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23 07, 2014

Is It Safe to Hunt in Mexico?

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 23rd, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Hunting News|9 Comments

Thirty years ago American hunters freely crossed the border to hunt for big deer in Mexico. Just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, American hunters had huge leases, and on those ranches they grew and shot trophy whitetails, notably huge, wide-racked 10- and 12-point typicals. Farther west, Americans crossed at Nogales, Arizona or flew into Hermosillo to hunt the state of Sonora for giant desert mule deer, and Coues whitetails in the mountains. From the 1970s through the 1990s, Mexico was a deer hunter’s paradise: Cheap to travel there, lease land, stay in a hacienda on a ranch for a few weeks each January (when the weather is perfect and the bucks rut) and shoot big deer. Then came the drug wars [...]

22 07, 2014

Trail Cam: VA Bachelor Bucks

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 22nd, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|3 Comments

This group of bucks is hanging in a woods somewhere here in Virginia. I know the area, that right buck is going to be a shooter come bow season in October. Good lesson here: As you watch and study trail-camera images of a buck group in late summer, study the makeup of that group (in this case a 6-point, a small 8-point and the larger 8-point shooter) because it is very likely that those bucks will keep traveling together throughout September into early October. Then say you're on stand on the bow opener. If you see one of those little bucks coming through the woods, stand up, grab your bow and get ready. All the bucks and the shooter are probably following, and hopefully the big boy will pass within shooting range.

18 07, 2014

Video: Best Remington Core-Lokt Deer Shot

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 18th, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads|7 Comments

The bullet that has killed more deer than other turned 75 years old in 2014. Serious gun writers with more knowledge of ballistic coefficients and terminal performance than me say that the iconic Remington Core-Lokt produces good accuracy in most center-fire rifles and “typically sheds considerable weight during expansion and penetration, which quickens the death of an animal.” While I might not have as much ballistics knowledge as those gun writers, I have more field and hunting experience than most of them. I have shot dozens and dozens of whitetails and mule deer (and one blacktail) over the years with 140- to 180-grain Core-Lokts, both the soft-point and pointed-soft-points. The shock and knockdown power of these bullets are impressive. They kill [...]

17 07, 2014

Trail Camera: Mini-Beast Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 17th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management|4 Comments

Remember this image of "The Beast" from yesterday? I said the gentleman who has the net Booner on his camera has hit the mother lode. Well, I was wrong. Now that guy has hit the rich lode. He posted this last night: NEW BUCK ALERT (below)... Lol... I think I will call him "Mini-Beast" since he lives on the same farm as "The Beast." Cool. From what I'm seeing early, this is going to be a good rack year, certainly better than 2013 I hope. Send me your trail-camera images to fire us up. You have my word I'll never divulge your name or the location of the buck you'll be hunting.

16 07, 2014

Giant Typical Buck on Trail Cam!

admin2020-06-10T09:22:48-04:00July 16th, 2014|BigDeer|6 Comments

A gentleman somewhere in the Midwest (where else?) has hit the mother lode, and has this symmetrical 10-point giant on his cam. Look at those brows, and the rack is still growing! Unique shot in the corn like that. Net Boone for sure, good luck to the hunter.