28 04, 2015

World-Record Hanson Buck: 20 Years Later

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 28th, 2015|BigDeer|4 Comments

I saw this great picture yesterday and it reminded me of the visit I made to Milo’s house in  Saskatchewan one day in November 2013. It had always been a goal of mine to see the world-record typical buck in person, and hear the story from Milo himself. Here are excerpts and snippets of what he told me; my entire interview with Milo aired on BIG DEER TV last fall: It was 1993, and the big buck had been seen several times, “he was known around town.” On Monday night it snowed, and the next day a guy saw the buck go into patch of willows. He got Milo and a small group of hunters, and “we devised a plan to push [...]

27 04, 2015

Rut Tactic: Crack Up a Buck

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 27th, 2015|BigDeer|3 Comments

Here’s an off-the-wall tactic to try one day this November, courtesy of my friend Eliot Strommen (Luke’s dad) who hunts strictly w/a longbow out on the Milk River, Montana. It’s similar to rattling, but w/a twist. Eliot glasses for a mature, rut-crazed buck crossing an alfalfa field, swaggering alone or trailing a doe. He then eases into the timber downwind of the deer, glides lightly through the woods and creeps as close as he dares to a spot where the buck can hear him. He sets up behind a tree, picks up a stick and starts cracking trees and whipping brush, making all sorts of racket. For the interesting next step, he picks up his right foot and paws one, two, three….then [...]

24 04, 2015

Review: Barnes VOR-TX Ammo & Copper Bullets For Hunting

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 24th, 2015|BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Remington|5 Comments

Copper bullets for hunting came onto the scene more than 30 years ago. But since I have been traveling all over the country and shooting lead bullets with great success during that time, felling my share of bucks and a few elk, I never felt the need to go non-lead. Until last September, when I traveled to the Central Coast of California to hunt for blacktail deer. Doug Roth, my host for this hunt, told me to bring copper bullets, as lead projectiles were prohibited in the area we’d hunt. This was a first for me, but I gladly did so, seeing this as an opportunity to test a different kind of hunting bullet. On the hunt I carried a [...]

22 04, 2015

Earth Day 2015: Thank You Hunters!

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 22nd, 2015|BigDeer|2 Comments

Happy Earth Day, I hope you can get out and shoot a turkey, do some fishing or just take a hike in the woods and revel in God's great outdoors. You deserve it, because you are one of America’s top environmentalists and conservationists. By paying excise taxes on guns, ammo and bows, we hunters have generated $6.8 billion for wildlife conservation since 1937. For more than 80 years, sportsmen have paid more than $13.7 billion for habitat projects in every state to protect the environment and our fish and wildlife. If you see a greenie-weenie environmentalist strutting around and preening on this Earth Day, tell them to stick that in their pipe and smoke it. And tell them to read this excerpt [...]

21 04, 2015

California: Lead Ammo Ban Statewide

2020-06-10T09:19:38-04:00April 21st, 2015|BigDeer|2 Comments

They have been talking about totally banning lead ammo for hunting in Cali for years, even decades, and now it looks like they are finally going to do it. The NSSF says: The California Fish and Game Commission…adopted regulations to implement a law that will ban the use of traditional lead-component ammunition for all hunting in the state by July 1, 2019. The implementation will involve multiple phases, beginning with the 2015 hunting season. What has started in California could become reality elsewhere as anti-hunting groups use the supposed harm caused by traditional ammunition as a wedge issue to further their ultimate political agenda of banning hunting across the country. Get the facts in this video. Nothing they do out [...]

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