This is the time of year when, sadly, the road-kills start showing up. This one was was hit by a car about a week ago in Indiana. No details yet, but I'd bet some hunters were scouting this magnificent animal, and probably have trail camera images of him.
Tomorrow evening watch 3 hours of BIG DEER as friends and I travel to Canada to Kansas to Texas to back home in Virginia to hunt whitetail bucks. Not only will the entertainment of these 6 episodes fire you up for the upcoming deer season, you’ll learn some tips from our “Buck Science” segments that will help you out in the woods this fall. Tune in, set your DVR and let me know what you think of these episodes. Thanks for watching and for your support! Special thanks to our sponsors #trijicon #remington #wildlifereseachcenter #spartancamera #mahindra
Matt Tarr, biologist and forester for the University of New Hampshire, tells how to do an acorn survey in your hunting woods in mid-August. Go to the oak trees, glass the upper limbs with binoculars, and estimate the average number of green acorns within 24 inches of each branch tip. Jot down the numbers, check other oak trees in area, and record the data. Then do some basic math. Tarr says that a white oak with an average of 12 to 18 or more acorns per branch is a good to excellent producer this year; with a red oak tree, that number is to 16 to 24 nuts. Hone in on the most productive oak trees and hang your stands [...]
I’ve shot my share of wild hogs over the years, mostly in Texas and Florida. I knew this invasive species was a general nuisance that rooted up crops and competed with deer for food sources. But it wasn’t until I went down to South Georgia and talked with the locals and hunted pigs for a few days on TV that I realized what a serious problem expanding populations of hogs are in many parts of the country. “Somebody rides through this property every day, looking for and trying to eradicate hogs,” says landowner Robbie Barkley. “Hogs are in our feed patches, in the yard…they’re everywhere.” “People who don’t have hogs in their area don’t realize how destructive they are,” says [...]
In early June I got this picture from our friend Dan: Gonna keep an eye on this one… 1,300 pics from 2 cams, 15 different bucks so far, this one is the biggest… 3 others have potential, a lot of growing to do in the next 2 months. Most bucks likely more to show up here to their summer range later… Later on in June Dan wrote: He might be a younger deer. Straight back and belly. What are your thoughts on age? I wrote back and said that judging bucks in summer in tough, they look lean and have skinny necks… Long Brow's rack had a major growth spurt! In July: Weekly update of Long Brow. His G2s are finally above [...]