Memorial Day was between the last DeerBlaster and this one, so just want to say that all those who serve and have served in our Armed Forces (and their families) are highly appreciated and loved, especially those who have died for us and for the freedoms so many of us want to see protected at this point in our history. THANK YOU and love from the DB staff! 🇺🇸 🙏 ✝️
Thx for reading! If you’re getting the DeerBlaster for the first time it’s probably because a deer-crazed bud signed you up!
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Amazing AR traditional bow trophy!
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> Johnathan Moreland’s 15-point AR buck. Last year Johnathan had a truly special buck show up on his cameras on the 1st day of bow season, a 180″+ monster! He spent a month chasing this buck on his off days, and had 6 encounters with him before eventually killing him. [With a recurve!]
Mad props for guys who git ‘er done with the old fashioned stick and string!
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Two MASSIVE northern IL heads!
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Can’t stop lookin’ at these two fine lookin’ northern IL heads proudly shown off by John K., a dedicated DeerBlaster reader. His dad sent us an email recently:
> Pictured is my son John…he is a dedicated outdoorsman at the age of 9. Enclosed is a head we found while shed-hunting and one we harvested.
> He didn’t think he’d be featured so I told him we would send these in and see what happens.
Heck yeah you’re featured John! Keep on chasing those forest antelope buddy, and great job dad! 👊
Love hearing from folks, let us know what you got!
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The world’s first trailcam was actually a “trail timer.”
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Doesn’t the trailcam seem like a head-slapper invention now? I mean, who WOULDN’T come up with that deal right? Well, what if it was the early ’80s?? Waaaaaay before cell phones and digital cameras so:
> “In the summer of 1984 I went down to the hardware store and bought a digital clock, then took it apart. I saw how the circuit board worked and realized that by reworking it I could show when a deer walked by.”
> The resulting device was…crude: a string linking the digital clock’s simple circuit to a tree on the far side of a deer trail. The string was stretched over the trail at a height of 12-18″. When something tall enough to contact it moved down the trail, it pulled the string loose from the clock, disrupting the electrical circuit and causing it to freeze on that time.
> The battery-powered clock indicated not only day of the week but also am vs pm, so Dean could later check the setup and see down to the minute when something had moved through. He’d then reset the string to capture the next such “event.”
> …building a single device for your personal use is one thing – turning that into a viable consumer product is quite another. Dean decided to take the next step: traveling to Atlanta with his Trail Timer, so he could show it off at the 1985 Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show.
> “I got a phone call, and it was the first order from Bass Pro Shops for 8,000 Trail Timers.” Semi-panic set in as he scurried to get that many built and out the door. But that order helped to jump-start the company and its revolutionary way of patterning deer and other wildlife.
> It wasn’t long before he came up with a multi-event timer that relied on an infrared sensor to trigger its internal clock. It could record up to 5 “events” before requiring a reset.
> With infrared sensors becoming more available and affordable, Dean then took the next step: building a system that incorporated a hunter’s own film-fed camera. Then, Dean came up with the Photo Hunter, which included a Samsung film camera.
Dean had a successful company for 23 years and sold it in 2008. Amazing story. You know he had it bad if he was takin’ apart digital clocks for deer-hunting! 😂 Love it!
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Ever seen a dead bald eagle gripping a fawn head?
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> “I was easing along, looking for turkeys, and happened to glance out into a cut cornfield and spotted something white. I couldn’t figure what it was, so I put my binoculars on it and it looked like a bird of some type. So I walked over to take a better look.
> “When I got close I saw it was a mature, dead bald eagle. And its talons – both feet – were locked solidly into the skull of a mostly decomposed fawn-size deer.
> “A DNR officer thought that because the deer was so deteriorated it was likely a 2- or 3-day old roadkill, and the eagle had picked it up at a nearby well-traveled road. A vehicle strike may have injured the eagle as it flew off with the decomposed small deer.
> “But I didn’t see any damage to its wings, legs or anywhere else. And I don’t think it was dead for more than a day.”
🤔
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Another weird one: How ’bout a deer killed by a power line??
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Roadkilled deer? Seen it. Eagle-killed deer? Seen it. But this??
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> …photo from a lineman who was working along a 4,800-volt overhead power line that collapsed in NY. buck was bedded in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Hate to see it, weird one for sure….
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Apply at gf.nd.gov:
> Game and Fish is making 72,200 deer licenses available to hunters this year, the 6th consecutive year of an increase and the highest level of licenses in 10 years.
💪
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> The two 9mm rounds fired by poacher David Kent at an Osage County whitetail deer with bizarre 14-point antlers hit the mark. Kent scrambled from his vehicle in the darkness Nov 11, 2011 onto private property, decapitated the buck and drove away. …turned out to be a world-class rack in the “perfect” category with 7 left and right antlers.
> State wildlife officers seized the antlers from Kent and set off an extraordinary regulatory, criminal, political and financial tug-of-war that pitted Scranton resident Tim Nedeau against the KS Dept of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism for possession of the prized rack.
> …feuding between Nedeau and state officials for rights to the trophy buck and reimbursement of $16,001 he paid the state for the rack now hanging in the office of a state representative at the Capitol.
> “It just floors me that they could have given them to me in 2012,” said Nedeau, who became convinced state agency officials made deceptive claims about him because they wanted to keep the rack. “It was a trophy for their walls.”
> The state agency contended land where the deer was shot was owned by Nedeau’s mother, not Nedeau, and that negated Nedeau’s claim to the antlers. The animal, according to the poacher, staggered across a road and died on land owned by a neighbor of the Nedeau family.
> The 2014 Legislature…passed a law requiring landowners to be given first refusal rights of wildlife poached on their property. A key point was that the statute wasn’t retroactive and had no bearing on the Kent-Nedeau situation.
> Nedeau subsequently filed a claim with the state for reimbursement of the $16,001, a request opposed by the state wildlife secretary. Nevertheless, Nedeau’s plea for repayment was slipped into the new state government’s budget. The governor pulled the trigger by signing the bill into law.
Dang! All that over a rack!
216,835 in 2020-21 vs 188,151 the year before.
> Unregulated hunting at the turn of the century virtually eliminated whitetail deer in eastern North America, leading to a restocking effort in the 1930s that included animals from other parts of the country.
> …now accepting applications for a limited number of deer and pig hunting permits for opening weekend of the A Zone general season, Aug 14-15. This is not a special hunt, but rather a drawing to control the number of hunters on popular public land during opening weekend.
> Locations for this hunt include Upper and Lower Cottonwood Creek and the San Luis Reservoir wildlife areas. Reservations are required to access the wildlife areas during opening weekend and only 30 permits will be issued for each day, Saturday Aug 14 and Sunday Aug 15.
Love it:
> …takes Iowans with zero hunting skills and teaches them to use a compound bow to hunt and kill whitetail deer. …students will also learn how to field-dress the animal and cook venison.
Hopefully they will learn to cook it right so it doesn’t end up as hard as a hockey puck lol!
> Vista Outdoor’s brands include Federal Premium, CamelBak, Bushnell, Camp Chef, Remington, Primos, Blackhawk, Bell, Giro, Bushnell Golf, Primos, Eagle, RCBS, CCI, HEVI-Shot, and Speer.
Study says so…no real surprise, but Captain Obvious was grateful for the info:
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Sept 3-5.
> Police believe it came inside because there were “several large-game taxidermy trophy heads” mounted on the walls.
Yikes!
14. 2A stuff.
Wonder what kinda load was behind those pellets!!
> To collect the bounty, you must turn bigfoot into OK authorities completely unharmed and the capture must be “live and humane.”
Good luck with that…🤪
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Deer Disease News
> “We want to make sure that we can protect the wild herd by locating all infected farmed deer in the state. And that’s much more difficult to do if they’re still moving around.”
A new 3-county disease management area. In that area, fawns cannot be rehabilitated, deer cannot be fed, and transporting deer carcasses is restricted. Mandatory sampling day also scheduled for Nov 13.
Says AZ herd is at heightened risk because of dry conditions:
> Wildlife biologist: “If we get chronic wasting disease and people decide not to go hunting anymore, we lose all the income that funds our conservation work.”
Ain’t gonna happen dude!
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> Full tang 5160 spring steel goes through the entire 16.75″ froe, and the 9.5″cutting edge excels at chopping but also works well for detailed work.
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> …harness system allows users to utilize the patent-pending quick release Bow Spider system to put a stalk on an animal without having to worry about having to bring a day pack along for the hunt.
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$449 🤯 but GearJunkie likes ’em:
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> The Millennium M60U Ultralite and M7 Microlite treestands are perfect for the hunters who want to pursue trophies far off the beaten path. When coupled with M250 Hang-On Climbing Sticks and the new for 2021 M260 Climbing Stick Quiver….
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Anti-microbial bags and spray are designed to stop venison spoilage before it starts:
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Back during show season we told you about the new Huron series of riflescopes. They seemed like a good optic at a good price and American Hunter thinks so too – they named the Huron the 2021 Optic of the Year: > The Huron line features both 30mm and 1″ main tubes. Focal lengths include 1x-4x, 2.5x-10x, 3x-9x and 3x-12x so there’s something for any hunting style or arm.
> …it’s waterproof and fogproof, qualities any hunter expects these days. Fully multi-coated, broadband, anti-reflective glass delivers excellent light transmission and zero distortion. Prices for any scope in the line top out below $700.
> Unlike most Trijicon optics, the Huron’s reticle is not illuminated. But for that price, most hunters won’t notice. What they will notice is that beneath the caps, turrets pop up and readily adjust in quarter-minute clicks.
> Hunters who don’t want to dial in elevation may instead use the BDC Hunter Holds reticle, which compensates for bullet drop out to 500 yards (it covers most popular deer-hunting calibers).
> Yeah, this is value – and performance. Clearly Trijicon never thought you had to sacrifice one to get the other, and they just proved it. MSRP: $650-$699.
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It happens. Sooner or later, we will miss an animal or need a quick follow-up shot to dispatch a critter. Outdoor Life has some tips on how to make it count: > …good, flexible marksmanship is an essential skill for giving yourself a chance at a precise follow-up shot, but the best thing you can do is stay calm.
> You also have to find a healthy balance between speed and calculation…. Rather than simply trying to get lead downrange as quickly as you can, take a second to assess the situation as it’s unfolding. This will help you stay calm and give you a reasonable chance at connecting.
> Two more key factors to keep in mind if you’re making a follow-up shot are range and wind conditions. Use a rangefinder to determine the yardage so you can determine the proper holdover or turret adjustments. [Of course that assumes you have a long visual….]
> Aside from staying calm and analytical…practice. Improvised positions, moving targets, finding long-range aiming solutions quickly, and shooting from a wide variety of ranges are all great way to improve your shooting ability.
> Sometimes the best decision is to hold off on taking an immediate follow-up shot on an animal you know you’ve missed or wounded. Each situation is its own can of worms, but the goal of any follow-up shot you take should be to end the situation, not make it worse.
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“The process of harvesting a wild animal has crazy amounts of overhead that go into it.”
– Commercial venison producer Jake Muise talkin’. Quote’s from a long post on axis deer overpopulation in HI, but we know those words are true for just about every deer hunter lol! Tip: Don’t add up the costs to take a deer, and if you do for dang sure don’t tell your sig O! 🤣
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The DB is put together by some deer nerds 😁 – Ted, Jay, others – from around the country. We excerpt content (and credit EVERYONE!), comment on content, do some original content…because we can’t get enough deer hunting – bet you’re wired the same!
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