Deer Hunting

News & Tips: Favorite Food Plots: Late Spring Seed
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Favorite Food Plots: Late Spring Seed

April 20, 2013
Food plots will not only improve the health of your deer herd, they'll also increase your hunting success in the fall. Once you've chosen a spot, cleared the ground, applied lime and fertilizer and…
News & Tips: Choosing Food Plot Forages
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Choosing Food Plot Forages

April 17, 2013
Forage is a crop grown for an animal; in the food plot business it is a crop grown for white-tailed deer. Twenty years ago, purchasing food plot seed was simple. There was clover and there was —…
News & Tips: 30-30: America's First Deer Cartridge
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30-30: America's First Deer Cartridge

April 10, 2013
Perhaps, no cartridge in history has accounted for as many deer as the grand old man of deer cartridges, the 30-30. Introduced in 1895, it was originally deemed the 30 WCF, and first chambered for…
News & Tips: Food Plot Basics: It's All in the Dirt...
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Food Plot Basics: It's All in the Dirt

April 4, 2013
Seems like everyone is planting food plots these days; and for good reason. Wildlife of all kind benefit from them and they make for great deer hunting. Food plotters spend endless hours pouring over…
News & Tips: Deer Love Apples - Maintaining Tree Plots...
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Deer Love Apples - Maintaining Tree Plots

April 1, 2013
Deer Love Apples - Time to Prune Fruit Trees Hunters are always looking for that secret spot where deer come into range. More and more hunters are planting tree plots for this purpose. With a little…
News & Tips: Frost Seeding: An Early Spring Food Plot Fixer...
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Frost Seeding: An Early Spring Food Plot Fixer

March 28, 2013
Early season food plots start out like this... Looking for a simple way to plant food plots? Want to plant food plots but don't own farming equipment? Notice some bare spots in last year's plots but…
News & Tips: The Case for Professional Butchering
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The Case for Professional Butchering

March 26, 2013
I've gutted my fair share of deer, moose and bears over the years, and I've also skinned a few along the way. But when it comes to butchering that tasty game meat, I want to make sure that I get all…
News & Tips: How to Create a Mineral Lick for Deer
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How to Create a Mineral Lick for Deer

March 23, 2013
With deer seasons closed, there are lots of habitat alterations you can make that will improve the health of the whitetail herd in your area. One of the easiest and most rewarding is to create a…
News & Tips: Evolution of a Hunter
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Evolution of a Hunter

March 21, 2013
I would have never thought that on Dec. 26, of all days, I would come face to face with my nemesis. The buck I'd been hunting for the last 90 days shows up at one o’clock in the afternoon, broadside…
News & Tips: Think Spring, Think Food Plots
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Think Spring, Think Food Plots

March 20, 2013
With spring on its way it's time to begin thinking about planting food plots. Food plots provide deer and other wildlife with excellent nutrition and lots of it. Most wildlife experts would like to…
News & Tips: Favorite Food Plots: Best Deer Planting for Early Spring...
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Favorite Food Plots: Best Deer Planting for Early Spring

March 16, 2013
When bass fishing legend Ray Scott began experimenting with seeds to improve the health and antler growth of the deer on his property many years ago, his efforts took him ultimately to one type of…
News & Tips: Tips for Better Fruit Trees & Shrubs
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Tips for Better Fruit Trees & Shrubs

March 2, 2013
Once you've identified and mapped out where your best shrubs and fruit trees are on your property, here are five quick ways to enhance their value to deer and other wildlife. Add daylight.  Areas…