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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 [...]

23 02, 2017

Oklahoma 20-Point Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00February 23rd, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

Robert Nichols, who creates the best amateur deer-skull art I’ve ever seen, says: Hey Mike: Just wanted to share. My youngest son, Ethan Nichols, shot this buck on 11/23/16. The rack has 20 points total! Ethan had been watching this deer since early August and had a lot of trail cam pics of him. I'm super proud of him. You did a blog on Ethan’s first deer 2 years ago, and it made his hunt even more of a success to him. Thank you for that, and thanks for checking this one out.—Robert from Oklahoma

17 02, 2017

Virginia 2016: Wayne Mills Bow Buck Nets 172 6/8

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00February 17th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Virginia 2016: Wayne Mills Bow Buck Nets 172 6/8

Excerpt of the story Wayne Mills, who lives and hunts in north-central Virginia, told me one day last fall, read the whole post here: On Friday, October 21st we had a cold front moving in and forecast for winds to swing from the SW to the N after the front came through. I got in the stand about 2:00 p.m. and waited for the shift in the wind. By 3:30 the wind had started blowing from the north. At 5:15 the birds alerted me, and I looked toward the ruckus to see a deer moving through the brush about 40 yards away, coming out of the bedding area. I saw a rack… It looked unusual. I saw that it had good mass and spread [...]

16 02, 2017

Oklahoma 2016 Deer Season: Top Big Deer Year!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 16th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Oklahoma 2016 Deer Season: Top Big Deer Year!

One day last August I blogged: From what I’m seeing and hearing this has the potential to be the best buck season across America since 2010. It was, and here is a good example. From Paul’s Valley Democrat: Oklahoma’s 2016 deer season is well on its way to revamping the record books. Alan Peoples, chief of wildlife with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said: “I have the privilege of seeing a bunch of big deer racks pass through my office every year and I’ve never seen this many at one time.” Several monstrous non-typicals from the bow season have been reported so far, including Travis Ocker’s 245 2/8” beast from Comanche County (photo top). More racks scoring from 180 [...]