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8 03, 2017

South Dakota Shed Hunter Up to 70 Antlers and Counting

admin2020-06-10T09:16:30-04:00March 8th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on South Dakota Shed Hunter Up to 70 Antlers and Counting

Update from our expert, Kelly “Shedhunter” Kirsch: Mike: Walked 17.8 miles on Saturday, it was very warm, and picked up 15. One real nice set, maybe in the 160s. I found the antlers about ¾-mile apart. Sunday I hurt, so I used the Quad to cover a sunflower field and picked 12 more. Total for the year is right on 70 sheds, not a bad start. Take a look at that sunflower field. A lot of people I run into that think that antlers have to be knocked off by tree, fence post, or something. But there’s really nothing like that out here in places. Sometimes the antlers just fall off, and I have watched bucks hit the ground with [...]

14 02, 2017

Shed Hunting: 5 Matched Sets!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 14th, 2017|Big Deer Stories, Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on Shed Hunting: 5 Matched Sets!

Our friend Kelly “Sheddhunter” Kirsch from South Dakota filed this report from the antler fields: First hard day of walking two weeks ago, and looks like people are beating me at what I do so well. There were boot prints in most all the places I walked. I did manage to find a few sheds they left behind. The land these people are walking is all public, so I’ve tied up some adjacent lands where they ought to push the deer to. Hope it works out. This past weekend I walked 17 miles and found 5 matched sets (picture above). Walked another 8 miles the next day and only found 5 antlers. Funny how in some areas the bucks have [...]

13 02, 2017

Illinois Coyote Hunt: 5 Critters and a Shed

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 13th, 2017|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Guns & Loads, Predator Hunting, Shed Hunting|5 Comments

Longtime BIG DEER blogger Scott from MI and his buddies made their annual trek to coyote camp, and he recaps their awesome hunt: Hi Mike: We headed out about 9:30 am Thursday morning Jan. 26th from Michigan and made the 6-hour trip to northwest Illinois, to a place along the Mississippi River. The normal gang was along for the hunt, good friends John, Ryan, Mike and Jason. My dad Russ did not make the trip this year but I told him I would keep him posted with the play by play if we got some action. The weather was pretty good, mid-teens at night and mid-20s during the day. Winds were a little stronger than we would have liked, about [...]

6 02, 2017

Where to Hunt Shed Whitetail Antlers

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 6th, 2017|BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|Comments Off on Where to Hunt Shed Whitetail Antlers

Pick up a deer trail and follow it for a half-mile or more, until you come to a thick and obvious bedding area. In late winter that might be a brushy southern exposure that gets midday sunlight, or the east side of a grassy ridge or swamp where deer hunker out of a northwest wind. Last hunting season if you were smart, you would have stopped, tested the wind and worked the outer fringes of such a sanctuary so as not to spook deer. But now, plow right in. Montana artist and shed-hunting fanatic Dick Idol told me one time that he finds 60 percent of his sheds in and around thick covers where mature bucks hide in late winter. [...]

3 02, 2017

Saskatchewan Whitetail: Massive Shed Leads to Massive Buck!

admin2020-06-10T09:16:31-04:00February 3rd, 2017|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

Last March Quinten Saunders of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, found this incredible antler and knew he had a special deer to hunt in the fall. Some 8 months later Quinten, who bills himself as an “extreme outdoorsman and hunting guide,” shot the beast. Posting on Instagram he said: Well on Nov. 22 the chase for this mass monster came to an end…look for me and the story of this true Saskatchewan whitetail in Big Game Illustrated and the Big Buck magazines. Just so you know both those Canadian publications are very popular with deer hunters north of the border. Hard to tell what a rack like that will score, but who cares! The overall mass measurements will be off the charts, [...]