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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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Learning about Brent Lafreniere’s Biggest Vermont Buck

My biggest buck was an 8 pointer that weighed 176 pounds, which is a really big whitetail, and it was taken in Vermont in 2010. My Dad and I have 110 acres where we have permission to hunt. In Vermont, if the land isn’t posted and posted correctly, then anyone can hunt on it. We had talked to the landowner and had permission to hunt on this land where I took my biggest buck ever.

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Hunting in Vermont

Brent Lafreniere lives in Williamstown, Vermont, and has been a Vermont resident his entire life. He’s been a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer for 6 years, has hunted deer for 25 years and hunts primarily public lands. Tough winters and a loss of habitat really have impacted the deer population in Vermont.

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Improving the Quality of the Bucks on the Monarch Ranch

The ranch has been working hard to improve the quality of the bucks that it’s producing. Apparently our management system is producing fewer non-typical racks, we’re feeding a lot of protein to the deer, and we've increased the number of does that we have on the property. Primarily in the past, you would see bucks and no does on the Monarch Ranch.

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Calling Deer on a Trophy Whitetail Ranch

When you like to deer hunt as much as I do, being able to see and hunt whitetails as much as you can is a dream come true. As a guide, I don’t carry a gun, but I get to find and call in those big whitetails for the hunters who do carry guns. When my hunter takes that buck of a lifetime, I feel as successful as the man who’s squeezed the trigger, because

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Hunting the Free Ranging Axis Deer, Fallow Deer and Nilgai of Texas

My favorite exotic animal to hunt is the axis deer. I love to bowhunt, but I hunt axis deer with a rifle. I have a friend who has 100 acres in Kerrville, Texas, with low fences. All the exotics that come on his property are free-ranging. One day when I was down there hunting, an axis buck appeared. When I saw the beauty of that animal and took a really-nice axis buck, I became excited

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Les Motheral Hunts Exotics and Monster Whitetails

Most of the exotic animals were brought into the central Hill Country of Texas years ago - many in the early 1930s. Kerrville is more or less the central area where you'll find most of the exotics and also around Junction and south of Austin. In this section of Texas, there’s just about every kind of exotic animal, including fallow deer, axis deer, sika deer, blackbuck antelope and Barbary sheep (aoudad).

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Bucky Hauser’s Best Trophy – A Buck for Tillee

On November 28, 2014, 2 days before Tillee’s, my youngest daughter’s 8th birthday, she and I went deer hunting to try and take Tillee’s first deer. We have 100 acres right behind my house, and that’s where Tillee and I planned to hunt.

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Bucky Hauser’s Big Canada Bow Buck

Every morning while in Canada, I walked those 1-1/2-miles from where I was dropped off to my stand in below-zero weather. One morning a fog came in, and the temperature was so cold that everything that the wet fog touched turned to ice. My bow and all my outer clothing were covered in ice crystals. As I walked to my stand, I could hear deer get up out of their beds in the darkness. The

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Bucky Hauser’s 2015 Big Buck’s Moment Of Truth

Each day when I get to my stand, whether I'm hunting in the morning or the afternoon, I use my range finder to determine the range I am from trees, stumps and bushes that I think a buck may pass by that are within bow range of my stand. So, when this buck stepped out from behind the brush pile, he stepped right in front of a stump I had ranged at 30 yards.

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Bucky Hauser Explains Trophy Deer Hunting

Bucky Hauser from Claudville, Virginia, has been a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer for 9 years but has been wearing Mossy Oak, since the company began in 1986. “My favorite pattern is Mossy Oak Treestand. I like it because it’s an open pattern. When deer season starts in our area, all the leaves are off the trees, and I primarily bowhunt.”

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Tommy Nails’ Buddy Takes a 172-Non-Typical Buck

The first lease that I ever got to hunt deer on, I set-out trail cameras on the property. I had pictures from the summer months of a big, non-typical deer. Also I had pictures of the buck I took that scored 164. The following year, I put one of my buddies on this farm. On opening day of shotgun season, he took that non-typical buck I had pictures that had been taken the year before,

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Taking a 191-Inch Buck with Tommy Nails

I get just as much enjoyment from checking trail cameras and doing trail-camera surveys as I do hunting deer. I didn’t get this particular farm to hunt where I took a huge 191-inch buck until September, 2011. As soon as I got the farm, I put out trail cameras. I placed a lock-on stand and a trail camera close to a scrape on this new property. I didn’t go back to this stand or the

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End-of-the-Season Iowa Deer Hunting

On a perfect year for late-season hunting, I like for the outside temperature to be a high of 32, lows between 13 to 19 degrees at night, and a 3-to-4 inch deep snow on the ground. When the snow is at about that level, the food in the crop fields is almost gone. Under those conditions, I see a lot more activity on my Mossy Oak BioLogic clover field. The deer will come into the

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How to Use Deer Drives to Take More Deer

Deer drives here in Iowa remind me of the old days when we held deer drives in Mississippi. The difference is that in Mississippi, we used dogs and drivers to try and move the deer out of heavy cover. But here in Iowa, a deer drive is only made up of hunters walking through thickets and making noise, attempting to spook the deer out of their bedding sites.

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Hunting Deer in Iowa with Tommy Nails

Tommy Nails of Milton, Iowa, is originally from Corinth, Mississippi, and grew up hunting deer and turkeys in Mississippi. He’s been hunting deer for 30 years. He moved to Iowa about 7 years ago but still travels back and forth to Mississippi during hunting season. After deer hunting Iowa for the first time, his dream was to live there, so he could hunt those big northern deer.

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