Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

How do you hunt from crutches? Steph Brown knows first hand despite going against her doctor's orders. Steph has traveled around the country and around the world, but always comes back to Ohio. We go inside hunting the big bucks of Ohio and on a South African safari hunt with Steph as we explore the similarities and differences between each. Granted, hunting the Black Death isn't exactly like hunt...

From the New Hampshire Fish and Game Adventure Talk Series comes Hunting Dominant Bucks with Dave Priebe, Quaker Boy Game Calls Pro-Staffer. Dave is a life long student of the deer hunt, where he's not only studied whitetail behavior but has studied the hunter too. Dave has put together a no nonsense presentation on hunting dominant bucks, from a whitetail behavior perspective and from a hunter po...

Constant tinkering in the machine shop and thinking outside the box has lead Gearhead Archery to some of the most innovative bow designs in recent history. How can we make a compound bow more compact? Skip Peterson shares the story behind the growth and concepts of Gearhead archery. From the napkin the original design was written on to the growth and future of archery at Gearhead Archery, this is...

On October 29th, 1965 Mel Johnson was hunting over a soy bean field not 20 minutes outside Peoria, Illinois. He shot with a bow and arrow the buck that has held the record for almost 50 years. Will that record ever be broken? We're not sure, but we tracked down Mel to get the real story and learn exactly what a world class whitetail archery hunter has to say about deer hunting after 81 years. Note...

Early deer season is upon us! There are a few special tactics that you can take to the woods with you now to make you more successful. We turned to one of the best to lay out an early deer season hunting strategy and you can too. We discuss with Dr Grant Woods of Growing Deer the following: red oak acorns vs white oak acorns, the change from summer patterns to early fall patterns and why it happen...

Hunting a hay bale in the fields of Kansas can be quite a contrast from hunting the mountain tops of New Hampshire. Craig Cushman, the VP of Marketing for Hunter Specialties, can speak from experience about each of these methods.  He's spent a good deal of time working for "outdoor" companies too and he shares his career story. From college to Garmin to Thompson Center to Ruger and now to Hunter S...

We continue our exploration of urban deer hunting tactics as we journey a suburban area in Georgia with special guest Brandon Grindle of Buck Fifty. Brandon is a full time college pre-med student, works a steady job, but spends all of his free time preparing for deer season inside city limits. He shares all his tips and secrets with us, paints a picture of the landscape, and describes the challeng...

Some of us are so used to hunting the big woods that we overlook opportunity close to town. Granted, it might mean that you will have a visual of your vehicle from your tree stand and will need avoid a jogger or two, but big deer live and thrive in urban areas too. With the right set up, tactics, awareness, proficiency testing, and tags you too could take a monster buck not far from downtown. Dan...

David March grew up influenced by the lifestyle of inner city living, and not the glamorous kind. Being shot can change your whole perspective on life. That's what happened to David March. Fortunately, David's uncle had the insight to briefly introduce David to an outdoor hunting way of life when he was a boy, and that stuck. After the shooting incident, David made the leap from the city way of li...

Chances are that you've seen the Girls with Guns logo while cruising through any of the major outdoor sporting goods retailers.  Would you like to hear the back story? We did too!  So we found the founders of the business to hear how they developed the Girls with Guns style, grew their brand, and how they produce some of the most popular designer lady's outdoor clothing in the country.    We talk...

The Salerno Brothers have been deer hunting the Adirondack Mountains of New York for a long time, going back generations.  Meet Tim and Randy Salerno, arguably two of the best still hunters in America.  The Adirondacks are remote, uncut, and rugged.  The techniques that the Salerno's have mastered took years to perfect and they share many of their secrets during this interview.  Find out what work...

Meet Dean Capuano, host of the Outdoor Channel's Swarovski Optics Quest.  You'd think that a host of a TV show might have one different path to television, but this one is a bit different.  Dean started his hunting passion in the heart of the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island.  After an amazing college hockey career and after being drafted by the Boston Bruins, a career ending injury elimi...

Young, hard hunting men with a plan. We WISH we had this kind of drive when we were 20 years old. Meet Jake and Nick Miller from OTown Outdoors. They are in the very beginning of their journey and we're excited that we got in on the ground level to watch. Nick and Jake are brothers that have been hunting and filming hunts from a very early age and are now perfecting their crafts. If you want to up...

Merrill Sport has been in the television industry for over 30 years, specifically outdoor television. Once an owner of Pursuit Channel, Merrill has moved on to new adventure as President of the Hunt Channel. The model of the Hunt Channel is different than the other 3 players, the Outdoor Channel, the Sportsman Channel, and the Pursuit Channel, but Merrill believes he has the best value for anyone...

Merrill Sport has been in the television industry for over 30 years, specifically outdoor television. Once an owner of Pursuit Channel, Merrill has moved on to new adventure as President of the Hunt Channel. The model of the Hunt Channel is different than the other 3 players, the Outdoor Channel, the Sportsman Channel, and the Pursuit Channel, but Merrill believes he has the best value for anyone...

Adam Vinatieri is one of the best football players in the NFL, never-mind one of best kickers of all time. Carl Drake is a fire fighter and Realtree Outdoors®​ Prostaffer. Adam, playing for the Indianapolis Colts and usually going deep into the playoffs, Tuesday is typically the only day Adam gets to hunt.  Carl and Adam joined forces to find better hunting spots and have become great friends in t...

If you added up all the whitetail bucks that Gordon Whittington has written of over the last 30+ years, you'd read over 1000 incredibly well crafted stories about some of the largest whitetails the world has ever seen. A man after our own heart, we could not wait to hear Gordon's story about the bucks he's written about, how he became the Editor in Chief of North American Whitetail Magazine, and t...

Mike Adams is affectionately known to his outdoor podcasting peers as the "Godfather". Rightfully so, he's been podcasting since 2007 which was before the concept of the podcast hit mainstream. Mike has been through life's ups and downs since the inception of the Up North Journal podcast, but he's still going strong after re-inventing and re-energizing the show a few times over the years. If you a...

Lots of things have changed since the Pope and Young Club formed in 1961. Once the compound bow was thought to be taboo, but today it's old news. New rules might now make that once ineligible buck a state record and dwindling hunter numbers is a major concern. Jim Willems speaks to us about all things Pope and Young on this show: from the origins of the club, to the myths that circulate in the gen...

Did you know that England has 6 species of deer? And, that technically, because of how the antler growing season falls for one of the species, that you can hunt deer all year round? Yep, it's true. These are just a couple of the facts that we learned. We interview Matt Goodlife, a game management specialist, to figure out what deer hunting is like in England and to explore the similarities and dif...

From a very early age Melissa Bachman was introduced to the hunting lifestyle. It was not uncommon to find Melissa in a hunting stand or a goose blind before school when she was a teenager and it wasn't long after that when Melissa knew that she wanted to hunt for a living. There were challenges along the way and many people told Melissa that it couldn't be done. Today, she is living the life she...

We love great deer hunters. Shocker there right?! We found another great hunter to interview and his numerous wall hangers set the stage. We learn from Jim Snow how he strategizes and plans for hunts and how Jim successfully kills big whitetail bucks. And get this: Jim also invented theEuroHanger. After killing so many great bucks and loving the European mount, Jim developed a device specifically...

We can think of no better way to pay tribute to our good friend Lane Benoit than to dedicate our 100th Episode to one of the greatest deer hunters that ever lived.  This is Part III, a Tribute to Lane Benoit, This Original Interview from May 31, 2014 In the Episode We Discuss: Lane's First (and only) Podcast "Podcast"- a term that means "Bait for Trout Fishing" The Life of a Mountain Man, A Cabin...

We can think of no better way to pay tribute to our good friend Lane Benoit than to dedicate our 100th Episode to one of the greatest deer hunters that ever lived. This Is Part II- Dinner at Paul's Cabin In This Episode We Discuss: Meet Johnny, Lane's Prostaff Mechanic Lane and a Japanese Vehicle A Visit to the Gun Shop, Turning the Celebrity on and Off The Reach of the Benoit Name and the New Yor...

We can think of no better way to pay tribute to our good friend Lane Benoit than to dedicate our 100th Episode to one of the greatest deer hunters that ever lived.  Thoughts from Friends of the Field, This is Part One: Hal Blood Richard Bernier Steve Beckwith Tom Blais Matt Trombley John Klucky Part I (Saturday) is a collective of friends and field associates that share their insights of Lane Beno...