IA Hunt Report – Big Buck Down!!!

Hola from southern Iowa…This was one hunt I was really looking forward to. I drew an Iowa first shotgun/muzzleloader season tag this year, and I was going to hunt with one of the deer hunters I respect most in the world, Bill Winke.
Now Bill doesn’t do anything but hunt with his Hoyt bow anymore, but he [...]

Is the Midwest Rut over???

I would like to know your thoughts. Since a few days before Thanksgiving, I have been getting reports from all over the Midwest that buck activity has really tapered off and in some cases become virtually nonexistant.
Here in central KY, our rifle season ended Sunday the 29th. We had an extremely warm season, and most [...]

BIG OKLAHOMA BUCK DOWN – FINALLY

I have been having a nightmare of a November. I have been sick with Swine Flu, hunted hard in Nebraska, and then hunted for almost a week in Kentucky, and did not score. That is whitetail hunting, right? It is the great equalizer. You can do it all right for a week or two when [...]

LONG OVER DUE REPORT – NE, SASK, KS, TX

Sorry it has been so long since I checked in…I got back from Sask, and my wife and I got SWINE FLU!!! It was bad. Then I went to Nebraska for a 6 day bow hunt, but I was still sick with terrible viral bronchitis. The temps started out as record highs (82 degrees in [...]

Son Scores on Nice KY Buck with Crossbow!!!

My twin boys’ birthday is Oct 17…On the 16th, I took my son Drew out to a local farm the Steve Hartley Outdoors (www.stevehartleyoutdoors.com ) operates on to try his hand at crossbow hunting for whitetail. Steve had been seeing some quality bucks there. We hunted from a ground blind at the edge of a field, and the [...]

A Couple Great Bucks from SD

My buddies Greg and Jeff Miller killed these 2 bucks in SD on the morning of Sept 28. Jeff’s big mulie goes 204, and Greg’s whitetail was a nice 5 1/2 year old. The caught both bucks on video for In Pursuit TV and Greg told me the footage was great. Just thought I would [...]

Take a Kid Hunting

I took my 6 year old son Jared hunting last night and we had a great time.  He harvested his first deer and was more excited than I can put into words (so was I!). We hunted from a Double Bull blind (www.primos.com) a soybean field just outside a woods.  He used an Excalibur crossbow (www.excaliburcrossbow.com) tipped with [...]

BIG KENTUCKY DEER YOU CAN HUNT THIS FALL

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Mineral Lick Still Attracting Big Bucks

I pulled my SD card from my Moultrie Game Spy 4.0 IR camera on Sunday afternoon. It had another 1,300+ pictures and still had 39% battery life left. Wow, now that’s an efficient camera. I replaced the batteries anyway so I’ve got plenty of juice now that season is about 6 weeks away. Trail [...]

Trail Camera Pictures from New York

Here are some great bucks from a hunter in the state of New York.  Looks like they’re pounding that foodplot. Who says the northeast doesn’t have some great deer? Thanks for sending in the pictures.

Giant Ohio Bucks Caught on Cuddeback Trail Camera

You have got to check out the pictures from this hunter’s Cuddeback (cuddeback.com) trail camera of these two giant bucks! What great close up pictures. Double click on the images to enlarge and look at the excellent detail. The first buck is an absolute monster buck of a lifetime with double drop tines, mass and [...]

Trail Camera Pictures, Mineral Licks and Big Bucks

Lots of whitetail fanatics like me want to actually see the bucks that live where they hunt during the summer to get an idea of whats out there. Here’s a simple, effective and economical way to accomplish that summer time scouting and potentially help the bucks grow bigger racks at the same time. I used [...]

Illinois 2008 Deer Hunting Outlook.

For those of you who might be planning on taking a deer hunting trip to Illinois this year may find this information helpful.
The figures below are based on 2007 either-sex permits issued for firearm and archery hunting seasons. Totals include landowner permits, archery, youth (firearm), regular firearm, and muzzleloader seasons.
1) Number of Deer Hunters in [...]

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