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DEER SEASON, DONE RIGHT.

Before you head into the whitetail woods, browse our extensive collection of deer hunting videos and articles. For beginners and experts alike. From thrilling hunts to helpful hints, there’s always something to learn from watching the country’s top whitetail hunters ply their craft — and whole a lot to enjoy.

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GameKeepers Can’t Overlook the Importance of Water for Deer

As GameKeepers, we often emphasize planting and habitat management, but we can’t forget the importance of having plenty of water on the property we’re managing for deer and turkeys. Although wildlife gets much of its water from the foods they eat, in drought conditions, the deer can become very stressed or may have to travel long distances for water.

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Establish a Deer Management Plan as a Team

Managing deer hunting pressure on your land is key to the number of bucks you can hold on your property, no matter how large or how small the land is. If we identify a buck we’d like to take in a certain part of our property, we don’t hunt that buck except when the wind, the weather and the hunting conditions provide us with the best opportunity to see and take that buck.

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Venison Steak and Eggs

This simple recipe is quick and delicious. Sometimes food is most enjoyable when you leave it be. All you need is venison steak and eggs. The important step in this venison recipe is making sure you don’t overcook the meat. Serve with toast or grilled vegetables and you have a high protein, great tasting meal.

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Make the Most of Deer Management with Hunting Rules

Regardless of how much habitat you provide and food you plant to improve the wildlife on your property, without a reasonable set of rules around access to the land, management and harvesting, you won’t have the success you’ve hoped to get. All of us who hunt the land believe that what you put into the land is what you’ll get out of it.

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You Can Grow Bigger Deer Through Management

My family and I can attest that managing your property can absolutely improve your hunting. When I first started hunting these two, 150-acre farms, I might see one to three bucks per year, all year, on both properties. The bucks we spotted back then didn’t have brow tines for some reason. The farm we leased wasn’t producing any bucks bigger than a basket rack. Today, the bucks we harvest on that leased farm score between

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Planting Food Plots on Smaller Properties

Many people believe that to be a GameKeeper you need a lot of land. But for the last 15 years, my family and I have been involved in planting food for wildlife and improving habitat on two 150-acre properties. We try to do as much as possible to improve the habitat, including creating cover for deer bedding areas, making sure the deer have plenty of water and providing more food. However, providing more food is

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Building Relationships Through Deer Hunting

I’ve been fortunate enough to make friends in various states who allow me to come to their states to hunt with them. Generally I’ll have places to stay and eat, too, besides lands to hunt. Some of the relationships I have with hunters in other states have taken years to develop. All the people I hunt with when I travel are friends.

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Alabama’s Late Deer Season Changes the Hunt and the Hunter

Since Alabama has lengthened its deer season until February 10, hunters in south Alabama are seeing sights they’ve never seen previously. I’m seeing bucks 3-1/2 to 5-1/2-years old with their noses to the ground, trailing does and actively chasing them. I believe our south Alabama rut even may go past February 10. However, if the state legalized deer hunting past February 10, the deer hunters would interfere with the small game hunters, and the woods

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February Deer Hunting Season in Alabama Produces Bigger Bucks

Up until the State of Alabama initiated a February deer hunting season, our deer hunting in south Alabama was destitute. Once deer season went out each year on January 31, I was just beginning to see pre-rut activity with scrapes and rubs starting to appear in south Alabama. The chasing of does I observed was only being participated in by 1-1/2 and 2-year-old bucks. We rarely if ever spotted bucks 3-5 years old in south

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Mossy Oak Proudly Offers No. 1 Deer, Turkey and Waterfowl Patterns

Mossy Oak is proud to offer the best camo patterns for deer, turkey and waterfowl hunting. These no. 1 patterns are Break-Up Country , Obsession and Shadow Grass Blades . According to Southwick Associates’ Annual Hunt-Shoot Report, Deer Hunter, Mossy Oak’s Break-Up Country is America’s no. 1 camo pattern for deer hunting for three years running. Break-Up Country offers incredible effectiveness for concealing hunters in all types of terrain where deer reside. In addition, Mossy

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Late-Season Deer Rut Means February Deer Hunting in Alabama

In south Alabama, where I live and hunt, we have a deer season that extends into February. We’re also seeing some other southern states like Florida and Louisiana lengthening their deer seasons into February. The first Alabama counties to have a February deer season were primarily the south Alabama counties below Montgomery, which is in the central section of the state. Many of the people in south Alabama had been telling wildlife biologists that the

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Ups and Downs of Being a Professional Hunter

Many sportsmen who watch our show and others on TV may think that every time we leave home, that the first day we get to where we’re hunting, we can take a big buck within 20-25 minutes after we arrive. But that idea is simply not true. I had to spend two weeks on two different trips to Saskatchewan in 2017 to harvest that 160-class buck.

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My Biggest Saskatchewan Buck in 2017

I was asked about the biggest deer I took during 2017 that hadn’t lived on my property. I took a 160-class buck with my bow in Saskatchewan, Canada. Nicole and I hunt Saskatchewan every year, and I’ve been going with Buck Country Outfitters in northern Saskatchewan for 12 years. We hunt there in the northern forests where the bucks have chances to get some age on them, since they don’t have much hunting pressure. These

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Venison and Bacon Cheeseburger Soup

Here is a recipe that takes little to no time to make and best part is its ready when you get home from a long day hunting. (Bonus your house smells amazing all day long!)

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Manage Bedding Areas and Buck-to-Doe Ratio for Better Hunting

Pat Reeve | Mossy Oak ProStaff Besides food, water and sanctuary, I provide bedding cover for the deer living on my property on south-facing ridges. We have cold weather all but about three months out of the year in Minnesota. The deer here need sunny weather, although the temperatures may be cold, for them to stay warm. We hinge-cut non-valuable trees on our 500 acres we own to help create thick bedding cover on those

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