If you shoot a doe or buck and the air temperature is above 50 degrees, as it will be on many days over the next month to 6 weeks, get that carcass cooled down as quickly as you can. "Deer harvested in warm weather have a higher bacterial load, so it's important to dress the deer as soon as possible…remove the hide, and refrigerate the carcass," says Dr. Walter Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian. “Cooling the carcass will prevent bacterial growth." And the higher the bacterial load, the quicker a deer will spoil. Click here for more warm-weather deer-care tips. Cottrell also says to never wash your deer in a creek. I have dunked and sloshed many gutted bucks in [...]

Field report from blogger Wren. With all the rain, the brush country is holding some giants this year. All these bucks are amazing…I’m posting the best one last, my dream buck! Mike, we did our helicopter flyover of The Martinena this past Saturday.  We saw 10-12 bona fide South Texas free-ranging, natural-browse trophies. Looks like it is going to be a very good year for racks in the parts of South Texas that have been  blessed with consistent rains since late winter thru the spring and summer months. Here are six bucks we managed to get photos of.  It was a warm morning, we began flying at 8:00 am and finished up flying the grid on 6,000 acres just after [...]