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18 04, 2018

Bigger Bucks: 5 Food-Plot Pointers

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00April 18th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|2 Comments

One: Design Before You Dig On an aerial map, look for strips and pockets of open ground toward the interior of your property, and plant those first. This keeps your plots—and the bucks they attract--away from roads and the neighbors’ fence lines. Also, the closer you plant to thick bedding cover the better your chances that mature 8- or 10-pointer will pop out into the plot to grab a bite one evening this fall. Think back to past hunts on the land. Whitetails are habitual animals that come and go in the same places from year to year. Where have you seen the most deer and found the found the most trails, rubs and scrapes over the years? Plant your [...]

16 04, 2018

Bucket List Hunt: Carmen Mountain Whitetail

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00April 16th, 2018|BigDeer|1 Comment

Back in 1940, a different type of deer was observed in the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains of Mexico. While nearly identical in color and features to the common whitetail, this animal was considerably smaller in stature, and even a bit smaller than the Coues deer, which inhabits similar mountainous habitat. Scientists studied the animal and identified it as the “Carmen Mountain Whitetail.” A mature Carmen buck weighs 100 pounds and stands about 30 inches high. Antlers are typically baskets, with beams that curve inward. An 8-point buck that scores 80 to 100 inches is a good one. Eighty years ago, the only known habitat of the Carmen whitetail in the U.S. was the Chisos Mountains of Southwest Texas. The tiny [...]

13 04, 2018

Scout Deer In Spring Turkey Season

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00April 13th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

When we scout and hunt a property for deer from September through December, we poke around and look for rubs, scrapes and tracks. But we are reluctant to walk around too much or penetrate too deeply into the woods for fear of bumping deer. That’s good, but trouble is, by working only the perimeters of a hunting area, you only get a glimpse of how and where the deer, and bucks, live and travel. But in the spring, you can walk freely in the woods and investigate every ridge, bottom and thicket for signs of deer. Why not kill two birds with one stone and combine your scouting with your turkey hunting in April and May? At daylight, listen for [...]

11 04, 2018

How to Judge and Measure A Whitetail Buck Rack

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00April 11th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|3 Comments

Print this page, tape it on the wall of your hunting room or camp and refer to it from time to time as you get ready to hit the woods. Tips from Boone and Crockett. Main Beam Length Main beams account for 30 percent of a rack’s score. The average Boone and Crockett-class buck has beams that average 25.63 inches. For field-judging purposes, it's about 8 inches from a buck's eye to the end of its nose, so look for main beams at least 3 times that long. Mass The second most important factor is mass. Circumference measurements taken between the burr and first point (G-1), and between other points along the main beam together provide nearly 18 percent of [...]

9 04, 2018

Vermont’s Biggest Buck In 26 Years

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00April 9th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

The Vermont Big Game Trophy Club reports that Chris Harding’s 2017 Bennington County giant is the highest-scoring buck recorded in the state since 1991. The buck scored 176 7/8 NT, with an inside spread of 23 2/8”. Way to go Chris, I believe this is the first Vermont buck ever posted on BIG DEER.