25 09, 2017

Wisconsin Science Teacher Shoots Massive Bow Buck

2020-06-10T09:16:10-04:00September 25th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Wisconsin Science Teacher Shoots Massive Bow Buck

From the Leader Register: What’s it like to walk up on a buck of a lifetime? Webster High School science teacher Greg Widiker knows. Widiker had been watching the deer on trail cameras and scouting since 2014… 2015 the buck got a lot bigger and was estimated to be 4 years old... By 2016 the buck had grown a drop tine, and this year, now estimated to be 6 years old, drop tines were on both beams. “I was definitely very aware of him and the last two years the focus was definitely on him. He was the only deer I was going to shoot,” said Widiker. Greg shot the 16-point beast on 9/17/17, click here for the full story. [...]

21 09, 2017

North Dakota Velvet Bow Buck

2020-06-10T09:16:10-04:00September 21st, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|4 Comments

The first buck of 2017 on BIG DEER blog! Guest post from North Dakota native and bowhunter Kelsey Deutz: We had a couple of years of history with the buck we call “S-10.”  My husband, Nick, hunted him last year.  He was very visible on camera but never came within bow range during the daylight hours. In 2017, we first spotted S-10 about a month before season opened.  We were so glad he made it through the year. He blew up!  Once again, he was very visible on camera, and Nick had seen him on the hoof a few times just after sunrise in the weeks before season opened.  We set up a couple different blinds in different parts of [...]

19 09, 2017

Will Summer Bucks Hang Around This Fall?

2020-06-10T09:16:10-04:00September 19th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|2 Comments

A popular question this time of year: Will the bucks I’ve been watching in fields and getting on my trail cameras this summer stick around when hunting season opens, or once the bachelor groups start separating will the bucks disperse and disappear? According to Penn State’s Deer-Forest study, more than half of the small-antlered yearlings (18 months old) you’ve been seeing will hit the road from mid-September through early November. The adult bucks, however, won’t be going anywhere, which is good news. Very rarely does a mature buck have a different home range during the breeding season from one he used all summer. However, it might seem like the big bucks disappeared. First, the bachelor groups break up. And then during [...]

14 09, 2017

Big Deer’s 2017 Moon-Rut Hunting Guide

2020-06-10T09:16:10-04:00September 14th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|6 Comments

2017 rut moon phases: Full November 4…last quarter November 10…new November 18…first quarter November 26 As I have said time and again here on the blog and on BIG DEER TV, I am neither a scientist nor an astronomer. But I am a whitetail hunter and have been doing it for 40 years, more than 30 of those professionally. I’m also a moon fanatic. Over the years I figure I’ve spent between 880 and 1,000 days in a deer stand in November, during every imaginable moon phase and all waxing and waning days. My journal notes and personal observations say that there is definitely something to the November moon and how it impacts the movements of rutting whitetails. My 2017 [...]

12 09, 2017

Maryland Boy’s First Bow Buck

2020-06-10T09:16:10-04:00September 12th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Science|3 Comments

From our friend Danny, who has been watching hundreds of deer and more than 30 bucks all summer: I set up a tent blind a few weeks ago at a spot where I saw some deer hanging out. My nephew Colby decided he would try it out. He passed a few bucks the first night he hunted it, but he was able to get it done the other evening. Colby had shot several deer previously with rifle and crossbow, but he decided it was time for a compound bow. He saved up his money and bought his first bow last spring.  He practiced all summer and it paid off.  Hope he doesn't think it's always this easy! Around 7:40 that [...]

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