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19 04, 2017

White (Piebald) Deer Sighting

admin2020-06-10T09:16:29-04:00April 19th, 2017|BigDeer, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on White (Piebald) Deer Sighting

Our friend Danny was out turkey hunting yesterday morning (look for his hen decoy low in the frame) and spotted this white deer, beautiful against the sea of green. Looks to be a fair amount of brown on its head, so it’s officially a piebald. “I need to set up my cameras and get some better pictures,” Danny said. “Should be fun watching it all summer.” Biologists say that less than 1% of all whitetails born will exhibit piebald traits. It sure will be fun to chronicle this rare white deer here on BIG DEER blog!

18 04, 2017

How Deer Antlers Grow

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00April 18th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Science|Comments Off on How Deer Antlers Grow

In April, as the days continue to get longer and daylight increases, new antlers begin to grow from buds that form on the pedicels on a buck’s head. Typically within a month, main beams and brow tines begin to sprout and split off. A month or so later, in early June, second and third tines will form. Throughout early summer, the fledgling racks grow fast and furious. Antler tissue is the fastest growing tissue known to man. Beams and tines may grow a quarter-inch or more per day, the process driven by a buck’s hormones and the photoperiod of the days. According to Missouri scientist Dr. Grant Woods, a buck’s rack will show most of its points by mid-June, though [...]

14 04, 2017

Indiana: Teens Arrested For Setting Deer On Fire

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00April 14th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|4 Comments

From indystar.com: Fulton County officials have arrested one person and are looking for another in connection with the death of a deer that was found burning alive on the side of the road last month. Christopher Hodges, 18, of Mentone, was served with an arrest warrant Wednesday and faces one felony count of torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal…. An arrest warrant also has been issued for Mark Shepard, 20, also of Mentone, on the same charge. I thought I had heard it all, but… Investigators say Hodges and Shepard were driving along in a 1994 Camaro when they struck the deer. They allegedly turned around, went back to the still-alive deer, poured gas on the animal and set it on fire. [...]

12 04, 2017

Tennessee: Tucker Buck #1 Non-Typical Whitetail Ever!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00April 12th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

The Boone and Crockett Club recently confirmed that a buck shot in Tennessee in 2016 is the highest-scoring non-typical whitetail ever shot by a person. Hunting with a muzzleloader on November 7, 2016, farmer Stephen Tucker shot the massive deer in Sumner County (full story click here). Its official entry score into the Boone and Crockett records is an astounding 312 0/8. Justin Spring of Boone and Crockett said, "What makes this particular deer special is an entry score of 312 0/8 on only a 149 1/8-inch typical frame, which includes a modest inside spread of 14 1/8 inches. That's 162 7/8 inches of abnormal points." The Tucker Buck had 22 scorable points on the left side and 25 on [...]

10 04, 2017

Do Deer Migrate? How Far?

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00April 10th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|2 Comments

No, in Midwestern, Southern and Eastern states, the whitetail deer that most of us hunt do not migrate. In fact they are homebodies, typically living their entire lives in a home range of a mile or so, with buck core areas smaller than that. But yes, in Western states some herds of both whitetails and mule do deer migrate. Based on 40 years of radio-tracking data, Montana biologists have documented that whitetails in the western mountains migrate to dense forests during the winter months. Herds move an average of 8 to 15 miles, going down in elevation as far as needed in search of conifer needles to eat, overhead tree canopy to block the snow and thermal protection created by [...]