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Simple Food Plot Sizes and Forage Choices
If you can only plant food plots of an acre or less, put half in clover for warm-season feed and half into a cereal grain such as oats, brassica or winter wheat, or a tuber, such as radishes or...
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How Many Deer Will Die From Winter Weather?
Will these sub-zero temperatures kill off our deer herds? How much snow pack do we have to receive until it affects the deer population? And just how many deer will die this winter as a result of...
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2017 Backstrap Boogie Throttles On!
Did I say HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 loud enough for ya all!!! Well Happy Happy New Year 2017 again to you all! Hunting all the time is about as cool as it gets. I certainly know what a very lucky man I am...
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Destination Whitetail: Auburn University’s Deer Lab
Come along for a behind-the-scenes look at one of the country’s top wildlife biology programs. Students of the DeerLab at Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences in east-central...
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My Mystical Flight Life as a Bloodbrother
My whole life flashed before me in a heartbeat. Amazing how such an outrageous 68 year adventure can be encapsulated in the instantaneous flash of the mystical flight of an arrow, but somehow, it...
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Antlered Doe? The Odds are Highly Unlikely
How common are antlered does in the whitetail society? Unlikely. Yet, we hear of reports each year during gun season where hunters shoot large-bodied, antlered deer that are reported as females. In...
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What’s the Deal With Bucks Shedding Antlers Early?
If you’ve noticed that some bucks seem to be casting their antlers early this year, you’re not wrong. “The overall health of the buck affects when it casts its antlers,” said Dr. Grant Woods, a deer...
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Pesky Neighbors Don’t Stop Hunter from Getting His Dream Buck
If you’re like most of us, you’ve got neighbors, and sometimes they can try your patience. Deer hunter Shawn Kelley had to overcome some pesky neighbors to get a buck of a lifetime. “A couple weeks...
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A New Dawn For American Sporters
Today will be my 68th January 19. And what a glorious one I predict! I carpe diem like I mean it every day, celebrating and milking to the max every breath I take, every move I make, every step I...
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EXCLUSIVE: Peak 2016 Rut Forecast for Southern Deer Hunters
Christmas lights were the only glow during the dark early morning drive to the stand. Growing up in the Northeast, it seemed odd to be so excited about deer hunting at this time of year. My entire...
View ArticleAfter Heartbreaking Miss, Bowhunter Evens Score with Giant Buck
Consider all of the stories you’ve heard about deer hunters killing giant, mature white-tailed bucks. These success stories typically involve surprise encounters with deer that had never been seen...
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Simple Food Plot Sizes and Forage Choices
If you can only plant food plots of an acre or less, put half in clover for warm-season feed and half into a cereal grain such as oats, brassica or winter wheat, or a tuber, such as radishes or...
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After Heartbreaking Miss, Bowhunter Evens Score with Giant Buck
Consider all of the stories you’ve heard about deer hunters killing giant, mature white-tailed bucks. These success stories typically involve surprise encounters with deer that had never been seen...
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Grateful to God, and I Love This Country!
Have you ever had the good fortune to be able to fly over all 50 of our beloved United States in a small airplane with a clear, unobstructed eagle’s eye view of this phenomenal place we call America?...
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Why Does This State Have Multiple Rut Periods?
The rut is one of the most anticipated times of the hunting season in Alabama. However, the timing of this can vary greatly depending on where you hunt within the state. Generally speaking, this...
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Predator Bonus: On a Sweltering Summer Hunt, Lil’ Brother Makes a Crack Shot
My brother and I are different, not unlike many other brothers who have different careers and interests. He’s a high school math teacher and excelled in school. I hated math and muddled through. He’s...
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How to Use the Video Advantage During the Rut
There are not many things better than to check a trail camera during the rut. The anticipation of what is on the camera and how many bucks are coming through during shooting hours is crazy. By Jeremy...
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HEAL THY BROTHER
Six-year-old Macon Lynn struggled to walk to the archery range. After a year of chemotherapy and tortuous radiation to treat his agonizing cancer, the little guy had to give all his fragile body could...
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Bypassing Bucks: Can You Manage Genetics Through Selective Harvest?
It’s a calm, cold winter afternoon just before dark and you’re in the stand, sitting exactly where you want to be during the peak of the whitetail rut. Just upwind of you is a lush food plot that is...
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Big Bucks: The Treasure of Junkyard
Sometimes you get but one chance at the buck of a lifetime. Other times, the deer comes back … and back … and back. When Doug Knott and his son Tyler of Blakesburg, Iowa, first saw the whitetail they...
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