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26 03, 2018

Why Are Fewer People Hunting in 2018?

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00March 26th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|2 Comments

A survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reveals that only 5% of Americans age 16 and up hunt. That's half of what it was 50 years ago. The number of licensed hunters, most of them deer hunters, dropped from 14.2 million in 1991 to 11.5 million in 2016. Most disturbing, the decline is expected to accelerate over the next decades. Why fewer of us? I have my suspicions and government agencies and wildlife organizations have their theories, but I wanted information from real-life hard-core hunters, so I did a little Twitter/social survey. It’s far from scientific, but pretty darn representative I believe. Loss of Access By far the number one reason fewer people are hunting, especially east of [...]

22 03, 2018

Pennsylvania Bill: Increase Penalties for Trail-Camera Thieves

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00March 22nd, 2018|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|1 Comment

Lancaster Online reports that State Representative Neal Goodman (D-Schuylkill County) recently introduced House Bill 484, which would increase penalties for any low-life who would steal another hunter’s trail camera. Under the proposed bill the theft of a cam would be added as a specific crime within Pennsylvania’s Game and Wildlife Code. Moving trail cameras to the wildlife code would allow a hunter to report the theft of one to state a wildlife conservation officer, who could then investigate the crime. Currently, the theft of a cam in Pennsylvania (and most other states I assume) must be reported to local or state law enforcement, who as Lancaster Online rightly points out “certainly have lots of more pressing issues to deal with.” [...]

19 03, 2018

Is This Lion Zebra Fight Best Taxidermy Ever?

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00March 19th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Is This Lion Zebra Fight Best Taxidermy Ever?

I was looking back through my archives and found this photo, which was sent to be by a reader one time: Mike, I don't know anything else about this other than it is cool as hell! The message with the picture read: From the World Taxidermy Championship. Notice how carefully this was put together...look at each angle and consider, there are no ropes or lines holding any of this up. The lion is held up by its tail, where it contacts the zebra leg, and the entire mount is supported by the zebra’s back leg. Pretty amazing. Yes, cool as hell. Might be the best taxidermy work I’ve ever seen.

16 03, 2018

4 Most Popular Hunting Cartridges

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00March 16th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting|5 Comments

Boone and Crockett did a survey one time. They compiled a list of cartridges that hunters used to kill North American big game and big bucks that ultimately made their record book. Not surprisingly, here are the top 4 rounds: --.300 magnum (used by 18 percent of the hunters in the survey): This includes the .300 Win. Mag and .300 Rem. Ultra Mag. A lot of the animals killed in this survey were big and tough, like bears and elk. But quite a few record-size mule deer and whitetails were felled with the flat-shooting .300 too. Never a bad choice, IF you can handle some recoil. --.270 (12 percent): The .270 is still one of the kings and always will [...]

15 03, 2018

278-Inch Wild Buck Poached In Texas

admin2020-06-10T09:15:54-04:00March 15th, 2018|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

The second largest whitetail buck ever shot in Texas was poached. Texas Parks & Wildlife reports that a Denton County man pleaded no contest to illegally taking the deer, which scored 278 Boone & Crockett points, last October near Pilot Point, Texas. Travis D. Johnson was sentenced to two years of probation and 40 hours community service, plus court costs. He also faces in excess of $53,000 in restitution fines from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and is prohibited from purchasing a hunting license for the duration of his deferred adjudication period. Almost immediately after news of the huge buck broke on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, Texas game wardens became aware of rumors alleging Johnson may have harvested the [...]