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3 01, 2025

Here’s How to Store Your Gear After Hunting Season

Clay Hanback2025-01-03T08:45:06-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Hornady, Hunting News, Shed Hunting, trijicon|Comments Off on Here’s How to Store Your Gear After Hunting Season

I've taken a little time off to recuperate from a tough deer season and to enjoy the holidays with family. Now back at f0r 2025.--MH After the last deer hunt of the season in December or January, many of you toss your clothes, pack and other stuff in a heap in a backroom and don’t think twice about it for another seven or eight months, until it’s time to scout and bow hunt again. I used to do that too, but I’m more organized now. This week I’m spreading out my gear on the basement floor, and giving it a good once over while last season’s hunts are still fresh in my mind. Out with the Old Did you like [...]

17 12, 2024

The Perfect Ground Blind for Deer Hunting

Clay Hanback2024-12-11T10:13:59-05:00December 17th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management, Hunting News, Shed Hunting, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on The Perfect Ground Blind for Deer Hunting

I’ve frozen my fanny off way too many days in a tree stand in December. Nowadays when I’m desperately trying to fill my last tag I sit on the ground. It’s warmer down there, and if you set up right, you also have better hiding cover. The keys are to keep your blind small and tight, and to build it in just the right spot downwind of where you expect to see deer. Location: You can plop down anywhere and shoot a buck at 150 yards or farther with a .270. But when you’re using a slug-gun or a muzzleloader and hoping for an ideal shot of 100 yards and in, where you sit becomes more important. If you’re bowhunting, [...]

20 11, 2024

Deer Scent Trick: Double Drag Line

Clay Hanback2024-11-14T12:36:56-05:00November 20th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Deer Scent Trick: Double Drag Line

You need two separate drag lines for this ruse. The first is the rope or piece of nylon that you’ve always used to pull one scent wick. The second is a double drag that you make for pennies. Cut a string about four feet long. Cut a second string one foot long, and tie it toward the front of the first string so that it rides about a foot from your boot as you drag along the lines. Now tie a wick to each end of the string. One of those wicks with a big hole at the top works great. When you’re 150 yards or so out from your stand, pull out your double drag. Juice the long line’s [...]

14 11, 2024

Will Coyotes Get the Deer You Shot?

Clay Hanback2024-11-14T12:21:54-05:00November 14th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Predator Hunting, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Will Coyotes Get the Deer You Shot?

You just shot a buck with your bow, and are unsure of the shot. A bit high, or a little back? There are coyotes in your area. Should you push it and track the deer immediately, or wait a few hours or maybe overnight? A Dog Man’s Advice John Jeanneney, a New York breeder of top blood-trailing dachshunds, tracks more bowshot whitetails in a season than most of us will in a lifetime. In his book, Dead On!, John says it’s time to re-think our tracking strategies. With most arrow hits, even marginal ones in and around a buck’s vitals, John says to get on the blood trail and go. No more waiting 30 minutes to several hours. And no [...]

4 11, 2024

6 Great Stands for the Whitetail Rut

Clay Hanback2024-11-01T10:08:46-04:00November 4th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on 6 Great Stands for the Whitetail Rut

I’ve keyed these 6 setups to the 3 different stages of the rut you’ll be hunting this fall. Whether the big bucks are feeding, rubbing, scraping or chasing the does, we’ll put you in the hot seat. All that’s left is making the shot, and that is up to you. PRE-RUT: The River Strip One September morning my buddy Dan Jones climbed into a tree stand he’d set 50 yards off a river in northern Montana. The south wind was perfect, blowing out of an alfalfa field 100 yards to the south, wafting through the narrow timber strip and pushing his scent across the deep river where no deer would approach. Around 7:30 Dan saw movement on a trail 150 [...]