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20 02, 2015

How to Wear Camo Face Paint

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 20th, 2015|BigDeer|10 Comments

It shouldn't, but it irks me when I see all these guys and gals who feel the need to paint their faces like a WWE wrestler or a college football player prepping for the big game when they go bowhunting for deer. The trendy color is black, and common designs are flames or swirls that shoot up and back over the cheeks, or “warrior” teardrops that start below the eye and streak down to the jaws. That look works in the ring or on the field, but in a tree stand? No. In my opinion fancy paint makes you look kind of silly, and like you’ve never been there before…like you are a rookie or wannabe. And although I’m sure the face painters [...]

18 02, 2015

Deer Hunting: 5 Reasons You Didn’t Shoot a Big Buck Last Season

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 18th, 2015|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|11 Comments

The 2014 deer season is over, and if you hunted hard but didn’t shoot a big deer, I have some ideas why: You hunted a poor area. You’ll never shoot a big buck if you hunt where no big bucks live. Sounds elementary, but it’s not. If you’ve hunted a farm or woods for many years and have killed plenty of small to decent bucks but have never seen a monster, you need to look for new ground to hunt. A different farm or woods 20 to 50 to 100 miles down the road may have little pressure and better habitat, especially better year-round food sources for deer. Get permission and your odds of shooting a big deer go way up. It’s worth [...]

17 02, 2015

Kansas: Massive Shed Antler!

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 17th, 2015|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

Saw this on my Twitter @mikehanback: Fresh set of sheds from Kansas, insane mass! Yes, incredible mass, especially if these are from a wild deer! How many of you are shed-hunting...how many have you found? Send me your shed pictures and stories to post.

16 02, 2015

Shed Hunting: If You Find A Dead Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 16th, 2015|BigDeer, Predator Hunting, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

Shed hunters across America are starting to roam the woods. In addition to finding antlers, a few of you will find deer that died within the last several months from natural causes or were shot and lost by hunters last season. Ken found this first one in VA the other day. Kelly found this one in South Dakota last month. This last carcass, found by one of the Drury team members, somewhere in the Midwest, is mysterious. They had spotted this buck alive and well on January 9, 2015, but found his remains just weeks later. How had the deer died—natural causes, coyotes, or maybe poached? Deer skulls/racks are sad finds, but they make good shed-hunting trophies if you know [...]

12 02, 2015

Illinois: Giant Shotgun Buck, 185 Inches!

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 12th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

Hey Mike: I love checking out your site and reading about big bucks. You featured my brother, Daniel, and I couple of years back when we teamed up on a 176-inch 13-point buck during the Illinois shotgun season. I've got another story for you from the first Illinois gun season 2014 in Adams County. We had been watching this buck for 4 years. The first picture we ever got of him, we guessed him to be a 3.5-year-old 10-pointer. The next year he put on some inches and had long G-2s and G-3s but short G-4s. We had never actually seen this buck in the woods, and we hadn’t gotten any hard-horn pictures of him. In 2013 the buck [...]