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Iowa Bowhunter Arrows Old, Heavy-Beamed Monarch

November 9, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Ronald Even tagged the buck of a lifetime this season — a 6 ½-year-old monarch he had one trail camera photo of this fall. He had passed the deer during previous years, but it turned into quite the buck this season. Even had already taken 140- and 157-inch bucks off...

Does a Snorting Deer Mean Your Hunt’s Over?

November 9, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Black, beady eyes bore straight through your skull. Head bobs, foot stomps, and echoing snorts tell you exactly what she thinks, and it isn’t good. She completely disapproves of the situation, and every deer in the valley is going to hear about it. But does it matter? When a deer...

Serious Sleeper States with Big Whitetails

November 8, 2022   |  From Articles

Nonresident deer hunters are like the Mongolian horde — where one goes, all go, and carnage follows. Throughout the decades, it’s led to some states getting pounded with hunting pressure. Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin are some legacy states, to name a few. Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio were once...

Oklahoma Hunter Shoots 7-Year-Old, 14-Point Buck

November 8, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

All Things Hunting’s Cole Barthel loves chasing big whitetails. This season, he tagged a great Oklahoma buck that stretched the tape. The 7 ½-year-old deer was a regular on the property he hunts, and the final chapter was written with great friends present for the hunt. Barthel first started seeing...

Big Public Bucks in Nasty Places

November 7, 2022   |  From Articles

Whenever I hunt, scout or look for shed antlers on public lands, I’m always amazed by how so many humans think alike. I can’t count how many times I’ve found boot tracks where I planned to hike or a treestand hung where I’d planned to hang one myself. Most hunters...

3 Simple but Deadly Rut Stands

November 4, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

We make hunting the rut way too complicated, so let’s simplify things. In states above the 35th parallel with a November rut, the key to killing a big deer is to hang a few treestands (or build a few ground posts) in areas where a big deer is likely to...

Why You Shouldn’t Shoot 3 ½-Year-Old Bucks

November 3, 2022   |  From Articles

We always emphasize the importance of providing optimum nutrition so deer can reach their genetic potential, but there is also another side to deer management. What you shoot and what you pass up has a big effect on future hunting, and once you start experimenting in this regard, you will...

The Mentality of Big-Buck Killers

November 3, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

You know them — those hunters who kill one or multiple monster bucks each year. It makes you wonder. How do they do it? What are they doing differently? Lots of factors culminate into consistent success on mature whitetails. Still, it’s obvious that big-buck killers have a different mentality than...

8 Big-Buck Brawls You Must See

November 2, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Buck fights are some of the most interesting scenes hunters can experience in the wild. Seeing two big deer brawl for dominance is something to behold. Generally, these encounters are brief or not very visible. But sometimes, things get interesting. These eight buck fights are prime examples. Check out these...

States Issue Health Advisories Against Eating Deer and Other Wildlife Due to Toxic Chemicals

October 31, 2022   |  The Realblog with Stephanie Mallory

U.S. wildlife agencies are finding elevated levels of toxic chemicals in game animals, such as deer, and are issuing health advisories against eating wild game in certain regions of the country. According to claimsjournal.com , high levels of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), also known as “forever chemicals,” have been...

3 Off-the-Wall Whitetail Tactics

October 27, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Out on the Milk River in eastern Montana, Eliot Strommen glasses for a buck crossing an alfalfa field, swaggering alone nose down or trailing a doe. He watches where the deer enters the timber, then eases downwind into position. The longbow hunter stands behind a tree, picks up a stick...

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Game Camera Captures Single Coyote Killing Large Buck

October 26, 2022   |  From Galleries

Alabama bowhunter John Hurt had big plans for Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. He was going to go after a "really nice, tall-racked buck" that he'd been watching on his game camera for several weeks. Hurt had been running game cameras in the same general area of the Tuscaloosa County hunting...

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