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11 01, 2024

Choose the Best Hunting Knife

Clay Hanback2024-01-10T09:20:16-05:00January 11th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Gear Reviews, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Choose the Best Hunting Knife

The experts at Buck Knives offer these tips on selecting the best blade for hunting. Will the knife be used or field-dressing and skinning deer, or to clean and skin small game like rabbits and squirrels? Pick the right knife for the job. For gutting and skinning deer, you could choose a knife like the Buck Ranger Skinner, which has a large, curved-belly style. A thinner clip point design would be better suited to dressing small critters. Materials matter--quality steel and handle components ensure a knife can be easily sharpened and held and controlled as you work. A rubber handle, like found on Buck Vanguard, ensures a tight, safe fit all the time and especially in wet conditions. For deer [...]

9 01, 2024

Best Scope for AR Hunting Rifle

Clay Hanback2024-01-09T11:10:52-05:00January 9th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, trijicon|Comments Off on Best Scope for AR Hunting Rifle

Mike: What scope do you recommend for an AR rifle in .308? I’ll be hunting in south Alabama. --Sami Sami: I recommend the Trijicon Credo HX 1-8x28, which is Trijicon’s most popular scope for an AR rifle. True 1X wide field of view for close shots, and up to 8X for longer shots at a buck when needed. I set this scope to 6X for all-round hunting; at this magnification it works perfectly in 95% of hunting situations. Some specs on the Credo HX 1-8: best multi-coated, anti-reflective glass, 34mm tube, and 28mm objective lens for more exit pupil and low light performance; this scope features dual red/green illuminated reticles for pinpoint aiming at deer in any condition or environment. [...]

5 01, 2024

Rut Tactics For Southern Deer Hunters

Clay Hanback2024-01-05T09:24:16-05:00January 5th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Rut, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Rut Tactics For Southern Deer Hunters

Many Midwestern and Northern states have a loosely defined breeding period of 10 days to 3 weeks in November, but it’s more of a strung-out “trickle rut” in most Southern regions, especially the deeper in Dixie you go. Deer breeding in the South is extended because of the mild winters; does can drop fawns later in summer and the little deer can survive the next winter. From late October (Georgia, South Carolina) to mid-November (Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) into December (Mississippi) and January and even February (Alabama), expect spotty periods of bucks pushing does for 4 to 7 weeks or longer, with many slow days in between. While there some fine managed properties in the South, most people hunt public land [...]

21 12, 2023

4 Best Tactics for Late-Season Deer

Clay Hanback2023-12-11T09:27:29-05:00December 21st, 2023|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on 4 Best Tactics for Late-Season Deer

If you’re still hunting and trying to fill a buck tag, remember: Afternoon hunts are best in late season. Deer move from their beds to a cornfield or beans or a thicket or a weedy pasture or a bait pile--anywhere they can find last scraps of food. When you hunt a food source, the wind can’t blow back toward a bedding cover or a travel lane out, and it can’t swirl out into a field where the does will pop out first. Set up downwind of a trail or funnel where your scent will blow back into a dead zone in the timber where no deer will hopefully come out. If just one doe winds you and starts blowing, you [...]

18 12, 2023

Is It Okay to Hunt Deer Near a Property Line?

Clay Hanback2023-11-26T17:10:11-05:00December 18th, 2023|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Is It Okay to Hunt Deer Near a Property Line?

Legally speaking, you hang one, 5 or 20 tree stands near the line that separates your hunting property from a neighbor’s. You can walk around or drive a UTV on your side of the line as much as yu want to. Heck, can pop up a tent and make deer camp as long as you stay on your side of the fence. Property law is simple: You stay on your side of the line, and I’ll stay on mine. But step a boot across the boundary line without permission, and that’s obviously trespassing. Twitter Poll I always assumed every hunter dislikes or downright despises a fence-sitter, or a hunter who posts too close to a property line. But every hunter’s [...]