When rain drops are hitting the roof, most hunters ignore the alarm and roll over. A warm bed is more comforting than a cold, wet woods. However, those hunters may be missing out on one of the best hunts of the season. Let’s face it, most of us have fewer days than we would like Continue Reading →
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You find yourself deep in wild. You are cold, wet, shivering and lost. You’ve finally accepted the reality of the situation: you’re not going to go home tonight. And your gear is severely limited. What’s the first thing you should do? In all truth, this scary scenario doesn’t happen that often, but it does happen. Your
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There’s no better time of year than the whitetail rut. It’s the holy grail of the hunting season and provides the best chance for fulfilling our hunting dreams—or at least that’s what we tell ourselves. It’s also a period of time when deer are most active. Unfortunately, it’s not always as easy we’re led to
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Hunting over a pile of corn is the strip-club bachelor party of deer hunting tactics. Almost every guy will do it if given the opportunity (and it is legal in many whitetail powerhouse states like Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Ohio), but it’s not exactly something you brag about. And of course there’s the argument, usually
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Know the basics of supplemental feeding tips for deer Hardcore deer hunters are pretty serious about their management efforts these days. They plant food plots, shoot only a certain number and age of deer, and otherwise pay close attention to the overall health of their deer herd. Sometimes though, that’s not enough. Everything you need
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Black-tailed deer make phantoms seem positively obvious. These rainy forest wraiths are cousins of mule deer, but nothing except their forked antlers resemble their open-country kin. Blacktails crave tangles of grown-over hemlock and cedar and foggy ridges of old-growth fir. The Pacific Northwest’s Columbian blacktail roams the Coast and Cascade ranges from central California to
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