Maryland Double Header Fair chase Sika Hunt
 

Check out this great sika hunt our team did last year! Watch as Chad and Toby Otwell harvest, to our knowledge, two of the largest, fair chase Sika stags ever captured on professional video, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1r9_e-NoU

Whats the story of sika deer in Maryland? I hear they have their own season now and everything.

They run wild all over very marshy public and private land of Maryland.They are super hard to hunt and they are best tasting deer you can eat.

I got to do some Sika hunting a few yrs ago for Assateague Island, wild ponies everywhere and they are some sneaky critters. Want to go back so bad and try it again. It was the last weekend to hunt them and they were nocturnal

From what I have been told they are almost always nocturnal.

Im going! I want to hunt one really bad! Whats considered a "big" sika deer?

A nice 6 point like the ones in the video.

that would make sense then. Some buddies who have been before said you almost got to jump them up like rabbits as they stay bedded down in some think stuff.

After 3 days of hunting and not finding anything we were leaving at dark on the 3rd night from Section 5 I believe and had 24 or 25 standing in the road when we went to close out gate.

Awesome video. Thanks for posting it.

Managed to Bowhunt them several years back in Dorchester County. Once when the were Bugling & another when they were not. lots of blood drawn "BY THE SKEETERS" in those Marshes but not much by me. My son killed a six with no points-all broken off from fighting..nubs where they had been.

I grew up hunting those deer down in Dorchester County. Haven't had many chances to get back over to them the past ten years though. I figure that in about 8 years of hunting them I was able to take about 15. Mostly all does and a few spikes. They are not hard to hunt but it is different than whitetail hunting. They like the swamps and marshes along the rivers. To kill a nice six point is a true trophy. Most of the deer average about 60 lbs. 80-100 lbs is big and the biggest I've ever heard of was 120 lbs. They do like to move right before light and right after dark but I think that it is also a matter of hunting pressure. I've seen them move quite a bit during the day. They can be very sneaky and quiet even in the water. I remember having them around my stand for what seemed like hours before I was actually able to see them. I've also seen video of them eating an hunter's orange vest right underneath a hunters stand. I would not call these animals smart! A lot of times when they do come in they will come back after the first one's down and let you take another to fill both tags. Anyway, the best part about these deer is that they taste just like elk. They're meat is darker than a deer's and much, much better. Definitely one of the best tasting deer out there. It's too bad that they're so small.