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- … family land in Kentucky. The first day we arrived for our hunt, the weather was between 90 and 100 degrees. The second … dropped down 30-degrees from the first day of the hunt to between the high 50s and low 60s. My experience has … had all the elements come together to produce a great deer hunt. The deer could bed above us, come down the finger of …
- … have on their first visit to a farm. All landowners who hunt want to know how their whitetail deer herd is doing, so … ratios. Gamekeepers are often surprised at the number of does that their property actually holds. It is not uncommon to see buck-to-doe ratios of one buck to 10 does on property that seemed less dominated by does. Changes …
- … quiver…and you can’t eat biscuits and gravy, but it does eliminate the problem of the deer being out of range. … works well when the rut is approaching. It concentrates does to the highly palatable food source thus attracting cruising bucks. Probably my most memorable hunt in one of these small food plots occurred last year just …
- … W (Bill) Gabbard From targets to T-Rex, the one round that does it all, the 6.5 Creedmoor. The latest greatest unnecessary round that does nothing that can’t be done better by something else - … groups of less than 0.50 inch while Hornady’s 140 ELD-M does the same in stock rifles. Hornady’s 130 ELD-M had a …
- … no matter how experienced of a hunter you are. And when it does happen, you should take it with a grain of salt. … steal your confidence. After missing that buck, I didn’t hunt for several days. I felt I wasn’t deserving of hunting … again – and accept that a miss or two will happen if you hunt for long enough. As long as missing a deer isn’t …
- … timber, but it’s too open. Without brush and trees, only does and young bucks will likely use it during daylight. Put … feet tall, providing great cover for both mature bucks and does which will draw in those bucks. You can plant these by … narrow fields is an excellent strategy. I prefer not to hunt these warm season grass fields. Their best use is to …
- … in the snow in Iowa during early May. Typically, we only hunt turkeys in the snow during the fall, but for several … years, our area has had a late snow. We have had to hunt turkeys in the snow in the spring. The turkeys don’t … do when there is no snow on the ground. The weather just does not seem to affect them that much. The only problem we …
- … clash of cymbals as crows caw-caw draws another reply, as does the high brass horn of a howling coyote. That’s a … waiting for the starting gun to go off and when it does, they explode. Imagine yourself watching a suspenseful … get laryngitis. Still, the sharp, high-pitched call does sometimes get a reaction, perhaps partly because it …
- … dawdle on his way back to his bedding site in the morning? Does he like to get up midday and take a stroll around his …
- … into different stands you have around the field. Not only does it make a great way to hide your entrance, but you can … can be taxing on a whitetail’s body. Bucks are chasing does and fighting, does are constantly running from bucks, and they are all on …
