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Outdoors people across the world are aspiring to become conservationists, satisfied more by creating and providing habitat for wildlife than hunting. The harvest of wildlife is and always will be a highlight, but it’s more a part of the whole.

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Reasons To Feed Late Season Whitetails

Hunters more than anybody realize how tough the late winter can be for whitetails. Deer in the upper Midwest, northern states, and Canada, can have massive amounts of snowfall to try and navigate through and are often forced to exert a lot of energy to find whatever food is available. Reliable food sources are few and far between and many deer consume a lot of low quality, hard to digest, woody brush in the late

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Food Plots and Feeders

Insufficient nutrition levels can lead to weight loss, poor conception rates, lower fawn recruitment, and increased vulnerability to disease…and where it counts too many gamekeepers - poor antler development and increased mortality rates. In areas where it is legal, it is wise to supplement your herd’s diet with a quality protein feed.

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Why Late Season Brassica Food Plots are Effective

When it comes to whitetails, this time of year is all about perpetuation of the species and putting on enough weight and fat to survive the winter. Even though bucks cut their food intake for a period surrounding the peak of breeding, does continue “putting on the feed bag” throughout the fall months and into early winter and as soon as breeding is finished a buck’s sole goal will return to filling his gut. So

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Backtracking Bucks

Years ago hunters used to need to read sign in the form of tracks, rubs or scrapes. A skiff of snow made fresh sign obvious, but now-days we have trail cameras to simplify matters. Obviously you need to get an initial photo of the buck. Then you use your best guess and keep your cameras moving until you see where the buck is coming from.

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3 Times To Watch For Buck Movement

With the hectic pace of life these days many hunters need to maximize their time afield. Even if we could hunt whenever we would like, you still want to make sure the odds are in your favor. If the rut is still happening your chances are good anytime, but following are the three best late season times/conditions to concentrate your efforts when after a mature buck.

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The Magic of Chestnuts

With 4 times the amount of carbohydrates and over twice the protein of white oak acorns, chestnuts are a great food source and the deer never fail to find them. We sometimes forget that at one time chestnut trees made up the majority of the American forests and the nuts covered by the unmistakable spiny hulls were likely whitetails most consistent and preferred food source before the blight killed most all chestnut trees.

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