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17 02, 2017

Virginia 2016: Wayne Mills Bow Buck Nets 172 6/8

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Excerpt of the story Wayne Mills, who lives and hunts in north-central Virginia, told me one day last fall, read the whole post here: On Friday, October 21st we had a cold front moving in and forecast for winds to swing from the SW to the N after the front came through. I got in the stand about 2:00 p.m. and waited for the shift in the wind. By 3:30 the wind had started blowing from the north. At 5:15 the birds alerted me, and I looked toward the ruckus to see a deer moving through the brush about 40 yards away, coming out of the bedding area. I saw a rack… It looked unusual. I saw that it had good mass and spread [...]

16 02, 2017

Oklahoma 2016 Deer Season: Top Big Deer Year!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 16th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Guns & Loads, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Oklahoma 2016 Deer Season: Top Big Deer Year!

One day last August I blogged: From what I’m seeing and hearing this has the potential to be the best buck season across America since 2010. It was, and here is a good example. From Paul’s Valley Democrat: Oklahoma’s 2016 deer season is well on its way to revamping the record books. Alan Peoples, chief of wildlife with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said: “I have the privilege of seeing a bunch of big deer racks pass through my office every year and I’ve never seen this many at one time.” Several monstrous non-typicals from the bow season have been reported so far, including Travis Ocker’s 245 2/8” beast from Comanche County (photo top). More racks scoring from 180 [...]

10 02, 2017

Top 5 Deer Hunting States

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 10th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|4 Comments

Number of antlered bucks (1.5 years and older) harvested in the 2015 season: Texas 290,590 Michigan 191,608 Wisconsin 152,701 Georgia 142,346 Pennsylvania 137,580 Number of does harvested in 2015: Texas 157,247 Georgia 220,503 Pennsylvania 178,233 Alabama 171,123 Wisconsin 159,034 Source: QDMA Whitetail Report 2017

8 02, 2017

Whitetail How-To: Hunt a Buck Rub

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 8th, 2017|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

Mature bucks feeling the rut not only thrash trees with their antlers in November, they also see and veer over to smell, lick and rack other rubs that rival males have made. In Iowa one November day, Brian LaRue looked up and saw a monster coming. Sixty yards out the 22-pointer stopped and mauled a sapling, then looked toward Brian’s tree and lugged on in. The hunter drilled the 222-inch non-typical with an arrow. “I’m convinced he saw the big rub on the other side of my stand and was making a straight line for it,” Brian says. That’s the rub behind Brian and his beast in the picture above. My buddy Luke Strommen read that post and got to [...]

6 02, 2017

Where to Hunt Shed Whitetail Antlers

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 6th, 2017|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on Where to Hunt Shed Whitetail Antlers

Pick up a deer trail and follow it for a half-mile or more, until you come to a thick and obvious bedding area. In late winter that might be a brushy southern exposure that gets midday sunlight, or the east side of a grassy ridge or swamp where deer hunker out of a northwest wind. Last hunting season if you were smart, you would have stopped, tested the wind and worked the outer fringes of such a sanctuary so as not to spook deer. But now, plow right in. Montana artist and shed-hunting fanatic Dick Idol told me one time that he finds 60 percent of his sheds in and around thick covers where mature bucks hide in late winter. [...]