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3 04, 2015

Iowa: Double-Beam Buck Scored 219″

admin2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 3rd, 2015|Big Deer Stories|Comments Off on Iowa: Double-Beam Buck Scored 219″

Let’s end the week with the story of a 200-inch buck from the Big Deer archives. In November 2011, high-school welding instructor and assistant football coach Paul Hein shot the awesome beast: Got to my ladder stand at 3:25 pm. Hunting 30 yards from an unpicked corn field and 70 to 100 yards from some bedding areas. Wind was from the NW 10-15 mph and temp was about 40 degrees. I started rattling, grunting and bleating and repeated that every 20-30 minutes. About 4:50 I called again. The wind had calmed down by then. I heard movement a bit to my right and noticed a small buck heading in my direction from the NW. He looked very nervous and kept looking over [...]

9 03, 2015

Alabama Hunter’s True Deer Obsession

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00March 9th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|6 Comments

Got this email the other day with “Deer Obsession” in the subject line: Mike: I watch your show religiously, and would like to share this story. I live in Alabama, and this past January, 27, I had a heart attack while at work. Spent 3 days in the hospital and was released to go home on the 29th. I wasn't able to get into the woods for a few days in my ladder stand, but finally I couldn't take it anymore. On a warm, rainy morning I walked down to my pop-up blind and had a seat. At 10:30 this buck came by. Not a monster but I'm proud of him anyway. He will go on the wall. Just wanted [...]

24 02, 2015

Kentucky Big Buck: Troy Gentry’s Ft. Knox Giant, 186 6/8

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 24th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV|3 Comments

My favorite segment on BIG DEER TV is American Deer Hunter. No matter where I’m hunting, my producers and I try to find a local hunter in the area who has shot a magnificent whitetail. During a break in the hunting, we head over to the hunter’s house to film him and hear the story. When the new season of BIG DEER starts this July, you’ll see and hear Troy Gentry talk about the day he killed this 186” 10-point in Bullitt County, Kentucky . FYI, when we show up with the cameras you never know how a hunter will react. As you will see on this show, Troy was a natural, smooth and comfortable on camera as he told his story (paraphrased here): It [...]

12 02, 2015

Illinois: Giant Shotgun Buck, 185 Inches!

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 12th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

Hey Mike: I love checking out your site and reading about big bucks. You featured my brother, Daniel, and I couple of years back when we teamed up on a 176-inch 13-point buck during the Illinois shotgun season. I've got another story for you from the first Illinois gun season 2014 in Adams County. We had been watching this buck for 4 years. The first picture we ever got of him, we guessed him to be a 3.5-year-old 10-pointer. The next year he put on some inches and had long G-2s and G-3s but short G-4s. We had never actually seen this buck in the woods, and we hadn’t gotten any hard-horn pictures of him. In 2013 the buck [...]

15 12, 2014

Maryland Easton Shore: Giant Non-Typical Bow Buck 1581/4!

admin2020-06-10T09:19:53-04:00December 15th, 2014|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|2 Comments

Today’s guest blog from bowhunter Eddie Roberts: Hi Mike: I would like to share a story of the whitetail hunt I went on in Chestertown, MD November 10-15, 2014. I booked the hunt with Kirby Bryan, outfitter for Chesapeake Hunting on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The first 3 days of the hunt were warm, and the deer were moving during the early morning and late evening hours. I saw plenty of deer that were 2 ½ to 3 ½ years old, but I was hunting for a mature buck. On November 14th I was in a stand positioned between a bedding area and a feeding area. I finally had a good NW wind. It was cold and windy, but [...]