Scott Shawl has been solving puzzles for a while now. Technically his family has been solving the big buck deer hunting puzzle since the 1800s. Ask Scott about the 300+ pound monster whitetail that his great grandfather Daniel Shawl shot back in 1914 and you’ll quickly realize that the Shawl’s have a long tradition of […]
Big Buck Registry Podcast

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry: 193 NICK PERCY
Apr 1, 2017 Nick Percy is joining us once again, but this time with a different take on food plots. The last time that we spoke with Nick was in June 2016 found here: www.BigBuckRegistry.com/killerfoodplots , when our focus was on food plots for the fall. Now, as the snow melts away in the Northern Zone, […]
192 WAYNE BOLTON – The Shed Hunting Fool
Wayne Bolton walks miles. We suggested that he try out a FitBit, just to keep track. As the “Shed Hunting Fool”, over the last 20 something years, Wayne has spent almost every hour he had available from around mid-January to mid-April hunting for every antler he could locate. We estimate that this would be the […]
191 MATT LIGHT – Football, Bowhunting, Treestand Therapy, The School of Belichick
Growing up in Ohio and working for different farms and construction companies, Matt Light learned what hard honest work was like. On the football field, he found a home where strength met aggression and technique. In the hunting woods, he found an appreciation and passion for the outdoors where focus on technique mattered just as much […]
190 DAN INFALT – Buck Beds, Swamps, Closing Time Bucks, Hunt Where They Don't
Maybe’s it’s revenge from when Dan Infalt was charged by a buck at age 9, or maybe it’s just that Dan’s strategizes a deer hunt more than most. Whatever it is, Dan Infalt is one heck of a good deer hunter. Dan begins a hunt with maps, not just to determine where the big bucks […]

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry: 189 LAURA ZERRA
Mar 4, 2017 Picture if you can traveling to a remote area, being stripped of all your clothing, meeting a complete stranger (also naked), and being left to fend for yourselves in the raw elements of the forest or jungle. Could you do it? This is a real scenario for Laura Zerra, one of the […]

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry: 188 JASON OBERMILLER & ERIC FITZGERALD
Feb 25, 2017 Agronomy is a noun. It means the science of soil management and crop production. Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification and taxonomy. When an agronomist and a biologist get together to think up what deer really need […]
187 BARRY WENSEL – Whitetail Bootcamp, Understanding Deer Movement & Terrain
Barry Wensel says two heads are better than one. What he’s referring to is the ability to learn the woods and understand deer hunting scenarios from the perspective of two woodsman instead of soley relying on his own perspective. The other woodsman he’s referring to is his brother Gene. Barry and Gene Wensel are regarded by […]
186 CHUCK TESTA – Taxidermy, Liberals, Mounted, and Nope!
A gun loving taxidermist living Ojai, California naturally finds himself surrounded by anti-gun anti-hunting liberals. It makes Chuck Testa’s life more interesting and says he’s lost lots of friends. But Chuck doesn’t take life too seriously (unless you’re talking about his taxidermy work – he’s all business there) and says we all are better off […]
185 DAVE GRAHAM and JAKE HUFF – Huff Land Company, Buying Your Piece of Whitetail Heaven
Every hunter has thought about owning their own hunting property at one phase of their hunting life or another. Whether it turns into realty is another story. Sometimes it’s a financial obstacle, sometimes, something else. What’s fascinating is that we often overlook the income potential of owning a piece of whitetail heaven. As Dave Graham, […]











