Got this email recently from Jeff: My son was introduced to bowhunting by my brother, and last year he went out and shot a big 8 pointer. I was reading your article in Bowhunting World magazine about a hunter named Shane Good getting 3 big deer from the same stand. Well, my son will not be moving from his stand anytime soon! The point I was making in that article is that some tree stands are in the perfect spot and produce a good buck year after year after year. Not all stands mind you but some. Here’s the gist of it from that story: “One October afternoon several years ago, Ontario bowhunter Shane Good shot the buck of his dreams: [...]

I don’t have any details on either of these monsters, just what I have seen on Facebook or Twitter. Top photo is a 200-inch full-velvet bow giant from Kentucky. Bottom buck is reportedly from Kansas; I have seen some snide comments on social media that the second deer might be a pen deer, but who knows, anytime somebody kills a really big buck jealous people say that. I do hope it’s wild and legit. Anyhow, the sight of these racks ought to get ya that much more fired up!

Dr. Grant Woods, one of the top deer biologists in the world, told me one time: “Whitetail bucks react incredibly quickly to either a positive or a negative stimulus. A lot of hunters fail to take that into account quickly enough. For example, if a buck sees or hears you in a tree stand near a food plot, he will learn to avoid that spot very fast. He will still go to the plot (positive stimulus) but he will circle your stand (negative stimulus) so that you might never know he was there. You might sit there all afternoon, not see any deer and wonder what is wrong. Hunters need to take into consideration how fast mature bucks react and adjust [...]

Dean posted this photo on Facebook about 2 absolute giants that are traveling together right now on El Puerto Ranch in Neuvo Leon, Mexico: Two complete STUDS!!! One on the left pushing 200" and probably 30-34" wide. The one on the right well in the 180s and dwarfed by "Muy Ancho" on the left! I have always wanted to hunt whitetails in Mexico, but I have not yet gotten up the nerve to head south of the border near Laredo. I have law enforcement friends in this region, and they me this is one of the worst crime areas on the border. As such, there are less Americans traveling down to those ranches these days, and more and more bucks are living longer, to full maturity, and growing [...]