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12 06, 2015

Iowa Big Bucks Featured on BIG DEER TV

admin2020-06-10T09:19:37-04:00June 12th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting|Comments Off on Iowa Big Bucks Featured on BIG DEER TV

Last weekend I had the pleasure of traveling across eastern Iowa with our TV crew, and meeting and filming local 3 hunters who shot giant bucks that, combined, have more than 725 inches of non-typical antler. First stop Muscatine County, where Paul Hein has taught welding at the high school for 34 years. Paul, who loves his job and the kids, also loves to bowhunt in the afternoons when school lets out. One November day in 2011, he hurried to his tree stand and shot a freakish buck with double main beams that scored 219 (above). Next it was on to Jackson County, where we met the Simmons boys. In this job I enjoy nothing more than to meet families with [...]

2 06, 2015

Deer Science: Bucks With 3 Beams

admin2020-06-10T09:19:37-04:00June 2nd, 2015|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Science|3 Comments

Check out the 3rd beam on the left side of this rack, what caused it? A 3rd beam on a whitetail deer’s rack is the result of either non-typical genetics or an injury. If this buck were 5 years of age or older, I’d say the cause was genetics. But he’s younger than that, so the extra beam is likely the result of an injury. QDMA biologist Kip Adams agrees: “That buck injured his antler very early in the growing process that year. If the buck would have survived the season he would not have had a third beam again the following year.” I’ve never shot a buck with 3 beams, have you? Send me a picture.

1 06, 2015

Minnesota Kid’s 185″ Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:19:37-04:00June 1st, 2015|Big Deer Stories|6 Comments

One day last November, Malcolm Bradbury and his dad, Brad, were sitting in a blind on their 115-acre farm when they spotted the spotted the biggest buck either one of them had ever seen. Malcom had passed up several deer earlier in the day, and for the next 7 uneventful hours he and has dad had sat and chatted and ate sandwiches and jerky, and enjoyed each other’s company. Around 4 p.m., the 185-gross buck stepped out, and Malcom dropped him in his tracks with one bullet. 3 takeaways from this hunt: --“One of the keys to shooting big deer is to simply be patient,” Boyd said. “Malcolm has a lot of patience.” Especially for his age, I add. Patience and [...]

26 05, 2015

World-Record Whitetail: What It Will Take to Top The Hanson Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:19:37-04:00May 26th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|9 Comments

It will obviously take one rare and incredible animal to best the 213 5⁄8-inch monster that Milo Hanson shot near Biggar, Sask. 22 years ago. My analysis of the top 200-inch typical racks in the Boone and Crockett book show that the new record typical will have to possess 12 points or more, with the G-2, G-3 and G-4 tines on each antler in excess of 10 inches; an inside spread of 22 inches and likely more; and bases of 6 inches or more, with good mass throughout the 27-inch-plus main beams. The rack will have to be clean and amazingly symmetrical, with few abnormal points and less than 8 inches of deductions. The animal will probably be 5 to 7 [...]

10 04, 2015

Big-Buck Friday: Indiana Keihn Buck Scored 234”

admin2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 10th, 2015|Big Deer Stories|2 Comments

NEW FEATURE: To keep us dreaming big at what this fall might hold, I’ll post a huge buck from the BIG DEER archives every Friday for the next few months: Just before 8:00 a.m. on November 22, 2005, Jack Keihn looked up and saw a monster coming. The buck dropped off a food plot on top of a ridge, traveled down a logging road and dipped into a ravine, his nose to the ground in search of a hot doe. The rut was winding down, and the old boy was looking for one last fling. The buck ambled close to Jack’s big, wooden “hut stand,” and he fired his 20-gauge shotgun. The slug hit high and the deer bounded off. Jack got [...]