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28 08, 2017

Photo: Winnipeg City Monster Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:10-04:00August 28th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|2 Comments

Mike emailed me this image, pulled from a computer screen, of a monster whitetail that is living within the city limits of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. Wow! Archery season in Manitoba opens in 2 days, August 30. I wonder how many guys who hunt on property that borders the city limit side where this giant has been spotted hope he slips across the boundary and onto private land where they hunt? Will be interesting to see is this buck is shot in the coming weeks, I’ll keep an eye out for it. We’ve posted some giants that live in cities and suburbs over the years, like the above from Urbandale, Iowa. And this buck was spotted living and feeding in a [...]

30 07, 2017

Best Woods Spots For Trail Cameras

admin2020-06-10T09:16:11-04:00July 30th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|1 Comment

Mike: Missouri just banned all feeding and minerals, even salt, in the county that I hunt due to two cases of Chronic Wasting Disease. Seems like a dramatic ruling for just two cases, but that is the way it goes. When I put out trail cameras now, do you think that without the attractant, deer will still visit the same places? Or am I at square one? Eighty percent of the 400-acre farm I hunt is just woods, no food plots. Any suggestions?—Marc from MO Marc: While it seems like an overreaction, scientists across the country have increased the alarm about the threat of CWD, so we all should expect more decisions like that. To your question, if you have used the same mineral [...]

26 07, 2017

2 Monster Roadkill Bucks

admin2020-06-10T09:16:11-04:00July 26th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

Seems like I have seen an inordinate number of deer hit and killed on the roads this summer, what about you? Every auto deer kill is a shame, but the 2 below really hurt. This 200" plus non-typical was reportedly killed in the Fort Campbell area of Kentucky. I bet the hunter(s) who were scouting that giant are sick. I bet trail-cam pictures of this deer will surface soon. Word is this cool buck was found roadside in Indiana. In addition to the rack, beautiful dark face. This buck died weeks ago, his rack would have grown a bunch more now.

24 07, 2017

Trail-Camera Tuesday, July 2017

admin2020-06-10T09:16:11-04:00July 24th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|1 Comment

This buck just showed up on a VA farm I hunt, don't know what spooked him. Big split brow on left! Heavy VA buck going through that same little gap between 2 cornfields--one of best setups for a camera--gonna be a 9-pointer. Martin sent this top-quality image from his Spartan camera. I have begun using these cameras exclusively this summer, and am impressed, especially with the Spartan Go Cam (powered by Verizon in my case) which sends images to an app on my phone. Look for these cameras and images on BIG DEER TV. From one of my Spartan cameras in a secret spot, see if you can make out that buck coming in from 12 o'clock. He looks and [...]

21 07, 2017

Summer Whitetail Fun: 10,000 Trail-Cam Pictures, 30 Bucks!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:11-04:00July 21st, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Science|Comments Off on Summer Whitetail Fun: 10,000 Trail-Cam Pictures, 30 Bucks!

I have been swapping emails with one of our bloggers who has a very unique situation going on with his local whitetail herd. So unusual that even super deer biologist Grant Woods is impressed. From our hunter, who has 2 cameras out: I got more than 5,000 pictures in the month of June alone and most of them were bucks. This leads me to believe that our property is the summer home for the majority of the bucks in the area. There are easily over 30 different bucks that I am getting pictures of every day. I only have 2 cameras up, and they are only 250 yards apart. I checked them again recently, and one camera had another 1,066 [...]