Deer

How To Successfully Hunt Your Property

I’ve been asked how I kept that 6-1/2-year-old buck on my land for that amount of time to grow. To start with, we don’t overpressure our deer, and we only hunt when the odds are the most in our favor to take the buck we want to harvest. Another secret is that we do everything we can to prevent deer from knowing that we’re hunting them, including the approach we take to and from the

Deer, Land Management, How-To

Reconsider Hunting Public Lands

Private-land hunters are taking a tremendous amount of pressure off public lands, and this factor may be the reason we’re starting to see some really-nice bucks coming off New York’s public lands. I just learned recently that there’s much more public land in the State of New York than I ever realized. That’s the reason our family is starting to look into how much public land is available to be hunted.

Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Bow, Firearm

Rochelle LeClaire Makes Time for Hunting for Her Family

Rochelle LeClaire lives in Schaghticoke, New York, in eastern New York, and has been a member of the Mossy Oak ProStaff for five years. She hunted with her dad, grandfather and brother, until she was old enough to get a hunting license. Although married and with two small children, Rachelle hunts as often as possible and enjoys preparing and eating wild game.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow, Firearm

Public and Private Land Hunting in Pennsylvania

In the past, finding a place to hunt where you didn’t see a large group of other hunters was an issue in Pennsylvania. But if the hunters will spend more time and do more research, they can pinpoint places now where there’s less hunting pressure and more deer, and the odds of taking an older-age-class buck are much better.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

Pennsylvania Deer Hunting Restrictions Has Its Pros and Cons

The biggest buck I've ever taken in Pennsylvania scored about 130 inches. Back when I took that buck, he was considered a trophy buck. Today however, because of Pennsylvania’s antler restrictions and liberal un-antlered season, we’re seeing much bigger bucks in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Deer Hunting Seasons

Before Pennsylvania’s legalization of crossbow hunting during deer bow season, I could hunt public state game lands and only see one to three bowhunters during the entire bow season for deer. But since crossbows were legalized for hunting deer, I see many more hunters during bow season than I’ve ever seen before. However, even with the legalization of crossbows, I still see fewer deer hunters during archery season than I do during gun/deer season.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

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