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16 01, 2017

Indiana Bow: Bleat Calling Bucks in the Rut

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00January 16th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Indiana Bow: Bleat Calling Bucks in the Rut

I got this email from Kenny from back in 2014: Mike: I watch your TV show all the time and want to thank you for the great information on deer hunting. I watched the recent episode “10 things to know about the whitetail rut” and took your advice. I hunted every day from November 8th to the 11th (Veterans Day); you said in the show that these were the best days of the season. I grunted, rattled and used a bleat can, as you suggested in the show. I called in and shot the biggest deer of my life! Shot him from a ground blind at 28 yards with my Hoyt Faktor. –Thanks again, Kenny Kyte from southern Indiana P.S., [...]

30 12, 2016

BIG DEER TV: Fall 2016 Hunting & Filming Recap

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00December 30th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting, Remington|2 Comments

As 2016 draws to a close, it's a perfect time to recap my fall hunts that will begin airing in July 2017 during season 6 of BIG DEER TV. Thanks to Remington Arms, Trijicon, Wildlife Research Center and Sportsman Channel for their amazing support. And a special and heartfelt thanks to all of you who watch our show and read this blog. I hope you have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2017.--MH In September I traveled to South Carolina and hunted with Will (left) and Ethan for a few days. These kids are bravely battling cancer every day and I hope and pray for them. One evening Ethan shot this buck, and we all gathered round the skinning shed. Lots [...]

12 12, 2016

Nebraska: 4-Year Quest for a Giant Public-Land Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00December 12th, 2016|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|12 Comments

I have been on the road for weeks hunting and filming for the new 2017 season of BIG DEER TV. While I was out, I have received many great hunting stories and pictures from hunters across the country, and I will be posting every one over the next weeks. Send me your buck story and pictures and I'll add it to the lineup. First up, a well-written story from Nicholas that pretty much epitomizes all that is good and real in deer hunting: Mike: My journey for a Nebraska public-land buck started back in 2012 when I was notified I was getting stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, which is located about 15 miles south of Omaha. I am a [...]

7 12, 2016

BIG DEER Blogger Rattles In 194 3/8” Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00December 7th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|15 Comments

Guest post from Big Daddy, who has stuck with me on the blog since I launched in 2008. This is one of the coolest posts I can remember, and one of the most satisfying for me: Mike: Once again early November proved to be a big buck's downfall. I posted on your rattling tips blog the other day about working on this buck with the horns: Big Daddy on November 7, 2016 at 10:59 am said: "I have been hunting hard for one certain buck since October 12th except for a few days I took off to hunt mule deer in Montana the third week of October. I have seen him twice with no shot either time. Today, Nov. [...]

28 11, 2016

Pennsylvania Bowhunter Shoots 8.5-Year-Old Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 28th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Deer Science|4 Comments

The Deer-Forest Study blog, written by biologists and researchers from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, is one of my favorites, and I monitor it weekly. Biologist Jeannine Fleegle posted this one earlier this week: A couple of weeks ago, we got a phone call from a hunter reporting a tagged deer. Nothing out of the ordinary about that this time of year. (Note: The PA researchers tag some wild does and bucks every year and monitor their movements with GPS and the like; the tagged deer are legal game, and hunters who shoot and report them get a reward.) When we looked up the tag, we discovered that this buck (11144) was tagged in 2010 as a yearling, which [...]