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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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Herd Management Tip: The “Hit List”

Like most aspects of managing wildlife, having a plan will help you to make smart, accurate assessments. Herd management decisions can often have the biggest impact on the amount and size of the bucks you have to hunt. Killing the right deer and the correct amount of specific deer will have a huge impact on the density, buck to doe ratio and age structure of a herd. Often referred to as “trigger finger management,” it’s

Big Game, Deer, Conservation

Learning To Be A Stupid Hunter

Trail cameras are arguably the “coolest tool” to hit the hunting industry in the past 20 years. However, in a way they may be building a generation of dumb hunters. In a recent thread on a hunting forum, a young hunter had arrowed back to back trophy bucks. Others were asking him questions about how he got close and the signs he used to determine his ambush site and this young hunter didn’t know what

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The Tally Of Bone

Oh man…can you feel it? It’s almost here! Hunting season will be here within a few weeks. Now is the time to figure out what you’ll be up against in your hunting area. The Drury’s call it “taking a buck census.” They use two important tools to find and document every buck within their hunting areas. You’ll need a reliable, quiet, infrared trail camera and a BIOROCK.

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ScoutLook® DeerLog™ is the Ultimate Deer Management System for Outfitters and Landowners

ScoutLook’s new DeerLog app is a full service Smartphone app for logging deer observations and capturing weather, wind direction, barometric pressure, solunar times and more automatically. This one-of-a-kind app is the ultimate deer management system for outfitters and landowners.

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Fall Food Plots: Controlling Access

When it comes to bow hunting, a few feet can be the difference in getting a shot or going home disappointed. We've all spent countless hours preparing a stand and planting food plots only to have that mature buck or doe walk just out of our effective bow range. Most everyone is familiar with using the P2 PLOT PROTECTOR KIT to keep deer out of your summertime plots until they have enough growth, but it

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Mossy Oak® Joins ScoutLook® to Offer Smartphone App for Deer Hunters

Mossy Oak, along with North American Hunter, has partnered with ScoutLook weather to bring deer hunters a full service Smartphone app for tracking deer, weather, wind direction, barometric pressure, solunar times and more.

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Beating The Drought: Supplemental Feed

Many sections of the country have experience moderate to extreme drought this summer. Day time temperatures over 100 degrees have been common this year in many places, and not just the south. With the scorching temps and lack of rain, warm season food plots as well as perennials can really take a hit and you may lose a crop. If you are not already using supplemental feed on your property, now is a good time

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Imagine you had two buck fawns with equal genetic traits. If one buck fawn starts life in good standing with ample nutrition and low stress but the other doesn’t have those benefits, as an adult the fawn that started off well will always have the potential for a better set of antlers - even if they eventually live on the same property. A good start is very important to a whitetail’s life.

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What Does A Shed Tell You?

One of the most rewarding activities of being a GameKeeper is picking up sheds on the ground you manage. Walking your property, you may find sheds off of bucks you were happy to see made it through the season and have a history with, as well as some sheds off of deer that you didn't know existed much less used your property. Mature bucks can be hard to find late in the year and always

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Healthy Soil, Healthy Antlers

Food plot farmers are different than cash-crop farmers in several ways. A cash-crop farmer wants the most out of their crop and will usually work their fields under during the fall, after they've been harvested. Since food plot farmers are most concerned about the wildlife we usually leave our crops sit through the winter.

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Holiday Hunts and Dream Deer

Can I shoot him? Can I shoot him now? my niece Shannon pleaded. We'd been waiting for what seemed to be two lifetimes for the 40 deer between us and the buck we'd picked-out for Shannon to take to move out from in front of that big 8 point. Not yet. There's still one more doe in front of him, I whispered. Finally, the doe moved away, and Shannon had the opportunity to take the

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Hot Topic: New Light on Button Buck Harvest

“Most hunting clubs and landowners can't manage their deer herds properly because they have made button bucks sacred cows," says Corky Pugh, chief of the Wildlife Section of Alabama's Department of Conservation. Many hunters have become so afraid of shooting button bucks that they won't take the number of does they need to harvest to keep their herds healthy. In hunting clubs, sportsmen often face severe penalties if they mistakenly shoot button bucks instead of

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Bowshots at Whitetails

Maybe 90-percent of the reasons why good bowhunters don’t take a deer is due to the noise factor. To learn how much noise you’re making: Oil and grease your tree stand. Then climb in that stand. Next move around in it to make sure it doesn’t squeak when a deer’s in close, and you’re ready to take the shot.

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Mark Drury’s Top 10 Pre-Season Scouting Tips

Mark Drury of Osceola, Iowa, the founder of MAD Calls, the co-owner of Drury Outdoor Productions with his brother Terry and a long-time avid deer hunter, is a dyed-in-the-wool Mossy Oak enthusiast. Each year, Drury hunts in several states and consistently takes big bucks for his videos. But how does anyone take big bucks regularly? Drury explains how starting early and using new technology helps him find bucks, learn their haunts and habits and determine

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Whitetail Food Plots Summer and Fall

Now is the time to apply herbicide to a perennial clover plot, like a juicy field of Biologic Clover Plus. You’ll get much-more production out of your clover throughout the summer and into the fall by doing some maintenance right now. During May and June, clover fields often will have a good crop of grasses growing in them, especially if these clover fields have been planted with any type of cereal grain, like wheat, oats

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