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Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

Release Date: 04/15/2021

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Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

Originally released January 25, 2014 | Big Buck Registry Episode 031 You've spent countless hours scouting, hunting, and finally putting a deer on the ground. But what happens after the harvest? Are you getting everything you can out of that venison? In this Big Buck Registry Evergreen Redux episode, we're heading back to 2014 for one of our favorite conversations about wild-game cooking, featuring New Hampshire executive chef, culinary instructor, and fellow deer hunter Corey Fletcher. At the time of the original recording, Corey was the executive chef at Granite Restaurant and Bar in...

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DEER NEWS September 2026: Trump’s Hunting Order, Public Access & Catalina’s Deer Debate show art DEER NEWS September 2026: Trump’s Hunting Order, Public Access & Catalina’s Deer Debate

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

What does President Trump’s hunting executive order actually mean for deer hunters—and what still needs to happen before anything changes in the woods? Jay Scott Ammann, Dusty Phillips, and Jim Keller lead this September edition of Deer News with a detailed examination of “Reinvigorating America’s Hunting Heritage,” signed September 17, 2026. Featuring excerpts from the president’s Rose Garden dinner remarks, we explore public-land access, Sunday hunting, lead ammunition, habitat management, hunter education, and venison donation. We also examine the history behind these policies,...

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BONUS: President Trump’s Full Rose Garden Remarks on Hunting & Fishing — September 17, 2026 show art BONUS: President Trump’s Full Rose Garden Remarks on Hunting & Fishing — September 17, 2026

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

Hear President Donald Trump’s remarks at the September 17, 2026 Rose Garden dinner with members of the hunting, fishing, and outdoor community. During the dinner, Trump discussed two executive orders addressing hunting and saltwater recreational fishing, along with public-land access, lead ammunition, habitat conservation, and other administration priorities. This bonus accompanies our September 2026 Deer News episode, where Jay Scott Ammann, Dusty Phillips, and Jim Keller examine the hunting order’s provisions, practical limits, implementation deadlines, and reactions from the hunting and...

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Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

NO EASY GROUND — A BBR BONUS TRACK Mature bucks don’t live on easy ground—and consistently hunting them requires more than luck. Inspired by our recent conversation with legendary bowhunter John Eberhart, “No Easy Ground” captures the relentless scouting, careful access, scent control, patience and hard-earned lessons behind pursuing pressured mature whitetails. The song serves as a musical companion to John’s third appearance on the BBR Deer Hunt Podcast and our discussion of the three-volume Ultimate Guide to DIY Bucks series, written by John Eberhart and Greg Godfrey. Listen to...

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Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

John Eberhart returns to the Big Buck Registry Deer Hunt Podcast for the BBR three-peat. John first joined us on Episode 209 in 2017 to discuss hunting heavily pressured bucks and his pioneering use of the tree saddle. He returned on Episode 287 in 2019, when we took a much deeper look at saddle hunting, postseason preparation, bedding areas, entry routes and hunting mature bucks on public land. Now, at 75 years old, John is back to discuss the most comprehensive work of his career: the three-volume “Ultimate Guide to DIY Bucks,” coauthored with Tethrd cofounder Greg Godfrey. John began...

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What makes great venison? Is it the shot? The equipment? The grinder? The seasoning? Or does it start long before any of those things? In this Big Buck Registry Revival Episode, we're revisiting one of our most practical and enduring conversations from the archives. Originally recorded in 2013, this episode features deer processor Al Gambardella, who spent years behind the cutting table helping hunters turn harvested whitetails into high-quality table fare. A lot has changed in the hunting world since this conversation first aired. Hunters today have access to better equipment, more...

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Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

Ben Martin, founder of the Hunt Regs app, joins the show to talk about how he went from a first-generation hunter to building one of the most useful tools in modern hunting. We get into the real problem hunters face with confusing regulations, how his app simplifies everything based on your exact location, and how it’s now being used by state agencies to improve poaching reporting and enforcement. 🎯 What We Cover How Ben got into hunting with no background or mentors The frustration of navigating hunting laws across different states Building the Hunt Regs app with no tech experience...

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307 Pittman–Robertson Act: The Hidden Engine Behind Deer Hunting - BBR Evergreen Series show art 307 Pittman–Robertson Act: The Hidden Engine Behind Deer Hunting - BBR Evergreen Series

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

Evergreen Revival of Episode 27 (Originally released December 28, 2013) In 2013, Big Buck Registry recorded Episode 27 — a conversation that quietly became one of the most important episodes in the show’s history. In it, we interviewed certified wildlife biologist Jeff Makemson of the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, exploring a topic most hunters never think about: Where does conservation funding actually come from? The answer leads directly to the Pittman–Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 — the law that rebuilt America’s wildlife,...

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Deer News Review 2025: The Rules, the Research, and the Reality show art Deer News Review 2025: The Rules, the Research, and the Reality

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

In this special year-end Deer News episode, the Big Buck Registry team takes a comprehensive look at the deer hunting stories that shaped 2025 across the United States. This episode moves state by state through the most consequential changes in deer hunting policy, access, and management—connecting regulation, science, enforcement, and biology into one clear picture of where deer hunting stands today. The episode begins in the Northeast, where long-running debates finally gave way to major access changes. New York legalized crossbows for deer hunting, New Hampshire expanded legal hunting...

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306 Dr. Grant Woods: Whitetail Deer Biology and Behavior – BBR Evergreen Series show art 306 Dr. Grant Woods: Whitetail Deer Biology and Behavior – BBR Evergreen Series

Deer Hunt by Big Buck Registry

Original Air Date 2013 RE-release Date 2025 In this Evergreen Edition, host Jay Scott Ammann revisits one of the Big Buck Registry’s most informative and enduring conversations — a deep dive with wildlife biologist Dr. Grant Woods, recorded in 2013. This remastered episode brings the original clarity of Grant’s insights back to the front, exploring how science, observation, and respect for deer behavior shape ethical, effective hunting. From deer vision and scent control to rut timing, habitat work, and trail camera use, Dr. Woods explains what decades of study have...

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Every deer hunter has dreamed of owning their own hunting camp.  Most camps or hunting cabins are usually weathered, or shifted, or rotted. Not to worry though, the Maine Cabin Masters can turn a teardown into an almost-new deer camp palace in just a few months.  We hash out the details of finding and rebuilding a deer cabin with Dixie and Jedi, (aka Matt Dix and Jared Baker of the show Maine Cabin Masters.  And of course, we talk about Matt and Jared’s Maine deer hunting adventures.

Special Guest Host: Wayne Saunders, Warden’s Watch

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Here’s What We Discuss:

  • Discovery Plus, I’m Not a Carpenter
  • Wayne Is a HUGE Fan Too!
  • Gotta Be A Deer Hunter in this Crew
  • We’ve Know Each Other Forever, U Maine Farmington
  • Chase Identified and Opportunity and Trapper Cabin
  • It Wasn’t 16 Kids, but Quite a Few
  • Maine is Like New Hampshire
  • Working on Deer Camps
  • Big Woods, Hard Hunting, Legendary Trackers
  • Fuller Episode, 100 Acres in an 800 Acres Preserve
  • Central Maine Deer Population
  • Deer Living in Minus 20
  • The Alertness of the Maine Whitetail
  • Big Buck Get Big for a Reason
  • Cabins in Maine, Job Security
  • Swillin’ Beers and Deer Camp
  • Soloist Hunting, Live Free or Die
  • Suzie the Dog Cameo
  • The Woodshed in Manchester Maine
  • Lab Family
  • Owning a Piece of Maine Heaven
  • Family or from Scratch
  • Fundamentals vs Ornamentals
  • Post and Piers, Off Level
  • 1st Step, Clean out the Camp
  • Step 2, Jack it
  • The New Metal Post Digger Below the Frost Line
  • Frost Heaving
  • Drill and Pin Ledging
  • It’s a Different Kind of Cold 
  • Hearty Individuals
  • Turning the Elements into a Playground
  • Too Much TV is Insanely Boring
  • Adjusting Camp Levels Every Few Years
  • Camera Shoots and Hours of Explanation
  • North Woods Law Wardens
  • Coffee and Talking 
  • Building Things 3 or 4 Times for Film
  • Get the Work Done after the Film Crew Leaves
  • No, we Can’t Do This Camp
  • 3 Camps at a Time Usually
  • Demo Is Fun
  • Demo vs Dismantling
  • Roof, Step 3
  • Metal vs Shingles
  • Patchwork, Eastern White White, No Sheet Rock
  • Shiplap Super Boards
  • Remote Renovations, Generators and Good Batteries
  • Chase’s Shirt Designs
  • Letterkenny References 
  • Pitter Patter
  • Deer Hunting Grandfather
  • Trackers of Maine, Can’t Sit
  • Upland Game Hunting
  • Pots and Pans, Filling the Freezer
  • Deer Like Elk Sounds
  • Duck Hunting on the Eastern River
  • Bear Season and Grouse
  • Bird Dogging
  • Chase Says High
  • Deer Stories
  • Rapid Fire Questions

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This Show was Written, Edited, and Produced by Jason “Jay” Scott Ammann

Deer News Written and Recorded by Jim Keller

Deer New Contributors - Daniel Applebaum, Tim Donze, Jon Guice

Chubby Tines Tip of the Week Written by Dusty Phillips

Special Guest: Wayne Saunders from Warden’s Watch 


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