Turkey bowhunting is an often frustrating—but therefore all the more rewarding—sport. It takes patience, focus and, above all, attention to detail. One of those details is your broadheads. Luckily, the days of hunting with deer broadheads that miss, pass through or destroy your quarry beyond harvesting are long gone, and the market now features a … Read more
Still have a turkey tag or two come the last week of the season? Never fear, with the right tactics, you can go out and get a gobbler in the dense spring foliage. One of the most important things you should calibrate to the late season specifically is your decoy setup. Here are six of … Read more
Who doesn’t love sitting under a tree? But all day long? No matter how tough your backside is, you’re going to wish you had a chair. However, to minimize your chances of being spotted by a gobbler, you need a chair with features specific to turkey hunting. I’ve found 10 with a mix of these … Read more
So you want to bag your first turkey. Turkeys are some of the most popular game animals because they’re fun to hunt, but even if you’re already an experienced hunter, they have their own quirks that require specific knowledge and tactics. Before you trek out into the woods looking for gobblers, consider these seven turkey … Read more
Two of the most common species and frequently hunted are elk and mule deer. However, as closely related members of the deer family, it can sometimes be confusing which is which.
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Though hopefully not while we’re hunting, almost all of us at one point or another have had the privilege of being stomped at by a whitetail deer.
The allusive bull elk rack is the dream of many a bowhunter. Because they’re often wise from years of successfully evading hunters, taking down one of these dominant bulls with a bow and arrow is no easy feat.
You use bait to fish, why not to hunt deer? Okay, so maybe baiting deer is a bit more complicated, both practically and legally, but with the right approach, it can be a boon to your hunt. To make the most of deer bait, try these seven tips. 1. Use the Right Feed or Bait … Read more
Even if you’re not hunting deer, any wildlife enthusiast or person with deer on their property can benefit from knowing what deer droppings mean.
If you want to bulk up at the gym, you take a protein supplement. If you want to bulk up your herd of whitetail deer, you need to get them to do the same.
Yes, deer can smell. In fact, they’re great at it. Their long noses are a lot better at picking up the scent particles in the air with a whopping 297 million olfactory receptors while humans have a dinky five million.
Deer terminology can be confusing, but it’s actually important when it comes to scoring antlers for trophy hunting and herd management.
Believe it or not, a deer’s head is not the only place you can find antlers. Since they shed every year, many people have started taking to the woods to look for this wonder of nature that has inspired us for thousands of years. If you’d like to start hunting for shed antlers, there are eight main places you should look as well as some tips and tricks to follow to increase your chances of success.
Unlike horns, tusks and other growths, antlers fall out and regrow each year in a dramatic and rapid cycle.
Rubs and scrapes are two of the most useful whitetail deer markings for hunters. Unfortunately, they’re also two of the most confused terms in the hunting community with some hunters mistakenly thinking they’re the same thing.
As one of the most impressive structures in the animal kingdom, antlers don’t exactly have a simple growth pattern. Consequently, asking when they grow is a more complicated question than it might seem.
Antler Velvet… where does it come from and where does it go? The process of deer shedding velvet is widely misunderstood but very important if you want to understand the antler growth cycle and get the most out of your bucks.
Not all deer have antlers, but in some species the females as well as the males grow them.
Antlers are the defining feature of whitetail deer, symbols of power and virility that have attracted hunters for millennia.