15 01, 2024

Buck w/White-tipped Nose: Rarest Deer In America?

2024-01-15T15:15:51-05:00January 15th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|0 Comments

Hi Mike: I recently shot this deer in Massachusetts. I’ve never seen or heard of a deer with a nose like this. Any idea what would cause this or how common it is? The deer didn’t have any other noticeable anomalies. The nose seemed to be completely normal except for the color. Was not swollen. Thanks, Karl O. Karl, thanks for sending this. In my 40 years of studying, observing and writing about whitetails, I have never seen or heard of a deer with a solid white-tipped nose. I scoured the Internet for info and pictures, but found nothing. I ran Karl’s pictures by a couple of America’s top deer biologists, men who have observed literally tens of thousands of [...]

11 01, 2024

Choose the Best Hunting Knife

2024-01-10T09:20:16-05:00January 11th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Gear Reviews, whitetail deer|0 Comments

The experts at Buck Knives offer these tips on selecting the best blade for hunting. Will the knife be used or field-dressing and skinning deer, or to clean and skin small game like rabbits and squirrels? Pick the right knife for the job. For gutting and skinning deer, you could choose a knife like the Buck Ranger Skinner, which has a large, curved-belly style. A thinner clip point design would be better suited to dressing small critters. Materials matter--quality steel and handle components ensure a knife can be easily sharpened and held and controlled as you work. A rubber handle, like found on Buck Vanguard, ensures a tight, safe fit all the time and especially in wet conditions. For deer [...]

21 12, 2023

4 Best Tactics for Late-Season Deer

2023-12-11T09:27:29-05:00December 21st, 2023|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, whitetail deer|0 Comments

If you’re still hunting and trying to fill a buck tag, remember: Afternoon hunts are best in late season. Deer move from their beds to a cornfield or beans or a thicket or a weedy pasture or a bait pile--anywhere they can find last scraps of food. When you hunt a food source, the wind can’t blow back toward a bedding cover or a travel lane out, and it can’t swirl out into a field where the does will pop out first. Set up downwind of a trail or funnel where your scent will blow back into a dead zone in the timber where no deer will hopefully come out. If just one doe winds you and starts blowing, you [...]

18 12, 2023

Is It Okay to Hunt Deer Near a Property Line?

2023-11-26T17:10:11-05:00December 18th, 2023|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting|Comments Off on Is It Okay to Hunt Deer Near a Property Line?

Legally speaking, you hang one, 5 or 20 tree stands near the line that separates your hunting property from a neighbor’s. You can walk around or drive a UTV on your side of the line as much as yu want to. Heck, can pop up a tent and make deer camp as long as you stay on your side of the fence. Property law is simple: You stay on your side of the line, and I’ll stay on mine. But step a boot across the boundary line without permission, and that’s obviously trespassing. Twitter Poll I always assumed every hunter dislikes or downright despises a   fence-sitter, or a hunter who posts too close to a property line. But every hunter’s [...]

14 12, 2023

Texas Panhandle Non-Typical Buck

2023-12-11T09:14:52-05:00December 14th, 2023|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Deer Science, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Texas Panhandle Non-Typical Buck

I shot this super-cool buck in North Texas, Wheeler County, a few days ago. Two biologists confirmed what I thought: that the non-typical left side of the rack was almost certainly caused by an injury to the buck’s body during the 2023 spring/summer antler-growing season. Most likely the buck injured one of his right legs. In what scientists call the “contralateral effect,” an injury to one side of the body often causes an antler deformity on the opposite side of the rack. Penn State biologists say the reasons for this are unknown. Exactly how the opposite-side antler will be altered from its original size or shape is anyone’s guess. In any event, I am extremely happy with this mature, funky [...]

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