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14 02, 2017

Shed Hunting: 5 Matched Sets!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 14th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on Shed Hunting: 5 Matched Sets!

Our friend Kelly “Sheddhunter” Kirsch from South Dakota filed this report from the antler fields: First hard day of walking two weeks ago, and looks like people are beating me at what I do so well. There were boot prints in most all the places I walked. I did manage to find a few sheds they left behind. The land these people are walking is all public, so I’ve tied up some adjacent lands where they ought to push the deer to. Hope it works out. This past weekend I walked 17 miles and found 5 matched sets (picture above). Walked another 8 miles the next day and only found 5 antlers. Funny how in some areas the bucks have [...]

13 02, 2017

Illinois Coyote Hunt: 5 Critters and a Shed

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 13th, 2017|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Predator Hunting, Shed Hunting|5 Comments

Longtime BIG DEER blogger Scott from MI and his buddies made their annual trek to coyote camp, and he recaps their awesome hunt: Hi Mike: We headed out about 9:30 am Thursday morning Jan. 26th from Michigan and made the 6-hour trip to northwest Illinois, to a place along the Mississippi River. The normal gang was along for the hunt, good friends John, Ryan, Mike and Jason. My dad Russ did not make the trip this year but I told him I would keep him posted with the play by play if we got some action. The weather was pretty good, mid-teens at night and mid-20s during the day. Winds were a little stronger than we would have liked, about [...]

10 02, 2017

Top 5 Deer Hunting States

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 10th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|4 Comments

Number of antlered bucks (1.5 years and older) harvested in the 2015 season: Texas 290,590 Michigan 191,608 Wisconsin 152,701 Georgia 142,346 Pennsylvania 137,580 Number of does harvested in 2015: Texas 157,247 Georgia 220,503 Pennsylvania 178,233 Alabama 171,123 Wisconsin 159,034 Source: QDMA Whitetail Report 2017

8 02, 2017

Whitetail How-To: Hunt a Buck Rub

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 8th, 2017|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

Mature bucks feeling the rut not only thrash trees with their antlers in November, they also see and veer over to smell, lick and rack other rubs that rival males have made. In Iowa one November day, Brian LaRue looked up and saw a monster coming. Sixty yards out the 22-pointer stopped and mauled a sapling, then looked toward Brian’s tree and lugged on in. The hunter drilled the 222-inch non-typical with an arrow. “I’m convinced he saw the big rub on the other side of my stand and was making a straight line for it,” Brian says. That’s the rub behind Brian and his beast in the picture above. My buddy Luke Strommen read that post and got to [...]

6 02, 2017

Where to Hunt Shed Whitetail Antlers

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 6th, 2017|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on Where to Hunt Shed Whitetail Antlers

Pick up a deer trail and follow it for a half-mile or more, until you come to a thick and obvious bedding area. In late winter that might be a brushy southern exposure that gets midday sunlight, or the east side of a grassy ridge or swamp where deer hunker out of a northwest wind. Last hunting season if you were smart, you would have stopped, tested the wind and worked the outer fringes of such a sanctuary so as not to spook deer. But now, plow right in. Montana artist and shed-hunting fanatic Dick Idol told me one time that he finds 60 percent of his sheds in and around thick covers where mature bucks hide in late winter. [...]