The Most Important Thing You Forget About Making Mock Scrapes
If you’re making mock scrapes for hunting or your game cameras, one of the most important things to remember is the overhead licking branch. I’ve created mock scrapes for the last few years after...
View ArticleThe 2nd Amendment Has Nothing To Do With Hunting
Some hunters prefer a specific caliber for long-range shots such as out west for mule deer or whitetails. As we jettison passionately into making this New Year 2016 the best year of our lives, we must...
View ArticleMonster Buck Hit, Killed But Will Make Your Eyes Pop!
This giant buck was hit by a truck in Alabama. Whoa! Check out this genuine monster buck killed when it was hit by a truck in Alabama, which is unfortunate of course but sometimes that happens when...
View ArticleNever Give Up, Never Give In, Never Back Down
Deerhunting surely represents one of life’s greatest challenges. In fact, more than just a sporting challenge, my lifetime of gungho deerhunting proves beyond a shadow of a doubt to this old...
View ArticleIt’s Trade Show Season, With All the Hot Deer Gear
When the trade show “season” gets rolling, views like this are common for folks in the hunting industry more accustomed to woods, camo and whitetails. This is one of the craziest times of the year for...
View ArticleUnited We Learn, Divided We Get Skunked
I have a funny feeling that if I just hunted all by myself, never bothered to share stories or ideas, didn’t spend time with other hunters in camp, did not write these deeranddeerhunting.com NugeBlogs...
View ArticleBest Tips for Trail Cameras: Time to See What Survived the Season
When deer season ends, don’t despair. Get into the woods to scout and use your game cameras for surveying does and bucks to see what survived the season. The inevitable time is here, the end of deer...
View ArticlePretty Cool Video: Deer Hunting With a 10mm Handgun
Handgun hunting for deer is fun, challenging and we hear about more hunters picking up a handgun each year. Hunting with revolvers has been a favorite for many years. Whether it’s a Smith & Wesson...
View ArticleThe Anti-Science Deer Team Are Amongst Us
Ted enjoys great company when possible, such as hunting with Kai Buckert at Wexford Hunting in south Texas. Not every buck is a rack-monster “wall hanger,” either! I hunt daily. I get skunked most...
View ArticleNortheast Wyoming Offers Some of the Best Deer Hunting in the West
Learn more about whitetail deer and deer hunting opportunities at Trophy Ridge Outfitters of Carlile, Wyoming. Ralph Dampman, who guides for deer, elk, antelope, turkey and mountain lions, explains...
View ArticleHealthy Hunter: Season Was Easier Thanks to Fitness
Alabama’s north zone season ended Jan. 31 and after more than three months, preceded by late summer work, I was glad to see the sun set on yet another hunting season. It wasn’t great from the...
View ArticleI Got Terminal Backstrap Fever and I Like It
Be it known by all deerhunters everywhere that we do indeed have our own deerhunting soundtrack. Sing it like ya mean it; backstrap fever, na na na, backstrap fever a na na na!” Catchy little ditty...
View ArticleWhitetail Antlers: The Hole Truth
Have you ever seen a whitetail rack that has a hole in it similar to the one in this photo? When Deer & Deer Hunting forum contributor Mark Schrock shared this photo of a buck he killed, the first...
View ArticleFilming a Hunt Is the Hardest Hunt of All
Lights! Camera! Action! And presto! We have instant hunting television at its finest! Cue the broadside Booner, wait for that perfect sunray light, get that handsome bowhunter stud all groomed and...
View ArticleWith Justice Scalia’s Death, Hunters Lose an Advocate
Among the myriad complexities surrounding the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, way down on the list is the loss of a bonafide advocate for hunting, fishing and the outdoors. Scalia, 79,...
View ArticleLumpy Jaw is a Common Oddity Among Deer
Each year, the Deer & Deer Hunting editorial offices receive hundreds of inquiries from hunters who have shot wild, weird and downright wacky-looking whitetails. In all of the years I’ve helped...
View ArticleSee All, Know All, Love All, Live All, Share All
I’ve said it before and it is worth repeating often; Man does not live by backstraps alone. It may be difficult to believe such a statement from a guy whose entire life is clearly dedicated to if not...
View ArticleWhy Do Some Bucks Grow Three Beams?
The biggest deer in the woods are often the result of great genetics and good deer feed, but there are exceptions. Take, for example, the case of this triple-beamed buck. My friend and DDH field...
View ArticleOhio Deer Hunter Might Have the Coolest Spouse Ever
OK, guys and gals: Brace yourself for one of the craziest photos and coolest stories we’ve seen in a while. Deer & Deer Hunting fan Jarad Martin sent us this photo of his buddy Mike Behrmann back...
View ArticleHappy 75th Anniversary, Wisconsin Bowhunters Association
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, there were bowhunters before Ted Nugent discovered the mystical flight of the soul-cleansing arrow! And you thought I was old! Sure, prehistoric man...
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