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If you are still coming to this old blog, please click here and be directed to my new and expanded blog and website! We will leave this site up for a year because it has so much valuable content, and so many great user-generated comments and posts by hard-core hunters like you--more than 5,000 of them! We will also be tying these archives in with the new website. Let's blog soon at the new www.mikehanback.com. I asked how the hunting went this weekend--great for this guy! Got this email: Oh my! The first 200-incher of the year! Don't know much about this buck, supposedly southwest Iowa, killed October 4, score unoffical at 200 7/8. Dang, what a deer, split G-2s are cool...super-long G-3s...if anybody knows more, tell us...would love to hear from the hunter, great job man...T-shirt is spot on.BTW, new BIG DEER coming this PM, stay tuned... Now most all the archery seasons are open. Going out Saturday or Sunday? What did you see? Shoot a doe or buck? I will be monitoring progress all weekend, so check in here and let me know, or ask a question. Good luck, shoot straight. This buck was reportedly just shot in Clermont County, Ohio and grossed around 170 . Great deer, way to go man! Focus on the tines on the right side, that is where this animal racks up score. Add up brow and G-2,3 and 4 and you get at least 32 right there. Everybody talks about width, but if it's score you want, width means little. A buck with an 18 inside spread scores 3 more inches than a 15 wide animal. Now imagine if the Ohio buck had tines only half as long; he'd be a good mature deer, but he'd score 16 less in that area of his rack alone. The beauty of a buck is in the eye of the hunter. If you don't give a flip about score, fine, shoot any buck that turns your crank this weekend. But if it's score you're after, look for tine lenght moving through the woods. Spot 3 tall tines on one side like the Ohio buck and get ready, you're looking at a big 10-pointer (assumes the other side of his rack matches up or isn't broken, and most of the time it works out). Shoot man! Last week: I posted about this enormous and legendary buck (12x14, 240 maybe, walking new state record maybe) living in the city limits (no hunting) of Sioux Falls, SD. Click here to watch the video of him again.This week: Is the monster still alive? Depends who you talk to:On 9/30 Lynne posted here: SAD NEWS. This buck was poached by an archer this afternoon. The good news is that the GF P has made an arrest! More comments on the YouTube page listed above. . .Minutes ago on 10/3 John Doe blogged: This deer (wasn’t) poached, Game, Fish and Parks has confirmed that it is still alive so good luck trying to confirm that it has been killed!!!I smell fish, anybody know more? Mike: I would like some discussion about straight-down shots at bucks that come right to the base of the tree. Last year I had two 8 points run in and stop directly below. I always spray fox urine in a circle around the base of the tree at waist level in case this happens, but since doing it with the urine, it has actually happened more often. The setup I like is 20 yards to the side of the trail, but the deer have been leaving the trail and stopping right at my tree. Several have come in and stopped facing me 10 feet away. I have passed those shots but maybe I should be taking them, shooting down through the front shoulder below the neck. What do you think? Hard to pass such close shots, not sure of the angle though. Also, are these deer coming to the fox urine? This seems to happen during the early season here in Michigan which opened October 1st. Thanks for the website and blogs. This is a much needed forum that helps us all to be better archers. Doug MI Whitetail Nut Tell you how eat up I am with this blog. I was in a stand in MT last week, thinking about the Whitetail Nut's question. A trail ran under the stand, 2 feet from the toe of the tree. Five does walked under me that evening, and I envisioned trying to kill one. All I could see was bony spine, and one narrow lung on either side. Not a good bowshot at all, I would not recommend it.BUT, when a deer you want to shoot walks straight under your stand, don't just sit there--draw and wait. Many times the deer will keep walking 5, 10 or 20 yards, stop and turn right or left or to look back, so doing going broadside and exposing both lungs. Shoot man! A lot of times this turns into a perfect quartering-away shot, just remember to move your sight pin slightly back on the ribs to drive the arrow/broadhead forward through the boiler room.Full disclosure: When I was younger and dumber, I took the spine shot a few times with very mixed results. Learn from my mistakes and don't do it.And yes, it is hard to pass up close shots at deer that are chest-on. Theoretically you could drive an arrow through the brisket and kill the animal, but this is a small area encased with shoulder bones. Don't shoot, but again draw when you can and wait for the deer to turn, it almost always will if just for a second. Trip the release! As for the fox urine, yes the deer might be coming to it. Several biologists have told me that mammal urine can actually attract deer at times. Heck, now I pee off my treestand and don't worry about it. Can't say I've p----- up a buck, but I don't worry about it spooking 'em. Mike: McKenzie did it again!! Not as big as last year's, but a great buck for her. This one even has a drop, lol! She is turning into a great hunter and doesn't have a bad track record--2 shots and 2 bucks! She has her sights set on a doe now. She told me she wants to fill the freezer, mom needs the meat. The bucks will have to wait till late season. She has a late muzzleloader buck tag left, and she can gun for a big boy then. Tim from IowaCome winter one of those corn-fed bruisers had better watch out, this girl can hunt man, awesome! I live in Florida and the deer down here are small. Is the .223 enough of a round to bring down a Florida deer without danger of just wounding it if the shot is well-placed? Thanks for your input, Bill I know people who shoot and kill deer (esp. does for management purposes or on depredation permits) with the .223, but I am no fan. Many of those deer are shot in the head--if you've blogged here before, you know I do not like the head shot on a doe or buck.Fact is, the .223 is considered too small to be a legal deer cartridge in many (most?) states. I don't know about Florida, but check the regs. I would definitely recommend moving up to the .243 with 100-grain bullet, perfect for shooting small-bodied deer in the heart/lung vitals where they ought to be shot, or the 7mm-08. What do the rest of you think? Anybody shot deer (legally) with the .223 and disagree w/me? Mike: A couple of hunting buddies and I have just leased a farm in Ohio. Since we are from NJ and have only hunted hardwoods, we need some help with farm hunting techniques. My question: As it relates to deer movement and feeding behaviors, what happens after your 100-acre SOYBEAN field gets picked? Will it be like a corn field where the deer continue to mill around it, or does it get picked so clean that deer don't use it much anymore? I would love to hear from the BIG DEER bloggers that hunt soybean fields, esp. in the Midwest. Thanks Silverback While I was in MT last week I met Kevin Moore, a Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts competitor, trainer and coach who owns 2 Ultimate Submission Academies in the state, and who knows everybody who is somebody in that kind of fighting world, Chuck Liddell, etc. (Photo: Cameramen John and Steven Tyler-look-a-like Randy are to Kevin’s right.) Nice guy Kev, soft-spoken, wiry, brims with confidence. I thought, Man, this guy could kick some ass. (Bottom photo: Kevin stretching it out at one of his academies; what would happen if you tried that?)“I have 3 passions in life, martial arts, whitetail deer and women,” Kevin said. Numbers one and three intrigued me, but I was there to interview him for a TV segment on big sheds, so I stuck to the script.A hard-core trad bowhunter--we had to wait for him to come in from the hunt that evening and wash off his camo paint—Kevin is also is fanatical shed hunter/collector who has amassed thousands of antlers and an impressive array of huge, world-class ones. Giant non-typicals like those on the table especially excite him (and me). What do you notice about the one I picked up? LOL. Cool story behind that set in the middle. Hunting in Alberta, Kevin found the hard, brown side. He happened into a bar and saw the other side stuck on the wall. He paid the guy $50 for it and mounted them together--230 inches plus, baby!We wrapped the interview in 20 minutes and had to scram. It was Saturday night, and Kevin had some buddies and chicks coming over to watch some ultimate fighting bouts on TV. Bet that was a party. Next morning at 6:00 Kevin was back out on his ranch again, hunting a 160-class buck he’d videoed (might go 170). He’d built a hay blind for an ambush where the deer was hanging out, and he thought it might happen. Damn, we’re a cool, crazy bunch. About This BlogThe blogosphere has changed the way we talk about world events, politics, entertainment…and now hunting. Come join the discussion...think, learn and tell us what's on your mind. This blog is also the place to see and read about some of the biggest whitetail bucks shot in North America. Send me your story and photo! “Some men are obsessed with good guns, fine wine and beautiful women. I am consumed with one day shooting a drop-tine buck.”—Hanback, January 1, 2008, the day this blog was launched

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