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13 03, 2017

Shed-Hunting: Antler Trivia

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00March 13th, 2017|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on Shed-Hunting: Antler Trivia

Did you know…some fun facts about antlers and shed-hunting: The #1 Typical Whitetail Antler in the Shed Record Book is a 6-point 104 6/8” left side picked up in Illinois 1992. The #1 Non-Typical Whitetail Antler in the Shed Record Book is a 24-point 156 5/8” right side found in Saskatchewan 2007. Individual bucks often shed their antlers the same week every year. Antlers are the fastest-growing tissue in the animal kingdom. Increasing daylight and a buck’s falling testosterone cause antlers to shed. Once a buck drops one antler, the other one usually falls off within hours. Huge whitetail antlers can be found in many city parks and suburbs. Get permission to shed hunt these type areas if you can. [...]

9 03, 2017

Alabama: New Bill Would Expand Baiting for Deer

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00March 9th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Hunting News|Comments Off on Alabama: New Bill Would Expand Baiting for Deer

The Montgomery Adviser reports that a bill working its way through the Alabama legislature would allow hunters more options for using bait to lure deer and hogs. It passed the house Tuesday and heads to the state senate for consideration. The new bill would not only expand baiting in Alabama, but also clear up confusion due to a law that went into effect just last hunting season. That current law allows hunters to use “supplemental feed” if the feed source is at least 100 yards away from the hunter and out of his or her direct line of sight. That law caused confusion among hunters and, I suspect, game wardens last season. Just what does “out of sight” mean? Suppose [...]

8 03, 2017

South Dakota Shed Hunter Up to 70 Antlers and Counting

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00March 8th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on South Dakota Shed Hunter Up to 70 Antlers and Counting

Update from our expert, Kelly “Shedhunter” Kirsch: Mike: Walked 17.8 miles on Saturday, it was very warm, and picked up 15. One real nice set, maybe in the 160s. I found the antlers about ¾-mile apart. Sunday I hurt, so I used the Quad to cover a sunflower field and picked 12 more. Total for the year is right on 70 sheds, not a bad start. Take a look at that sunflower field. A lot of people I run into that think that antlers have to be knocked off by tree, fence post, or something. But there’s really nothing like that out here in places. Sometimes the antlers just fall off, and I have watched bucks hit the ground with [...]

2 03, 2017

Amazing Wild Turkey Trail-Camera: Kansas Birds Gone Wild!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00March 2nd, 2017|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|1 Comment

My friend Brian Helman, who lives in southeastern Kansas and works for 180 Outdoors, sent me this image the other day with the message: If you get a chance come on out this spring, these turkeys are waiting on you… The more I study the image the more amazed I am. I can definitively identify at least 18 longbeards, and surely there are many more, though some of the black blogs must be hens. Moreover, looking back to the far wood line, I count at least 83 birds marching out into the field, and who knows how many more are still back in the woods? How many turkeys do you count? Isn’t this the most interesting turkey image you’ve [...]

28 02, 2017

10 Ways to Improve Your Deer Hunting Land

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00February 28th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|1 Comment

(Photo: Matt "Flatlander" Cheever) Scatter food plots of about one acre across your ground. Design and build them to take advantage of thick cover and the predominant winds in the area in fall deer season. The closer you plant to a thicket where a mature buck can pop out to feed with his nose in the wind, the better the chance you’ll see him in daylight hours. Give deer a salad bar. Plant 60 percent of your plots with a perennial like a clover/chicory mix that will provide a steady food source for three to five years. Plant the other 40 percent with a fast-growing, tasty annual like oats or wheat. Planting 1,000 yards of logging road is like putting [...]