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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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Seeing 13 Bucks in 90 Minutes

I've never taken a monster buck in Illinois, but I've taken quite a few bucks that would score 140 in Illinois. The biggest buck I've ever taken in Illinois was the thirteenth buck I had seen on an early-morning hunt. I don’t care who you are or where you hunt. When you see that many nice bucks in a single morning’s hunt, you’ve had a great day, regardless of what happens the rest of the

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Why Kansas Is Ernie Calandrelli’s No. 1 Bowhunting State

All the states I've mentioned – Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New York - have the potential to produce really big bucks in any year. However, I've been most consistently successful in Kansas.

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Ernie Calandrelli Travels for Deer

These states consistently produce good-sized bucks, have quality soil and habitat and plenty of food. Then the bucks living in those states can grow big antlers and have heavy body weights. This old saying is true: “You can’t take a big buck if you're not hunting where big bucks live.”

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Traveling for Bow Season

Ernie Calandrelli of Youngstown, New York, has been hunting deer with a bow for 48 years and is the Public Relations Director for Quaker Boy Calls. He's been wearing Mossy Oak as long as there's been a Mossy Oak and has several different Mossy Oak patterns he wears to match the terrain where he hunts. He’s hunted 37 states, with 14 or 15 of those states for deer. Today, Calandrelli hunts Kansas, Georgia, New York,

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Deer Food Plot Tips: Creating Visual Barriers

Have you ever had a really nice food plot that the deer just didn’t seem to use that much, especially during the daylight? One really easy way to encourage whitetails to use a food source is making them feel safe by planting a food plot screen like BioLogic Blind Spot. The older age class of both bucks and does can be really shy of big, open fields or food plots that are void of close

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Preparing New Property for Big Bucks

More hunters are realizing that you can produce high-quality bucks on small acreages like this new 120 acres I’ve just purchased. Another advantage to this property is that it’s very thick and overgrown without a very good tillage value. So this property is something that most people looking for land won’t buy. However, this past spring, we took three gobblers off the new land.

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Preparation for Bowhunting Deer

At the end of turkey season this year, we started planting every field we have with soybeans and corn in preparation for deer season. We probably have 50 acres of corn and between 100-120 acres of soybeans planted. In March, we planted our BioLogic Clover Plus to make sure that we had plenty of food for both deer and turkeys. We already had some established clover fields, so we top-seeded them for frost seeding. We

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Top 3 Plants for Attracting Whitetails

Perennials such as red and white clovers, chicory and alfalfa are known for providing nutrition for much of the year, and they do. However, they are also excellent attraction for the first part of the hunting season. Make sure to manage your perennials – a mowed and fertilized perennial plot is much more attractive than one that has not been.

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Transitioning from Turkey Season to Deer Season

Probably one of my most memorable hunts this year was a hunt I made with my mom. My dad, Ralph Drury, passed away this year on March 16. All of us in the family wanted to make sure we kept my mom, Lucille Drury, as active as possible. So, I invited my sisters, Barb and Linda, 65 and 66 years old, up to hunt with my brother Terry and me. It was their first-ever turkey

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GameKeeper’s Early Season Advantage

Have you ever had a good buck patterned all summer long, and just needed a killer food plot to hunt over during the early archery season? We’ve all been there, and sometimes our early season food plots are still waiting on some rain to get up and going to have something to hunt over.

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Lynn Worwood Explains Why He’s on the NWTF’s Board of Directors

I like the conservation programs that the NWTF offers. The NWTF is not only about turkeys and turkey hunting, it’s about getting people outdoors and participating in outdoor sports, whether they're shooting 3D archery, shooting at targets with their rifles and shotguns, or going hunting.

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GameKeeper Quick Tip: Leftover Scent & Lures

If you have lures and scent left over from whitetail hunting season that haven’t been opened, they can often be stored until next year. Keep them in a cool, dark place and sometimes they can last several years.

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Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland Joins QDMA Board of Directors

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is pleased to announce that Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland of Mississippi, Senior Vice President of Mossy Oak, has joined its Board of Directors. QDMA members can meet Strickland and welcome him to the organization at the 2017 QDMA National Convention, July 20-23 in New Orleans, where he is a featured speaker.

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Establishing Spring Food Plots

Whitetails love the fresh growth that the woods and thickets explode with during that first few weeks of green up. There is no other time of year when there is such an overwhelming amount of fresh browse from such a variety of plants.

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Managing Whitetails with Minerals

A very simple but favorite management chore of mine in the spring is establishing new mineral sites. The anticipation of what might show up that year as the antlers begin to develop is always super high. I have even found myself in the past few years putting out mineral rocks and supplements in urban landscapes and backyard woodlots just to see what deer frequent the area even though I have no intention of hunting there.

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