1 05, 2014

Big Deer TV: The Right Hunting Message

2020-06-10T09:23:02-04:00May 1st, 2014|BigDeer|1 Comment

Mike: Your show gets better with each passing year. I like the way you keep putting hunting in the proper perspective. I am sending a picture of my 2013 Indiana buck taken during bow season. What I like most about the deer is who I got to share it with. My daughter Jenna is with me on most of my hunting trips. She has a crossbow this year and will be chasing deer herself not just watching Dad. Thanks for having the same values as we do and broadcasting them in a positive light.--Chad Gray Chad, thanks for the kind words. You are obviously a great dad, and you're hunting the right way. Doesn't get any better than that. And good luck with [...]

30 04, 2014

Huge Canada Shed!

2020-06-10T09:23:02-04:00April 30th, 2014|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

  Corey W. shared this huge shed on Facebook. From the looks of the green mold and the chewed beam tip, the white-grade antler had been lying out there for a couple years. What a great secret souvenir! Corey said: A true Canadian Monarch!!! 5 point side, typical, nearly 90 inches!!! This is type of deer that roam the wilds of Saskatchewan! Yes. Although the antler quality has been down the last couple of years in the region of northern Saskatchewan where I hunt, the possibility of running across a buck that grows and sheds an antler like this is why I keep going back up there every November. BTW, this is a typical antler for Saskatchewan, super heavy mass throughout [...]

29 04, 2014

Shed Hunt Archives: Well-Pit Buck

2020-06-10T09:23:02-04:00April 29th, 2014|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|4 Comments

I was looking back through the BIG DEER archives, and ran across this most unusual shed hunt we have ever posted. Man, you never know what you’re going to find in the woods: About 20 years ago, some Missouri guys had been shed hunting all day to no avail when they decided to check a 2-acre thicket around an old homestead. Walking around the crumbled stone foundation, one fellow found an old well. He kneeled, looked down and saw the remains of this buck down in it. The hunters first thought that maybe someone had poached the deer the previous season and stuffed it in there. But when they pulled the deer out, there were no bullet holes in the body [...]

28 04, 2014

New Research: Scent-Eliminating Hunting Sprays Effective

2020-06-10T09:23:02-04:00April 28th, 2014|BigDeer|5 Comments

On my TV show you see us regularly spray down with Scent Killer (full disclosure, one of our great sponsors). I mist my boots, clothes, pack, etc. every day while I’m hunting and filming. It’s become second nature. One night last fall a guy watched an episode and wrote me: “Mike, stop using that spray. It makes you look foolish. That stuff does not work.” Ah, the non-believers. Anyway, that guy is wrong. Here’s the latest confirmation that scent-eliminating products do work. In a lab at Mississippi State University (MSU), Shamitha Dissanayake, a graduate student, and Todd Mlsna, Ph.D., head of the lab, are working on ways to best collect and analyze volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from body odor. Their goal [...]

25 04, 2014

Iowa Bow Buck

2020-06-10T09:23:02-04:00April 25th, 2014|BigDeer|1 Comment

Sometimes the best and most meaningful blogs are the simplest: Mike: Thought I would share my November 13, 2013 buck with you. This guy came running in after I had blown the grunt call. He came in behind me, and I had to spin around and come to full draw on the other side of my stand tree. He stopped at 15 yards broadside, so I took the shot. Went 30 yards and expired. Blessed to have my sons around to share in the harvest and help get him out of the woods! Thanks & God Bless—Jeremy Miner The simple lesson, share what we do with your kids or grandkids.  

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