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12 09, 2013

Colorado: Do-It-Yourself Elk Hunt

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 12th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|4 Comments

Longtime blogger Matt “Flatlander” Cheever writes in about his recent elk hunt: Hey Mike, just got back from Colorado on a DIY public-land elk hunt and what an awesome experience it was. I enjoy nothing more than a good whitetail hunt, but I have to say elk hunting is pretty amazing. We hunted in groups of two and three, chasing bugles and traversing the mountains. The altitude definitely is a gut check to how hard you are willing to push it to succeed, but the feeling of success afterward is like nothing else. I was blessed to take a nice mature 5x5 and had a few buddies to help pack it out. Most avid elk hunters said, “You’ll never be [...]

11 09, 2013

Pictorial: South Texas Flyover Bucks

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 11th, 2013|BigDeer|8 Comments

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 [...]

9 09, 2013

Maryland: Bowhunter Shoots “Spike” on Opening Day!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 9th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Deer Science|9 Comments

Danny shot the beautiful buck his wife had named “Spike” last Friday. His story: I had my trail cameras set at three different locations since the middle of June. I studied all the pictures (around 200 of them) I got of Spike. I printed out the moon phases and the wind directions for the past couple months, compared them and tried to come up with a game plan. Maryland bow opener was Sept 6--the morning after the new moon. The wind direction was supposed to be out of the NNE. I looked back through all the cam pictures, and it just so happened the last time we had a NNE wind was the morning after the new moon in August. Spike was [...]

6 09, 2013

2013 BIG DEER Hunt Forecast

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 6th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Deer Science|5 Comments

After a string of dry to drought years, we’ve had good rain and cool temperatures this spring/summer in many regions. Here in VA and down through the Carolinas, I cannot remember a cooler, wetter summer. Take a look at the U.S. Drought Monitor. With the exception of western Kansas and a few spots in Nebraska, the majority of whitetail range is looking pretty good. There are spots of dry ground, but overall the conditions are much improved over the last few years. In many areas, the corn is tall and the two most prominent and protein-rich legumes for deer, soybeans and clover, are lush and thick. That’s great, but the rebirth of the natural vegetation across the nation, which not [...]

5 09, 2013

Man Struck with Rage Broadhead

admin2020-06-10T09:23:22-04:00September 5th, 2013|BigDeer, Bowhunting, Hunting News|3 Comments

I shoot Rage and I have seen the damage it does to a deer, so I shuddered when I read this: TJ Cartwright, 23, was struck with an arrow in the cheek while hunting deer with three companions… Cartwright was taking video ahead of the hunting party when a buck began making its way across the field. As the hunters began positioning themselves to take a shot, Cartwright inadvertently ended up between the archer and the target. As the shooter, whose bow was drawn, attempted to throw the shot away, the arrow accidentally released. Cartwright stood and was hit. The broadhead lodged near TJ’s carotid artery. Surgeons worked for more than eight hours to remove it. "Even though he is [...]