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16 02, 2015

Shed Hunting: If You Find A Dead Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 16th, 2015|BigDeer, Predator Hunting, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

Shed hunters across America are starting to roam the woods. In addition to finding antlers, a few of you will find deer that died within the last several months from natural causes or were shot and lost by hunters last season. Ken found this first one in VA the other day. Kelly found this one in South Dakota last month. This last carcass, found by one of the Drury team members, somewhere in the Midwest, is mysterious. They had spotted this buck alive and well on January 9, 2015, but found his remains just weeks later. How had the deer died—natural causes, coyotes, or maybe poached? Deer skulls/racks are sad finds, but they make good shed-hunting trophies if you know [...]

6 02, 2015

Coyote Hunting: Best Guns, Calls, Tips

admin2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 6th, 2015|BigDeer, Predator Hunting|3 Comments

Now is a great time to try and bust a few coyotes on your land before the fawns start dropping in spring. Here's a quick primer: Find a Killer Setup: Look for a ridge top or hillside that overlooks a field, clear-cut, river bottom or other semi-open area. Try to set up and call where you can see well below, out to 100 or 200 yards or more. The farther you can see a coyote coming in, the more time you have to get your rifle up and prepare for the shot. Coyote Sign: Coyote tracks are 2 to 3 inches long, with 4 toes and round pads. An adult critter’s scat is 2 to 5 inches long, round and fat. [...]

4 02, 2015

SD Shed Hunt: What Killed This Buck?

admin2020-06-10T09:19:52-04:00February 4th, 2015|BigDeer, Predator Hunting, Shed Hunting|4 Comments

Got this from our friend and hard-core shed hunter Kelly K. out in South Dakota: Mike: While shed hunting the other day, I picked up this nice 4-point, shot a couple pictures, looked over the fence and saw this! My question is, what kind of animal could kill a buck (scored low 170s) in great shape? I watched this deer 2 weeks ago and he looked just fine to me. He was in a herd of about 192 deer, and surely there were some younger deer that would have been much easier to kill. Notice the deer’s rib bones, which are chewed up to about 4” long in some places. I’ve seen a ton of deer killed by coyotes out [...]

9 05, 2014

Rate Your 2013-14 Deer Season

admin2020-06-10T09:22:50-04:00May 9th, 2014|BigDeer, Deer Management, Deer Science, Hunting News, Predator Hunting|12 Comments

The results of QDMA's unscientific poll reveal about what I expected--that in about half the country, the whitetail herds are trending in a negative way. Based on the number of deer and the number of bucks you saw last season, how would you vote? Leave a reply below so we can see if the BIG DEER numbers jibe with QDMA's. I'll comment first. I vote "blue down" because the 2013-14 season was one of my hardest in the last 15 years. I hunted from Canada to Wisconsin to New York to Nebraska, and it was tough everywhere. I even had to push it on two Texas hunts to shoot bucks. It's not supposed to be hard in Texas, but it was for me. In the end I shot some nice bucks, [...]

3 04, 2014

Canada Lynx: One Cool Cat

admin2020-06-10T09:23:03-04:00April 3rd, 2014|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Predator Hunting|6 Comments

I was reviewing the first edit of my latest Saskatchewan adventure when this cool cat strode across the screen. Man, it brought back memories. How still and cold it was that morning last November (20 below)...the incredible quiet of the spruce woods (no breeze, no birds, just pounding silence)... How the little animal glided across the fresh snow on tiny paws that never seemed to touch the ground. I remember whispering to cameraman Jake, "Bobcat." I forgot where I was for a minute. It turned out to be a lynx, the first I had ever seen in the wild. The cat was a dusky gray, mottled with brown, good camouflage for the deep spruce habitat where it lives. The black-tipped tail and especially the black tufts on the ears were wickedly cool, and [...]