Whitetail

      Hunter Numbers are on the Rise

      by OOBuck December 24, 2012

      Hunter Numbers are on the Rise My youngest son Connor is the least competitive hunting partner I have ever had. He gets the greatest pleasure from the associations with friends and relatives. He hunts differently than I do and spends most of his time in the outdoors involved in the pages of a book. He [...]

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      EHD Threatens Black Hills Deer Populations

      by Bob Speirs September 21, 2012

      The eagles had already eaten his tongue and eyes. Two days before I had seen this buck and four of his bachelor herd grazing through the sunflowers. He was easy to identify; four long tines on his left beam and six lesser points on the right. The two golden eagles had a young bald eagle [...]

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      Deer Licenses Reduced, Refunds Offered Due to Die-offs

      by admin September 19, 2012

      PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department has been monitoring die-offs of white-tailed deer across portions of the state and must make adjustments to some West River deer hunting units. Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) has been confirmed in white-tailed deer, and many of the deer deaths being reported by the public [...]

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      Surprise Buck

      by admin December 27, 2011

      This story and set of photos comes to us from Rapid City hunter Mark Zacher. I’d been looking for a DIY public land buck like that for a very long time, since we had to change up our hunting area last year and find a new spot. My son is 25 and is a hunting [...]

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      Surprises

      by Bob Speirs December 9, 2011

      The greatest delight of hunting season is often found not in the harvest of a known quarry, but rather in the sudden and unexpected surprises served up when seasoned hunters have convinced themselves that they have seen it all. I saw the biggest buck of the year on the last day of the season. He [...]

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      Patience wins the Buck

      by Bob Speirs November 29, 2011

      I’d seen this buck on opening day. He was high and heavy with a small drop tine on his right main beam. He had just had his head handed to him by a one-antlered monster; a heavily muscled whitetail with a more aggressive personality. The one-antlered buck had experience, age, and attitude on his side. [...]

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      How to Grow Big Whitetails

      by admin August 31, 2011

      We recently received this interesting article regarding the growth of Whitetail Antlers – a study conducted in South Dakota back in 2009.  The article is part of an ongoing series entitled Trophy Points:  Big Game Research – a series put out by the Boone and Crockett Club. By Kevin L. Monteith (B&C Official Measurer), Jonathan A. Jenks (Distinguished Professor, [...]

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      Muzzleloaded Monster

      by admin May 12, 2011

      I started hearing about a big buck living on my friends land and the adjoining property last July. My buddy had to had told me that it was one of the biggest bucks that he had ever seen. I also heard stories from other guys that had seen a big deer up in that area. [...]

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      Mykel Glowcheski 2010 Archery Whitetail

      by admin March 8, 2011

      This story comes from archery hunter Mykel Glowcheski It was a Monday morning and I should have been back at college but instead I decided to spend one more morning in the stand.  There is just something about the November rut that I cannot get away from! Although the high for that day, November 8th [...]

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      Big Bucks Still Available to Hunters

      by Bob Speirs December 17, 2010

      It had been three months since I’d last set eyes on the big five-by-five whitetail. His high, wide, symmetrical rack was the most impressive set of antlers I’d ever seen grown by a Black Hills deer. I’d spent an hour watching him from afar in September. He’d come down from the hills with the early [...]

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