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11 04, 2013

36 Bucks Dead from EHD

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 11th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Science, Shed Hunting|114 Comments

From my friend Mark Drury: Bitter sweet shed hunt (the other) weekend…we found some awesome Dream Sheds but EHD took some 36 bucks off of the (property). Here are just a few of them. 2012 will go down as one of the worst years for hemorrhagic disease (mostly strains of a virus known as epizootic hemorrhagic disease or EHD, but which also includes the closely related blue tongue virus). Have you found any dead bucks while you’re out knocking around the woods, looking for sheds or turkeys?

8 04, 2013

Virginia: Sussex County Palmated Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00April 8th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|3 Comments

I saw this amazing buck on the Virginia Whitetails Facebook page. It was shot near Grizzard (love that name) in Sussex Co., down in the Tidewater of southeastern VA, a few hours from where I live. I have posted a few palmated bucks over the years, but this giant takes the cake, just awesome--plus, the fact that it’s a homegrown Old Dominion buck makes it all the sweeter. Almost unbelievably, a week later on that same Facebook page this picture popped up: Slade Jones had found a couple of sheds, including one that surely came off the palmated giant a couple of years ago. Either that or there are multiple palmated bucks running around the swamps of Sussex Co.! I [...]

28 03, 2013

Michigan Albino Deer

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 28th, 2013|BigDeer, Deer Science|1 Comment

This photo was taken last week near Iron River. I don’t know what’s cooler, the white deer or the VW bus. Wonder what year that thing is?

27 03, 2013

The X-Ray Buck (aka Arrowhead Buck)

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 27th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Science|1 Comment

This is the week of bucks with holes in their heads. A few years ago in Maryland Jonathan Leith dropped this 8-pointer. The 2 1/2-year-old buck wasn't big enough for a shoulder mount, so he decided to saw the skull into a European mount. Look what he found! Sunk just below the right eye socket and into the honey-combed nasal sinus area was a piece of an XX75 aluminum arrow with a 3-blade broadhead. I figure that arrow was fired into buck sometime the year before because Jon told a newspaper guy: “There was no physical evidence that the deer had an arrow in it. The skin wasn’t broken, there was no pus pocket. The eye appeared to be normal.” [...]

26 03, 2013

Hole-in-the-Skull Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 26th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|Comments Off on Hole-in-the-Skull Buck

From Matthew in Kansas, who sends us lots of cool stuff (thanks man!): Three years ago I found the left shed of a buck I called “10-10.” The shed had a pretty good chunk of skull plate attached to the back edge. Fast forward to last season. I shot the buck with a rifle and took him to (a guy) to cape him for me. As he was caping, his knife poked into the skull behind the left beam. Once we cut the skull cap off the head, there was a mass of soft connective tissue and puss in the brain cavity . There was some puss on the outside of the skull too. Once the mass was removed, [...]