4 11, 2024

6 Great Stands for the Whitetail Rut

2024-11-01T10:08:46-04:00November 4th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on 6 Great Stands for the Whitetail Rut

I’ve keyed these 6 setups to the 3 different stages of the rut you’ll be hunting this fall.  Whether the big bucks are feeding, rubbing, scraping or chasing the does, we’ll put you in the hot seat. All that’s left is making the shot, and that is up to you. PRE-RUT: The River Strip One September morning my buddy Dan Jones climbed into a tree stand he’d set 50 yards off a river in northern Montana. The south wind was perfect, blowing out of an alfalfa field 100 yards to the south, wafting through the narrow timber strip and pushing his scent across the deep river where no deer would approach. Around 7:30 Dan saw movement on a trail 150 [...]

21 10, 2024

Stand Sites for Farm-Country Bucks

2024-10-21T09:19:22-04:00October 21st, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on Stand Sites for Farm-Country Bucks

Hang a tree stand on the closest elevated hardwood ridge near a corn or bean field. Most of the deer that come and go to the feed will cut across that ridge somewhere, often in or on the edge of thick green cover. I've seen it happen dozens of times each season. Set up downwind of the heaviest doe trail you can find, with rubs and scrapes nearby. Good for either morning or afternoon. Rutting bucks love to troll across an old pasture or weed field that connects crops and a woodlot. It’s a natural pinch point. Set a tree stand just back in the woods where the buck will stage and look for does, and move back to bed [...]

14 10, 2024

Hornady CX Copper Bullet for California Hunting

2024-10-16T11:24:43-04:00October 14th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Deer Hunting, Hornady, sportsman channel|Comments Off on Hornady CX Copper Bullet for California Hunting

Years ago, fearing that lead in the environment was leading to the demise of the California Condor and other birds and wildlife, California began a slow move to ban all lead ammunition in the state. Then in October 2013, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that instructed the California Game Commission to phase in the ban on all lead ammunition no later than July 1, 2019. Today, non-lead bullets and shot are required when hunting any wildlife anywhere in California. I was in the beautiful Central Coast wine country of Cali last week, hunting for blacktail deer. I chose Hornady’s Outfitter load with the 130-grain CX copper alloy bullet. My rifle and load shot great at the range—1.5 inches high at [...]

1 10, 2024

3 Tree-Stand Mistakes to Fix This Season

2024-10-01T08:57:27-04:00October 1st, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, sportsman channel, whitetail deer|Comments Off on 3 Tree-Stand Mistakes to Fix This Season

#1Your Approach Sucks You haphazardly lug a tree stand and steps on the way in to a stand site, heavy metal clanking every step of the way. You lumber along and crack sticks. You bull through a patch of cover and jump as a deer boils out of there and runs off. Even a moderate amount of human intrusion can and will cause a mature buck to change his pattern. By the time you finally hang your set and start hunting, a big deer might have moved over to the next ridge to travel or bed. The Fix: Batten down a stand, steps, tools and all your gear in a tight backpack so you don’t make a clink on the [...]

26 09, 2024

Arkansas’ “Velvet Buck” Season Big Success

2024-09-26T11:47:22-04:00September 26th, 2024|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting News, sportsman channel|1 Comment

Arkansas bowhunters harvested 1,231 deer during the state’s first statewide early buck hunt earlier this month. The jump-start to deer season was added during the biannual regulations-setting process this spring to offer hunters the opportunity to pursue a buck still “in velvet.” Ralph Meeker, deer program coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said the hunt’s harvest was within the range expected by biologists. “When we look at historical harvest for the first three days of archery season, hunters typically check between 2,000 and 4,000 deer, depending on the weather,” Meeker said. “But a lot of those deer are does, so when you look at only the buck component of that harvest, it’s around 800 to 1,500 antlered deer.” Meeker [...]

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