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09/11/2026

09/11/2026

MICHIGAN DEER HUNTERS — A LONGTIME FI***RM RULE DISAPPEARS TOMORROW

If you’ve hunted Michigan’s Lower Peninsula for years, this is one regulation you’ll want to forget what you used to know.

Beginning Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, Michigan officially eliminates the longtime Limited Fi****ms Deer Zone.

That means the old southern Lower Peninsula restriction is gone.

For the 2026 deer season, hunters may use all otherwise-legal fi****ms throughout the Lower Peninsula during seasons where fi****ms are permitted.

In simple terms:

👉 Michigan is no longer dividing the Lower Peninsula into a traditional northern fi****ms zone and southern limited-fi****ms zone.

That’s a pretty substantial change for Michigan deer hunters.

🔫 WHAT CHANGED?

Under the old system, hunters in much of southern Michigan were restricted to specific fi****ms and cartridges during fi***rm deer seasons.

Beginning Sept. 12, those geographical equipment restrictions disappear.

But that does NOT mean every fi***rm or cartridge is automatically legal.

Hunters still have to comply with Michigan’s other fi***rm, am******on, hunting-location and season-specific regulations.

The change simply eliminates the additional Limited Fi****ms Deer Zone restrictions based on where you are hunting in the Lower Peninsula.

🦌 AND THE TIMING ISN’T ACCIDENTAL

The rule takes effect as two Michigan deer opportunities begin tomorrow, Sept. 12–13:

🔸 Early Antlerless Fi***rm Season

Available on qualifying private lands in participating Lower Peninsula Deer Management Units.

🔸 Liberty Hunt

Available statewide for qualifying youth hunters and hunters with disabilities.

⚠️ THAT’S NOT THE ONLY CHANGE FOR 2026

Michigan deer hunters have several other regulation changes worth knowing this year.

📅 December fi***rm season shortened

The Lower Peninsula December fi***rm season is now only:

Dec. 4–6

🦌 New Late Antlerless Fi***rm Season

Runs:

Dec. 7, 2026 – Jan. 1, 2027

in participating Lower Peninsula DMUs.

🏹 January archery eliminated

Michigan eliminated the extended January archery opportunity that previously existed in certain areas.

🦌 Antlerless license rules changed

Michigan now has county-level limits governing how many universal antlerless licenses hunters may use in certain areas.

🌽 AND NO — THE FI***RM CHANGE DIDN’T CHANGE THE BAITING RULE.

Baiting and feeding deer remains prohibited throughout Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, with limited exceptions specified by Michigan DNR for certain qualifying hunters during designated special hunts.

So don’t confuse:

“The limited-fi****ms zone disappeared”

with:

“Michigan relaxed all its deer regulations.”

It didn’t.

📌 BOTTOM LINE

If you’ve hunted southern Michigan for years and automatically think:

“I can’t use that r***e down here.”

Check the 2026 regulations before assuming that’s still true.

Beginning tomorrow, Michigan’s longtime Lower Peninsula Limited Fi****ms Deer Zone is officially history.

👇 MICHIGAN HUNTERS — WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Was eliminating the Limited Fi****ms Deer Zone long overdue?

Or did you prefer the old restrictions in southern Michigan?

And if this changes what you’re carrying this deer season, what r***e are you switching to?

🔗 OFFICIAL SOURCES

Michigan DNR — 2026 Deer Hunting Regulations:
Michigan DNR — Deer Hunting Regulations⁠

Michigan DNR — 2026 Deer Hunting Preview & Regulation Changes:
Michigan DNR — 2026 Deer Hunting Preview⁠

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09/11/2026

When you’re two-year-old teenager starts to get an attitude.

Excuse me, sir!

09/11/2026

UNLIMITED DOES?! MARYLAND JUST MADE A MAJOR CHANGE TO DEER HUNTING — AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY NEW RULE

Maryland’s 2026–27 archery deer season officially opened TODAY, September 11, and hunters in part of the state are entering the woods under a deer-management rule that will probably make hunters elsewhere do a double take:

🔥 UNLIMITED ANTLERLESS DEER during archery season.

Yes — unlimited.

But before anyone thinks Maryland just opened the floodgates statewide, there’s an important catch.

🦌 ONLY FIVE COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED

The unlimited archery antlerless limit applies specifically to Maryland’s Urban/Suburban Deer Management Zone, which includes:

📍 Anne Arundel County
📍 Baltimore County
📍 Howard County
📍 Montgomery County
📍 Prince George’s County

These are some of Maryland’s most developed and densely populated areas.

Maryland DNR says the additional harvest opportunity is intended to help manage locally abundant deer populations and deer-related conflicts in areas where traditional fi***rm hunting can be difficult.

Outside that special zone, normal regional bag limits still apply.

For example, the archery antlerless limit elsewhere in Maryland’s Region B remains 15 deer.

So this is NOT:

❌ “Maryland hunters can shoot unlimited does statewide.”

It IS:

✅ Unlimited antlerless archery harvest within five specifically designated urban/suburban counties.

🏹 WHY ARCHERY?

Managing deer around subdivisions, businesses, parks and heavily developed areas creates an obvious problem:

There may be too many deer but very limited places where fi***rm hunting is practical or permitted.

Archery gives wildlife managers another tool for removing deer in areas where traditional fi***rm seasons may not accomplish enough harvest.

Maryland has increasingly relied on hunters as part of its effort to address deer overpopulation, agricultural damage, vehicle collisions and impacts to forests and landscaping.

And now qualifying archery hunters in those five counties have essentially had the antlerless ceiling removed.

🚁 AND THEN THERE’S THE DRONE RULE…

Maryland hunters also have a completely different new regulation this season:

Drones can now legally be used to help locate and recover wounded or dead game.

But Maryland drew a very clear line.

A drone may be used for:

✅ Locating a wounded animal
✅ Locating a dead animal
✅ Assisting with recovery after the shot

A drone may NOT be used to:

❌ Hunt wildlife
❌ Pursue wildlife
❌ Scout an animal for the purpose of taking it
❌ Direct a hunter toward live game to make a harvest

And hunters can’t simply launch a drone whenever they want.

Anyone conducting a drone recovery search must contact Maryland Natural Resources Police before beginning the search AND again when the search is completed.

🤔 THIS COULD BECOME A MUCH BIGGER HUNTING ISSUE

Drone recovery laws are starting to create an interesting divide between states.

The technology can potentially help hunters recover animals that otherwise might never be found.

Supporters see that as:

better recovery + less wasted venison + fewer unrecovered deer.

But opponents worry about where recovery technology ends and electronic hunting begins.

Maryland’s answer appears to be:

After the shot? Recovery is allowed.

Before the shot or helping make the kill? Absolutely not.

And that distinction could become increasingly important as thermal drones and other technology become more accessible to hunters.

🦌 TWO VERY DIFFERENT CHANGES — SAME BIG QUESTION

Maryland is essentially experimenting with two modern deer-management tools at the same time:

🏹 Give hunters substantially more antlerless opportunity where deer numbers are problematic.

🚁 Allow modern technology to help recover deer after they’re shot.

Both are intended to solve real wildlife-management problems.

Both will probably generate plenty of opinions.

So we’re curious what hunters elsewhere think.

👇 QUESTION #1:

If deer numbers were genuinely excessive where you hunt, would you support an unlimited archery doe limit in specifically designated management zones?

👇 QUESTION #2:

Would you support allowing drones strictly for recovering a deer AFTER the shot where you hunt?

Or is that a line hunting shouldn’t cross?

Let’s hear it. 👇

🔗 OFFICIAL SOURCES

Maryland DNR — 2026–27 Archery Deer Season Announcement⁠

Maryland DNR — 2026–27 Deer Seasons & Bag Limits⁠

Maryland DNR — Official Hunting Regulations⁠

09/11/2026

Don’t forget folks tomorrow we will be closed here at the farm shop. However, we will have product at the Rend Lake archery challenge if you wanna come find us there.

We are open until 7 PM this evening, September 11.

Or feel free to order online.

09/10/2026

🦌 32 YEARS. LET THAT SINK IN.

The largest typical whitetail ever officially recorded from the United States was killed right here in Illinois in 1991…

…and for more than THREE DECADES, practically nobody knew what it was.

No trophy-room spotlight.

No record-book recognition.

No national attention.

Just a skull-capped set of antlers screwed to a simple plaque and hanging in a basement.

For 32 YEARS. 🤯

Now, after finally being officially measured and verified, the Sam Aiuppa/James Martin Buck has been confirmed by the Boone and Crockett Club at:

🏆 207 7/8 inches NET TYPICAL

That makes it the:

🇺🇸 #1 typical whitetail ever recorded from the United States

🌎 #2 typical whitetail in the world

And the story of how it stayed hidden for so long might be just as unbelievable as the rack itself.

🦌 IT STARTED WITH A PHEASANT HUNTER

In late November 1991, Sam Aiuppa was pheasant hunting in LaSalle County, Illinois.

After putting his bird dog away, Aiuppa decided to climb into a deer stand along some timber.

He swapped the birdshot in his Re*****on 870 for a slug.

About 40 minutes later, a giant Illinois whitetail walked underneath him.

Aiuppa killed the buck.

But here’s the part that explains everything:

He wasn’t really a serious deer hunter.

Aiuppa considered himself primarily a bird hunter.

He didn’t look at those antlers and immediately start thinking about Boone & Crockett scores, record books or where the buck ranked nationally.

Instead, he did what plenty of hunters did back then.

He skull-capped the antlers.

Screwed them onto a plaque.

And hung them in his basement.

That’s where they stayed.

1991.

2001.

2011.

2021.

Still hanging there.

⚡ THEN AN ELECTRICIAN SAW THEM.

More than three decades later, Aiuppa needed some electrical work done at his home.

A friend from his trapshooting club happened to be an electrician.

The antlers came up in conversation.

Aiuppa showed him the rack.

And unlike Aiuppa…

the electrician immediately realized there might be something VERY special hanging in that basement.

Rough measurements were taken.

Word began spreading.

And after approximately 32 years, the secret was finally out.

🤯 THEN THE STORY GOT EVEN CRAZIER.

Antler collector James Martin eventually learned about the rack.

Martin lives near Rochester, New York.

He drove more than 600 miles to Illinois just to see it.

He eventually purchased the antlers and began the process that would ultimately lead to their official recognition.

But there was another fascinating piece of evidence.

Sheds from this same buck had apparently been found YEARS before Aiuppa killed him.

One shed reportedly measured 98 6/8 inches.

A matched pair from another year reportedly measured approximately:

🦌 95 inches

and

🦌 104 6/8 inches

Serious antler collectors already knew about those enormous Illinois sheds.

What they apparently didn’t know was that the buck’s final rack had been hanging quietly in someone’s basement all along.

📏 THEN BOONE & CROCKETT GOT INVOLVED.

Once the rack was submitted for official measurement, its potential ranking required additional verification.

After the initial measurement, two additional Boone and Crockett official measurers independently measured the rack.

The score charts were then reviewed by the chairman of Boone and Crockett’s Records of North American Big Game Committee.

The final verified score:

🔥🔥 207 7/8 INCHES NET TYPICAL. 🔥🔥

That moves the Aiuppa buck ahead of the legendary Jordan Buck, which scores 206 1/8.

Only one typical whitetail in Boone & Crockett history ranks higher:

🇨🇦 Milo Hanson’s Saskatchewan buck — 213 5/8 inches.

Which means a whitetail killed by a pheasant hunter in LaSalle County, Illinois, 35 years ago is now officially recognized as the…

🏆 LARGEST TYPICAL WHITETAIL EVER RECORDED FROM THE UNITED STATES.

🤯 THINK ABOUT THAT.

Hunters spend years running trail cameras.

Managing properties.

Planting food plots.

Studying genetics.

Watching weather patterns.

Passing young bucks.

Tracking the rut.

Dreaming about putting a once-in-a-lifetime whitetail on the wall.

Meanwhile…

The biggest U.S. typical was hanging in an Illinois basement because the guy who killed him was more interested in pheasants. 😂

You seriously couldn’t write a better whitetail story.

And it leaves us with one question:

👇👇👇

HOW MANY OTHER RECORD-BOOK GIANTS ARE STILL HANGING FORGOTTEN IN BASEMENTS, BARNS AND GARAGES ACROSS AMERICA?

Because apparently…

you never really know what’s hanging on Grandpa’s wall. 🦌

📌 SOURCES / READ THE FULL HISTORY

Boone & Crockett Club — Lost for 30 Years: #2 Typical Whitetail and Illinois State Record
https://boone-crockett.org/lost-30-years-2-typical-whitetail-and-illinois-state-record

Outdoor News — Decades after it was shot, Boone and Crockett verifies historic Illinois whitetail
https://www.outdoornews.com/2026/09/09/decades-after-it-was-shot-boone-and-crockett-club-verifies-historic-whitetail-as-largest-u-s-typical-buck/

Grand View Outdoors — Aiuppa Buck Becomes Largest Typical Whitetail Ever Taken in U.S.
https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/news/aiuppa-buck-largest-typical-whitetail-ever-taken-us

09/10/2026

The countdown to deer season just got real. 🦌🔥

Velvet is starting to peel, ribbons are hanging, and those summer-grown antlers are about to be the highlight. It’s one of the clearest signs that fall—and opening day—are only a few weeks away.

Soon, scrapes will open, rubs will appear, and bucks will start showing us what they’ve been growing all summer.

Are you ready for opening day, or do you still have work to do before the season starts? 🏹