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8 06, 2016

Record Gun Sales Continue As Americans Fear Clinton Presidency

admin2020-06-10T09:16:47-04:00June 8th, 2016|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Hunting News|3 Comments

Over the past 7 years, a popular saying in the firearms industry has been, “Obama has been the best gun salesman we could have!” The President’s anti-gun rheteroic and actions have produced record gun sales that will no doubt continue, and likely increase substantially, as law-abiding Americans anticipate a win for Hillary this November. As this article in the Washington Free Beacon points out, “Both President Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have publicly expressed support for Australian-style gun confiscation measures. Clinton has also said the Supreme Court was wrong on Second Amendment gun rights protections…” Let me repeat that: support for gun confiscation and wrong on Second Amendment gun rights. “There is no doubt that the string of record [...]

6 06, 2016

Dragging Deer Is Good, Hard Work

admin2020-06-10T09:16:47-04:00June 6th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|10 Comments

I wrote this in a magazine article many years ago: …anybody who kills a deer and then has the gall to complain about the work when the animal is down will never hunt with me again. If you are doing it right, gutting a buck and then wrestling it around and over logs, up and down hills, through creeks and mud, all the while sweating a river and stumbling and bumbling and cussing back to your truck is strangely fun and invigorating, whether it takes you 20 minutes or 2 hours or all day. The work was a lot harder back in the day. I didn’t have an ATV, and so I had to drag my deer, sometimes a mile [...]

3 06, 2016

Public Land Deer: Summer Scout Now

admin2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00June 3rd, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|2 Comments

Don’t let the ticks and snakes keep you from finding new spots to hunt this fall. It’s time to get out there and start scouting. Lather on the DEET, put on snake boots and get a leg up on those other guys who are playing golf or kicked back on a beach or in the A/C somewhere. Let’s say you hunt a 250-acre woodland. You’ve probably hunted only 50 to 75 of those acres over the years, if that. You figure other guys roam the ridges and hollows beyond your stand. Or maybe you’ve just gotten in a rut and hunted the same spots. You bust some does every year and a buck every once in a while, so why [...]

2 06, 2016

BREAKING: Is the Walking World-Record Buck of Wisconsin Dead?

admin2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00June 2nd, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer|2 Comments

BIG DEER BLOG has the exclusive on this giant. When I first posted the photo last October, people went wild over this giant. When I followed up with this after-season report from the landowner, who had been hunting the deer for a couple of years and who had named him “Ghost,” we learned: There seems to be a rumor every couple weeks that Ghost has been shot or hit by a vehicle, but he is alive and well…. I’m sure I’ll see him again before too long once I begin work on my spring habitat projects. Previously I had wanted to keep everything about this buck somewhat quiet, but my area is not conducive to poachers seeing him due to the way the [...]

31 05, 2016

What is a Piebald Deer?

admin2020-06-10T09:16:48-04:00May 31st, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Science|Comments Off on What is a Piebald Deer?

Mike, I have seen some beautiful brown and white bucks on your blog over the years and was wondering: what causes the white in their coats? How rare are they? Gary, Virginia Experts say a genetic defect causes the “piebald” condition in white-tailed deer, when a deer’s hide—doe or buck—will be colored white and brown, similar to a pinto pony. Sometimes a piebald’s hide will appear almost entirely white, or in other cases, mostly brown. Regardless of coat color, a piebald has brown eyes and a black nose and hooves, just like any normal whitetail. In addition to a pinto coat, a mature piebald might have short legs and a Roman (bowed) nose, the latter evident in the amazing cam [...]