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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 [...]

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 [...]

2 04, 2013

Missouri: Picked-Up Rack Scores 270-Plus!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 2nd, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

From the Missouri Dept. of Conservation: On the evening of Wednesday, March 13, an antler shed hunter discovered a large, near-record set of non-typical antlers while searching the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in St. Charles. Preliminary reports say the rack has 37 points and scores in the 270s. The buck was likely 5 ½ to 6 1/2. It will be one of the top 5 NT bucks ever grown in Missouri. Nobody knows for sure what killed the buck last summer/fall, but it’s safe to assume he was another victim of the big EHD outbreak of 2012. BTW, the shed hunter gets to keep the rack that he found on state land, but a paper he was issued [...]

29 03, 2013

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

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 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 [...]

27 03, 2013

The X-Ray Buck (aka Arrowhead Buck)

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 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.” [...]