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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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Bowhunting Whitetails on the Open Prairie

I moved to North Dakota 24 years ago from southeast Ohio. I had grown up hunting hills and hardwoods. The open farm and ranch land of North Dakota presented a whole new challenge. I knew there were big deer here, but I wasn’t sure how to go about hunting them. I had to learn to think like a prairie whitetail.

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New Hampshire’s Josh Wade Hunts Deer Out of State

Coming from New Hampshire, I always wanted to believe that other states had more deer than we did in New Hampshire. On many of the outdoor shows on TV, the host might see three or four bucks in a day or maybe five or six does. I wanted to see if there was that type of deer hunting available in other states, because I could hunt hard and not see a deer in 2 weeks

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Hunting Deer When They’re Hard to Find

Josh Wade from Charlestown, New Hampshire, has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 7 years and been hunting whitetail for 18 years with a bow, a rifle and a blackpowder gun. “Here in New Hampshire we don’t have many deer, so we primarily have to hunt states like Missouri, where we can hunt in all three seasons.”

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Remembering How Brent Lafreniere’s Bowhunting Career for Deer Began

I started shooting a bow when I was very young and began hunting with a bow when I was 13. I’d gotten my hunting license when I was 12, so the first deer season when I was actually able to hunt with a bow was when I was 13. I took my first doe with a bow when I was 14 in 1998, and my first buck with a bow in 2001 when I was

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Understanding Brent Lafreniere’s Technique for Hunting Public Lands

I first started traveling to other states to hunt when I was in high school. My dad used to go to Pennsylvania with some friends of his to hunt Pennsylvania’s early bow season. A few years after he started going to Pennsylvania, he’d get me out of school on Thursday, we’d drive to Pennsylvania and bowhunt the rest of Thursday, Friday and Saturday. At that time, Pennsylvania’s early bow season would start when Vermont’s season

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More Food and Cover the Easy Way

Winter is the perfect time to add extra browse to your property by hinge-cutting (also known as half-cutting) select trees, or simply felling trees you need to take down. Browse consists of the leaves, buds, stems and twigs of woody deciduous trees and shrubs, but they may also choose conifers such as cedar or white pine. It’s very intriguing because even if they have ample quality foods available, for some reason they still need this

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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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