07, 2013

Tom Taylor’s Wisconsin Bow Giant (226 4/8 Net)

admin2020-06-10T09:23:33-04:00July 11th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Management|3 Comments

\ Next week we will be traveling across Wisconsin and filming hunters who have shot giant bucks, telling their stories and featuring their bucks for a special episode of BIG DEER TV to air later this fall. Here’s one of those bucks that appeared on the blog in 2010: Tom Taylor has more than one reason to remember September 26, 2009. That was the day he was married—and the day a giant buck stepped in front of his trail camera. After Tom returned home from his Mexican honeymoon he retrieved the camera and couldn’t believe the image he saw. He named the gnarly-racked deer “Wedding Crasher.” The 09 season came and went, and Tom never saw the buck. The next [...]

9 07, 2013

Trail Cam: First Big Buck 2013

admin2020-06-10T09:23:33-04:00July 9th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management|3 Comments

Danny’s had his cams out for 2 weeks and says: “Got a couple decent bucks. Hopefully the big 10 hangs around for a few more months.” (I hope so too, that’s a good deer, great brows, with quite a bit more growing to do. Will be fun to track this buck and see if Danny gets him.) “The biggest surprise was the bear. We had heard rumors there was one running around, but didn’t really believe it. We believe it now!”

1 07, 2013

Missouri Drop-Tine Monster Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00July 1st, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting|2 Comments

Mike: I read your blog and see your obsession with drop tine bucks. Just wanted to drop a line and show you the buck I killed last year on my place in central Missouri. This is the first and only drop tine I have ever seen. And to think my buddy missed him 2 years ago at 22 yards with a bow. This buck had 20+ points and NO drops when he missed it. The next year it dropped 2 drop tines, including a 12.5" split-drop with velvet still hanging on it. Amazing deer and fun to hunt. We had probably 10,000 pictures of this deer in 4 years and only saw him twice alive. He changed a lot, and [...]

28 06, 2013

Kentucky Giant Buck, 226 Inches!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 28th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|2 Comments

Dustin Finley tells me his dad, Larry, killed this deer in Pendleton Co, KY on 11-11-12; they measured him at 226 7/8. That is one of the best-looking racks I’ve seen from last season, beautiful color and all those stickers! We’re trying to get the full story.

26 06, 2013

Year of the Drop-Tine Buck?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 26th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|5 Comments

Steve sent this picture with the message: Mike, I know how you like drop tines… A friend of Steve’s killed the farmland deer in Michigan, northern Macomb County, about 20 years ago. Could it be an omen that the dream buck shows up here on Big Deer after all these years? The obsession to shoot a drop took me years ago, decades ago, though I am not sure when or even why. It is not because I went out one day and saw a dropper skulking through the woods and thought: That is the most awesome thing I have ever seen; I won’t be complete until I shoot one. No, after many years of serious whitetail hunting in 30 states [...]