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15 11, 2016

Missouri: 6½-Year-Old Ghost Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 15th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|2 Comments

This is a great guest post from our friend Zach Fleer out in Missouri: Mike: Finally caught up to this 6 ½-year-old buck this weekend. I have four years of trail camera history with this buck, and this marks the first time I ever laid eyes on him. He would spend his summers on one end of our farm, and disappear the first week of September. Each of the last few seasons, I would assume he was dead, and then he would show back up in May. He wasn’t really on my radar much during the last few hunting seasons because of this, and because I was chasing the giant freak the last couple years. I shot him on the [...]

14 11, 2016

November 2016 Supermoon Rut Tactics

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 14th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Management|1 Comment

The full moon now is not only the closest and brightest “supermoon” of 2016, but it’s also the largest since 1948. Check it out tonight because a full moon won't come this close to Earth again until Nov. 25, 2034. I don’t know if the closeness and brightness of this moon will make the whitetails rut any harder than normal, but I do believe this full-moon rut week will be a good time to kill a big deer. If you have read my blogs and watched my BIG DEER TV show, you know I’ve been working on a new theory: that mature bucks move great during the day in and around any full moon in early to mid-November. This flies [...]

11 11, 2016

Virginia Bowhunter Shoots 21-Point Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 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 [...]

9 11, 2016

Killer Rut Tactics for November 9-15

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 9th, 2016|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|1 Comment

These are the last days of pre-breeding and into the breeding stage. You’re apt to see a buck prowling with his nose to the ground (with or without a doe in sight), chasing a gal flat-out, standing over a doe and guarding her, or even mounting one. Studies show that most mature does come into heat around November 7 or 8, and 80 percent of them will be bred over the next two weeks. If you suddenly stop seeing bucks on the move, the “lockdown” has begun; mature 8- and 10-pointers have moved receptive does away from competing lesser bucks and carted them off to thickets where they’ll shack up for a couple of days. This might occur later in [...]

3 11, 2016

Going Ground For A Good Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:16:32-04:00November 3rd, 2016|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting|3 Comments

Mike, I went hunting yesterday for the first time since 10/1/15. (Click and read The Fall: Must-Read for Tree Stand Hunters). Man did it ever feel good to be back out there! I promised my wife I'd never climb another tree without 100% safety measures put in place. I'm determined to shoot a good buck from a ground blind, or just hunting from the ground, this year. Here is a good buck we got a shot of a week ago. Good luck out there to you and all the bloggers.—Dean Weimer Good luck Dean, rooting for you man! And everybody wear your harness and be careful out there.