13 10, 2025

15 Blood-Trailing Tips For Deer Hunters

2025-10-13T12:55:49-04:00October 13th, 2025|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|0 Comments

Once you fire an arrow and draw blood, it is your ethical duty to work until you find that buck or doe. Do whatever it takes, for however long it takes: five minutes or five hours or longer. Follow this advice and there's a good chance the red trail will end, happily, at your animal. See Deer Run After the thwack of the arrow, watch the deer run as far as you can see him. In thick woods, look for flashes of white as he darts through the trees. In open country, follow him with your binoculars. At the spot where you lose the buck, pick a marker—big tree, rock, fence post, etc. Climb down from your stand, walk to [...]

7 10, 2025

Deer Science: How Bucks See

2025-10-07T11:43:58-04:00October 7th, 2025|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Science, whitetail deer|0 Comments

The 10-pointer stepped out of the brush, took a quick look around, lowered his head and strolled toward the corner of the bean field. I smiled and put tension on the bowstring. The wind was perfect for where I was sitting, and in less than a minute the buck’s route would take him down a shallow funnel and to a place less than 25 yards below my tree stand. He kept coming, nose to the ground, but 40 yards out he stopped, flinched, peeked up and wheeled back into the cover. What the…? Had I moved a muscle? I didn’t think so. All I knew was that the buck was gone, and I was I left to wonder went wrong, [...]

29 09, 2025

Tips to Find a Big Deer for the Bow Opener

2025-09-29T09:15:54-04:00September 29th, 2025|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, whitetail deer|0 Comments

Scouting and glassing…setting out cameras…hanging stands…shooting the bow over and over. That grunt work is essential, but it is easy to get so consumed with it that you forget to exercise your brain. It is just as important, perhaps more so, to learn where bucks feed and bed now, and where they will continue to hang out when your bow season opens in a few days. That knowledge might help you tag out early. But even if you don’t, it lays groundwork for shooting a good buck later in the season. Science reveals that the living quarters of mature whitetail bucks are relatively small, especially on properties with good food sources. In a study, researchers from North Carolina State University fitted [...]

24 09, 2025

5 Top Bow Stands for Deer

2025-09-24T09:17:11-04:00September 24th, 2025|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|0 Comments

1) An elevated ridge that situated 100 yards or so from a field of corn, soybeans or alfalfa is one of my favorite spots for the pre-rut. Like most early-season setups, it is killer for the afternoons. But if access is good and the wind allows it, you might be able to sneak in and hunt the stand one morning too. If you have a flat of oak trees on your property that runs up a ridge from an ag field, jackpot. Does will come from back in the cover and move through in the afternoon on their way to the field. Some bucks will come and stage on the ridge in late afternoon before moving out to the crops [...]

13 09, 2025

When To Drive Straight To Your Deer Stand

2025-09-11T14:39:41-04:00September 13th, 2025|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|0 Comments

When bowhunting large cut corn or alfalfa fields, I often have a buddy drive a truck or ATV through the field and drop me off as close as possible to my tree stand. On morning hunts, we drive in an hour before sunup; for evening sits, we drive in around 2 p.m. , and I have him pick me up after dark . If deer are out in the field or close by in the surrounding woods, they run off a ways, just as they would when a rancher or farmer drove in any normal day of the week. They are used to farm vehicles. I have my driver (either truck or quad) park and idle there until I slip [...]

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