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29 08, 2021

Deer Science: Bucks’ Summer & Winter Ranges

Clay Hanback2021-08-29T12:10:25-04:00August 29th, 2021|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Science, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Deer Science: Bucks’ Summer & Winter Ranges

I have blogged and said on TV many times that the big buck you’ve been scouting and watching right now in late summer might still be in the same area when hunting season opens, or he might be a mile or more away if he shifts between a summer/fall and winter range. This graphic and Instagram post from the experts at the Mississippi State Deer Lab sum it up well: "About 1/3 of adult bucks in one of our recent studies have seasonal home range segments, like buck 20 pictured here. He spent late summer and fall in the eastern portion of his range. For two consecutive years, he packed up shop around November 1 and moved to the western [...]

27 08, 2021

How To Bowhunt Deer From A Ground Blind

Clay Hanback2021-08-27T09:07:43-04:00August 27th, 2021|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on How To Bowhunt Deer From A Ground Blind

Pop-up camouflage blinds work great to hide you, and especially to cover your moves as you draw your bow. But more times than not, no matter how well you hide the tent and brush it in with sticks and vegetation, deer will see it and shy from it. This is especially true if you try to pop up a blind a week or 2 before you plan to hunt a spot. Does seem to be more blind-shy than bucks. But when an old doe sees you blind, smells a rat, and starts stamping and blowing before flagging off, any bucks nearby become wired and alerted to something in the area just ain’t right. They’ll vacate the area or at least [...]

25 08, 2021

11 Best Tree Stand Tips

Clay Hanback2021-08-25T14:24:03-04:00August 25th, 2021|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on 11 Best Tree Stand Tips

Set your best tree stands ever this season with these 10 hanging tips: Don’t clang and bang and spook a buck before you hunt him. Secure stand sections, seat, chain, buckles, etc. with rope or elastic bands so they’re quiet as you hike into a spot. Backpack your stand toward a hunting site from downwind and through a dead zone where few deer hang out. Hide and sneak behind cover. A straight, solid tree 12 to 15 inches in diameter is perfect for a fixed-position or “lock-on” stand. It is easy and safe to get your arms around a tree that size as you set steps, climb and hang a perch. Once you’re up and hunting, a tree just as [...]

23 08, 2021

Get High: Best Bow Practice For Deer Hunters

Clay Hanback2021-08-23T07:16:56-04:00August 23rd, 2021|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Get High: Best Bow Practice For Deer Hunters

Standing in the backyard and burning arrow after arrow into foams target is the best way to get your bow and arrows tuned, your shooting muscles toned and your release and follow-through down pat. But along about August it’d time to raise your game and shoot from an elevated platform like you’ll do when buck season rolls around in a few short months. Why Get High? On the ground you stand fence-post straight, plant your feet in a baseball hitter’s stance, stare across at your target, draw with ease and let an arrow fly. Pretty simple. In a tree stand, you have to turn and contort your body, sometimes wildly so, and your footing is trickier. Leaning left, right, back [...]

19 08, 2021

Deer Tip Of The Day: Move A Buck Blocker

Clay Hanback2021-08-19T14:09:16-04:00August 19th, 2021|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Deer Tip Of The Day: Move A Buck Blocker

Here is a tip of the day you might never have thought about: Whenever you set a tree stand for bowhunting, scan the ground around it out to 50 yards or so, and look for a good-size log, brushy treetop or similar barrier that might block a buck from walking within 30 yards of your stand on natural movement. It amazes me how many hunters fail to do this. They end up sitting and watching deer after deer skirt a log or treetop and veer 10 to 30 yards away from their stand, and out of bow range. If you’re able, drag a log or fallen tree away from the area and stash it 80 yards or so downwind. Better [...]