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11 08, 2014

Summer Scout: Find Big Bucks Now

admin2020-06-10T09:22:47-04:00August 11th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|4 Comments

Guest blog from Montana bowhunter Luke Strommen, a charter member of the Big Deer Hunt Team: Here is story and a lesson I have learned. One time I spotted a gnarly 6x6 buck during my scouting and glassing routines in the summer. The mature whitetail used his primary core area throughout July and August. I saw him many times and took some distant digital images of him from one of our tree stands. He would browse in an irrigated alfalfa field, and having completed his evening ritual, he’d sneak off to spend the night in a 20-acre corn field nearby. He continued this pattern into the early archery season in September, consistently passing by one of my stands, but late. [...]

8 08, 2014

Trail Cam: 2 More Big Bucks!

admin2020-06-10T09:22:47-04:00August 8th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|6 Comments

A bowhunter from a state that is not in the Midwest tweeted this: @mikehanback "buck coming every day 5:20 am and 7:30 PM. And his travel buddy (below) ain’t bad either!" Big racks showing up everywhere...what about where you hunt, seeing any, getting any good pictures?

8 08, 2014

Official: 2014 Big Rack Year!

admin2020-06-10T09:22:47-04:00August 8th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|Comments Off on Official: 2014 Big Rack Year!

The hunter who sent the video of the drop-tine buck pulled his cards and here’s what he got. Huge drop w/mass, dream buck! And look who is traveling in the bachelor group with the drop, another giant, this one w/incredible tine length (pictures 2 and 3 below). And our good friends Zac and Ellie had been watching a couple bucks for the past 2 weeks. One day when the wind was right they snuck in, set up a camera and captured the great picture below. Fantastic work guys. From these cam images and others I'm seeing, I now officially proclaim that 2014 will be a big rack year, much better than last year. Send me your trail camera images to get us even more fired up, [...]

6 08, 2014

Trail Cam: Two Big Virginia Bucks!

admin2020-06-10T09:22:47-04:00August 6th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|3 Comments

This image was posted on the Virginia Whitetails Facebook about 20 hours ago: Doug sent this trail cam pic of some great Cumberland County bucks. Love that high-tower rack, and the buck on the right is no slouch either. It was a good rack year here in the Old Dominion in 2013, and if these bucks are an indication, gonna be great again this year.

6 08, 2014

Mexico Whitetail Hunting 2014

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00August 6th, 2014|BigDeer|1 Comment

Awhile back I posted on my recent deer hunting trip to Mexico. I hunted out in Sonora—mule deer and Coues country—and while I was anxious with the travel (especially with a rifle and ammo) I made it okay and enjoyed hunting in the desert for a week. With all you see and read about the crime and chaos on our southern border, the major points of that post were: Is it safe to hunt in Mexico in 2014? Would I recommend you hunt there? I blogged: Do not even think about crossing the border from El Paso east to Laredo, Texas, where the whitetail hunting was once so fine… Just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, American hunters (years ago [...]