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25 06, 2013

Best & Worst States for Gun Owners

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 25th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Hunting News|1 Comment

Guns & Ammo has built a list of the best (and worst) places to be a gun shooter/hunter. They based their criteria on state firearms laws, concealed carry, etc. As you might expect New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California ranked dead last. Best gun states were Arizona, Alaska, Utah, Kentucky and Vermont (a mild surprise to me). My native Virginia ranked a disappointing 24, though I do not feel my rights as a gun owner have been squeezed in recent years, even though our state is becoming more liberal. Click here to read the list and see where your state ranks.

24 06, 2013

Buck Science: How Much More Will Velvet Antlers Grow?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 24th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Science|Comments Off on Buck Science: How Much More Will Velvet Antlers Grow?

The bucks’ racks are growing fast; how much bigger will they get? In this blog, top whitetail scientist Dr. Grant Woods says: Bucks will have most of their beam length developed by this week. Most of their points will be showing by mid-June. Some bucks will have all points showing and some will add a few points…tine length is likely to be less than half developed at this time. Those are general rules, but Grant points out that the growth of individual racks can vary widely: Some bucks will show a lot of antler growth early, while others seem to add a bunch to their rack during July. About the picture: Luke Strommen photographed this Milk River buck one summer [...]

20 06, 2013

“Big Deer TV” Season 2 on Sportsman Channel

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 20th, 2013|Big Deer TV, BigDeer|95 Comments

The new season kicks off Wednesday, July 3 at 8 PM EST and runs through hunting season and the end of the year. Special thanks to Intermedia Outdoors, especially the amazing cameramen and editors, for their hard work. Big shout out to our sponsors, top brands in the industry: Cabela’s, Remington, Trijicon, Wildlife Research Center, Yeti Coolers and Zippo. To find Sportsman Channel in your area, click here. Hope you enjoy these highlights, tell me what you think.

19 06, 2013

“Titanic” 8-Point Buck Scored 154!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 19th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Management, Deer Science, Shed Hunting|108 Comments

Today’s post from blogger Jon, who hunts up in Minnesota/Wisconsin: Mike: I have any update from a post last year. I sent you the velvet picture of Titanic last August, and we had a lot of people guess at the score. Well, in early November 2012 I had a great encounter with this buck. I was sitting a cut corn field with a buck decoy out when the bruiser came in chasing does at last light. I didn’t know it was Titanic, but I knew it was one of the 3 big shooters we had on camera. He locked up at 35 yards, but was facing directly at me, staring at the decoy. I waited at full draw for what [...]

18 06, 2013

Buck Science: How Many Big Deer Do You See?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:34-04:00June 18th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Deer Science|7 Comments

I’ve got a segment on my TV show called “Buck Science” where I talk about some aspect of the deer behavior in the area I’m hunting each week. Let’s make it a weekly segment here on the blog as well, since the more we know and learn about mature bucks, the better we hunt. I dug this first one out of my research files. Tennessee deer researcher Bryan Kinkel says: Reviewing the many trail-camera/observation data sets I have gotten from serious deer hunters and land managers, I have come to the conclusion that it's common for hunters to see 90% of the yearling bucks that regularly use their property. That sighting percentage declines to about 70% for 2 1/2-year-old bucks [...]