7 12, 2016

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

2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00December 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

2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 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 [...]

21 11, 2016

Iowa Giant Buck

2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 21st, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Iowa Giant Buck

From Stevan Louch, thanks for sharing: My brother David killed this buck November 7 in Oscalossa. It's a main-frame 8-point. Biggest antlers I've ever held. I don't know what the record is for an 8-point; let me know what you think and if there's a possible record here. He shot it with a Bowtech and Grim Reaper broadhead. This is obviously a huge and beautiful buck, and to me the kickers and stickers give it more character. But my research of the 5 top 8-point bucks in the world shows that all of them, scoring 180 to 183 net B&C, have amazingly typical antlers with fewer deductions than David’s awesome buck. But the Louch Buck has a frame and beams [...]

11 11, 2016

Virginia Bowhunter Shoots 21-Point Buck

2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 11th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Virginia Bowhunter Shoots 21-Point Buck

Today’s guest blog from Virginia hunter Wayne Mills: I was given permission on a new place and began scouting it in early October. The set up was classic. There is a really good bedding area in a deep ravine, briars, honeysuckle and cedar trees with a small stream running through it.  There are pasture fields on both sides of this bedding area, which is about 100-200 yards wide and 300-400 yards long. Downhill from the bedding area there is a strip of hardwoods 60-80 yards wide, running perpendicular to the ravine with another pasture beyond. When I scouted it I noticed white oaks and several persimmon trees loaded with fruit.  The oaks were heavy with acorns.  I set my stand [...]

24 10, 2016

Virginia: 21-Point Cold-Front Giant!

2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00October 24th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

I posted Friday that with the weekend beginning on October 21, the best hunting of the year was about to heat up: Historical “rut curves” assembled by biologists over decades show that bucks really begin to rev up their scraping around October 20…the data show that 5 to 7 percent of a herd’s does are bred by bucks around October 21… With the cooler weather…that will occur in the Eastern U.S. (last) weekend, I predict the buck movement and hunting will get better… after (last) week of 80-plus Indian Summer days here in Virginia, a cold front will blow through later this afternoon, and the low tomorrow morning will be 44. …the next couple of days should be good. Virginia [...]

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