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20 11, 2014

Big Deer TV: Update From The Road

admin2020-06-10T09:19:53-04:00November 20th, 2014|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|5 Comments

Been on the road chasing the rut for 2 weeks now, finally got some Wi-Fi to check in. Ten days ago up in Saskatchewan I shot one of the biggest 8-pointers I've killed in a while, the rack scored 140. It was cold, near zero, but no snow. The buck ghosted down a ridge at 3 pm, further confirmation that big bucks move at midday especially during a full moon. Shot him with my Remington Model 783 in .270 with a 150-grain Core-Lokt SP bullet. From there headed down to Sheridan, Wyoming, where I hunted in the shadows of the Bighorn Mountains. It snowed and was severely cold...temps -10, snow, and one day the legendary Wyoming winds gusted to -40 and -50. But [...]

10 10, 2014

BIG DEER TV Hunts California

admin2020-06-10T09:19:54-04:00October 10th, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer|3 Comments

As you read this I will have traveled up into Oregon and be in the midst of a 10-day quest for mule deer after a fine week of hunting in the Central Coast of Cali, near the town of Paso Robles, or “Pass of the Oaks.” The highlight of the trip was obviously shooting the 130-class 3x4 buck; B&C minimum for a Columbian blacktail is 135, so this is a great and above average deer, about as big as they for these parts. Twenty inches wide, even had one small eyeguard. Note the compact camera rig we used—Nikon DSLR, 80-200 mm lens here I believe, w/shotgun microphone. Cameras for filming the outdoors have come a long way. I remember not too [...]

29 08, 2014

2014 Hunt Season is Here!

admin2020-06-10T09:22:47-04:00August 29th, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer|4 Comments

Here's another look at "Mini-Beast" that a hunter in the Midwest has had on camera for a couple of months. I thought this was a great image, with the other smaller buck hiding in the background. The sight of this velvet giant has the BIG DEER TV Team fired up as we hit the road for Season 4. We are starting super early this year, with teams hunting and filming from Colorado to Kentucky next week. Next week... I can hardly believe the season got here so fast! I'll be archery hunting the opener in the Bluegrass State, where there's a 50-50 chance that if I see and get a shot at a big deer his rack will still be in velvet. Or maybe half [...]

23 07, 2014

Is It Safe to Hunt in Mexico?

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 23rd, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Hunting News|9 Comments

Thirty years ago American hunters freely crossed the border to hunt for big deer in Mexico. Just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, American hunters had huge leases, and on those ranches they grew and shot trophy whitetails, notably huge, wide-racked 10- and 12-point typicals. Farther west, Americans crossed at Nogales, Arizona or flew into Hermosillo to hunt the state of Sonora for giant desert mule deer, and Coues whitetails in the mountains. From the 1970s through the 1990s, Mexico was a deer hunter’s paradise: Cheap to travel there, lease land, stay in a hacienda on a ranch for a few weeks each January (when the weather is perfect and the bucks rut) and shoot big deer. Then came the drug wars [...]

18 07, 2014

Video: Best Remington Core-Lokt Deer Shot

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 18th, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads|7 Comments

The bullet that has killed more deer than other turned 75 years old in 2014. Serious gun writers with more knowledge of ballistic coefficients and terminal performance than me say that the iconic Remington Core-Lokt produces good accuracy in most center-fire rifles and “typically sheds considerable weight during expansion and penetration, which quickens the death of an animal.” While I might not have as much ballistics knowledge as those gun writers, I have more field and hunting experience than most of them. I have shot dozens and dozens of whitetails and mule deer (and one blacktail) over the years with 140- to 180-grain Core-Lokts, both the soft-point and pointed-soft-points. The shock and knockdown power of these bullets are impressive. They kill [...]