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This guy can be the next American Sniper, no not likely. Ok maybe he's just having a bad day. A very bad day. Maybe he's experimenting a bent barrel, or using a lighter grain ammo. Amazingly, the buck barely moves in between misses. The range is unknown, but it must be a long shot. You are also able to see the bullet's vapor trail on the video. One would think after several rounds of misses, the hunter would make some adjustments or Kentucky wind it. Goes to show how difficult precision long-range shooting can be, with many factors to account...

Watch as a trespassing hunter encounters an improvised booby trap. The property owner rigged up a tripwire attached to a paint bomb. Once triggered the paint sprays all over the trespasser. Leroy Ogin (trespasser), 73, told Deer and Deer Hunting that he had traveled that same path for over 60+ years to his hunting spot, which was an old logging road. He did not intend on hunting on the property. He claimed to have never had an issue with the landowner, and was never asked to refrain from traveling through what he acknowledged was private property. Trespassing charges for Ogin...

Freeing locked-up bucks is always risky, generally locked-up bucks are usually dead. Antler entanglement is the norm, while fighting can lead to the demise of some whitetail. The video below highlights our heroes untangling the two gladiators. Unfortunately, one buck has succumbed to exhaustion or injury and had a portion of his hind quarters eaten by a predator. The other is trying to rid himself of his adversary. See the action here.

You've heard it before: you should never gut a deer near your treestand. At least, that is a popular theory. As the saying goes, if you gut a deer near your stand, it will scare all the deer that frequent the area away. However, are there any facts to back up this claim, or debunks it? Well, yes. Here's what was found. After quite a bit of research into this topic, I was able to find this study done by Dr. James C. Kroll, who replicated gut piles all over the woods and placed trail cams right on top of...

When it comes time to field dress your deer, I hope you handle it better than these folks. I don’t want to rag on these hunters. Trust me, that is not the purpose of this post. However, I am sure we all have friends that get a little queasy when it comes time to field dress a kill. Yes, those people are out there, and sometimes the camera is rolling when it happens! Watch these hunters do everything they can to not vomit while cutting into this deer. Their reactions are classic! See it here.

Popular outdoor television and Youtube hunting videos highlights many whitetail while expiring. Generally, when you shoot a deer, you expect them to jump, maybe flop, some drop where they stand, some run off and leave a trail of blood you have to track (it happens). Generally, you don't expect something like this. When a friend of Garrett Sing took down -his- buck over the weekend, the deer didn’t flop, but it certainly had a spectacular jump! With his last breath, the buck sky rockets up like a spaceship and flips directly on his back. You couldn’t have placed it better...

Don't like dealing with the guts on your deer? Let’s face it: gutting a deer is probably the worst part of hunting. Maybe your harvest has fallen in a location you won't be able to drag it out. Or, you're over 400 yards away from your truck. A little know how of what to cut and avoiding the guts. How many of you out there use the gutless field dressing? If you're one of the newbies see the video to see how its done.

Is it bad luck?, watch this hunter takes a couple shot at this huge 10-pointer, but as you can tell his rifle isn't zeroed in. The poor rabbit in the background got the butt-end of this as it goes flying. Here is the hunter's explanation as to why both of his shots were so far off the mark and right on the rabbit. Here's the hunter's explanation: "To make a long story short, my son dropped my rifle one week before this hunt and did not tell me it was dropped, after making two repetitive shots with custom loads, I...

Though it's titled "Two deer with one shot", armchair analysts seem to be feeling anything but awe about this father-son pair's take. Accusations have ranged from there being multiple shots (which seems to be implied in the video), to a 'childish' countdown and poor shooting practice in general, some suggested that their choices in deer taken were unethical, and some accused the video-makers of leaving a deer wandering in pain or dying and wasting the meet (suggestions that while one deer fell, two jumped, implying they were hit). As one comment from the maker of the video points out, however:...

Where and How to Hunt for Bucks as Seasons Get Cranking in September With several deer hunting seasons in full swing in California, options are many for hunters, assuming one will fit our personal needs. Not many of us own or have access to a 20,000-acre ranch in the B Zone (most of the North Coast from the border to the Bay Area) that is crawling with deer, hogs, coyotes, cats, game birds and snakes. Option two is to join an established annual dues hunting club that offers access to hunts behind locked gates (reservations for all hunts required). You...

Coyotes will hurt our Deer Hunting With the rise of coyote population, Quality Deer Managment Association data shows that 75 percent of the coyote population needs to be removed annually to control their population. But the reality is that hunting coyotes isn’t going to make a dent in decreasing their population due too many coyotes out there. Some hunters and land owners have talked of trapping, localized areas have had some successes. Trapping is still hard due to resource, man power and gasoline. Someone has to get out there and check the traps in the areas. Despite the efforts our...

Drones have caused quite a stir in the hunting world with how they are used. Drones can be a great tool for deer hunting. Watch this video to see some awesome drone footage spying on bucks. While drones can be a very useful scouting tool in the summer to simply scout properties, they are starting to be outlawed by many states to be used during hunting season. Drones can cause problems with ethics if used incorrectly or illegally. If a drone is used in the wrong way, they can be a non ethical tool. When used the right way, you...

Recent advances in technology enable hunters or anybody to take shots at extreme ranges (TrackingPoint), no untrained shooter would even consider shooting an animal at such range. Video from Extreme Outer Limits highlights hunters successfully making a 1,315 yard shot on a mule deer. These hunters were using a rifle chambered in .26 Nosler using 140gr Berger VLD bullets with a ballistic coefficient of .612 (an extremely aerodynamic bullet). There's a mixed sentiment conversation taking place out in the online world whether it is ethical or not. Some comments were: – the bullet duration time of flight taking too long,...

Making long range kill shots is an incredible feat every hunter wants to accomplish, but realistically very few can pull them off in their hunting careers due to location and opportunity of the shot. Once in a while, we see a few that are hard to believe, and even amazing. Making the shots involve many factors such as: the terrain, wind, weather conditions and sight line. If it's all perfect then its easy to excecute. Yeh, I know easier said than done. So enjoy this video of the past highlighting some great long range shots.

All this talk of getting fit for hunting season in the fall. How about doing some deer recognition exercise. Go through these pictures quickly and see if you can spot the deer. Give yourself five seconds, any longer means the deer is gone. See the rest here.

Okay, seriously, who doesn't love a good prank every now and then? Even better yet, this one involves deer hunting. In this video, we are introduced to an unsuspecting, rifle-toting, story-telling, novice hunter who is clearly looking to make what appears to be his first ever shot on a massive buck. Yes, that's right its all captured on video. Obviously, his friend did a fine job of setting him up. See the video here.

A Chapel Hill, NC, native named Brian Attis shared a photo of this doe to his local news station when he spotted the deer meandering through his yard, yet the doe didn't seem phased by the protruding arrow as he was munching on the grass. The rest of the story here.

Watch as this hunter takes a shot at a big 10-pointer, but his rifle is clearly not zeroed in and the poor rabbit in the background goes flying. When you see the video the hunter takes 2 shots at the deer, but misses both. But, lets give the hunter some credit, here is his explanation. "To make a long story short, my son dropped my rifle one week before this hunt and did not tell me it was dropped, after making two repetitive shots with custom loads, I knew it was not me. 15 minutes later, buck came back out...

According to "The Clarion-Ledger" four poachers have been caught in Newton County, Mississippi after police caught them shooting at a deer at night. Like many poachers, they shot at the deer from a vehicle, but this was not a typical case. These poachers allegedly shot at the deer from the cab of an 18-wheeler. Officers were watching an area where they'd received complaints of head lighting of deer happening. They were surprised when the 18-wheeler truck showed up at 1:20 a.m. and someone shot at a deer out the window with a shotgun. Read the rest of the story here.

Think this was filmed overseas but anyways, the video shows a guy using a tree to get away from this 5 point deer.(I think) The guy basically maneuvers around the tree so the deer couldn't get to him. Eventually, the man climbs up the tree until the deer moves on. See it here.