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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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Problems Following Blood Trails in the Heat

I'm often asked, “If you arrow a deer in really-hot weather (90 to over 100 degrees), how do you follow the blood trail through thick foliage?” This is a really good question. As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’ll often be hunting over a persimmon tree or muscadine vines out in a pine plantation. Not only does the deer’s blood dry quickly in the hot weather, but it often falls through the pine needles.

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Hot Weather Mosquitoes and Velvet-Antlered Bucks

I hunt in Zone 6 in the lower part of the state during South Carolina’s early deer season. Our season comes in August 15 and runs through January 1 for archery on private lands, where we have an opportunity to take velvet-antlered bucks. The weather is scorching hot at that time of the year. When you add a high heat index with high humidity, the weather is tough on the deer as well as the

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Parrey Cremeans’ Biggest Columbian Black-Tailed Buck - Maybe

I took a monster Columbian back-tailed deer that scored 198 4/8-inches - probably one of the most blessed days of hunting I’d ever had. I was hunting in a place where I’d pretty much hunted my entire life, and I’d harvested nice deer in this area previously. But, I never had seen this buck until the day I took him. I spotted the buck, stalked him close, got a shot with my bow and never

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Doubling Up on Elk and Black-tailed Buck

If someone fills his tag on either the first or the second day of the hunt, both California and Oregon have some over-the-counter deer tags. On some of these tags, you can hunt Columbian black-tailed deer as well as mule deer, especially in Oregon. The eastern side of Oregon also offers some whitetail deer tags. In California, the only over-the-counter tags for deer are for blacktails.

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3 Ways to Quietly Enter and Exit Your Hunting Stand

Stand approach is extremely important. If not executed properly, you can destroy all chances before you ever make it to your tree stand or blind. However, getting there is only half the battle. You also need to retreat out of your area without bumping animals.

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Cut the Grass and Use M.E.E.N. Green Fertilizer

About all outdoorsmen have things they’d rather do on weekends than mow the grass on green fields planted for wildlife to increase the amount of food to make deer and turkeys easier to find and take. But in most sections of the country, except for the far north, most wildlife managers already have started mowing their green fields before June.

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How to Save Money and Grow Bigger Deer

Two of the most-overlooked aspects of wildlife management are the importance of spraying herbicides to kill grasses and weeds in green fields and mowing. According to Austin Delano, head of research and development for Mossy Oak BioLogic, after the seeds are in the ground, most hunters walk away and expect to come back just before bow season starts to a lush green food plot. Food-plot management at different times of the year depends primarily on

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Grow Bigger Bucks and Increase Fawn Survival

If you haven’t already done so, now is the time to get some warm season annuals planted for your deer herd. Bucks are in the antler growing process as well as packing on weight as they mature. Having a high protein food source this time of year is just as important for your doe as well.

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Nicole Reeve Tells Us Change Is Coming

The 2014/2015 was a crazy year for Pat and me both. We went to Alberta. As you read last week, Pat took a really-nice Shiras moose there. I wasn’t able to go on some of the hunts that Pat went on this year, because I was expecting a new little one. I had to stay behind on some of the hunts, but I was able to do some really-cool hunts. I went to Montana elk

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Pat Reeve and His Iowa Whitetail

In 2014, Nicole and I both drew Iowa late season muzzleloader whitetail deer tags for the southeastern zone of the state. We hunted out of Wingover Ranch, an area we’d hunted the previous year during the late muzzleloader season. I was fortunate enough then to take a whitetail buck that scored 180 points Boone & Crockett.

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Pat Reeve Takes a Big Canadian Whitetail in Alberta

My son Carson took three animals this year, and Nicole reminded me of how much fun we had on those hunts. We really enjoy hunting with our children, and those are probably the most-memorable hunts all year, every year.

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Pat Reeve on His Most Memorable Hunts

Mossy Oak pros Pat Reeve and his wife Nicole have hosted “Driven with Pat and Nicole,” a TV show on the Outdoor Channel for the past 10 seasons. The biggest news from Pat and Nicole is that during the 2014-2015 season Nicole was with child.

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Pass It On: It All Comes Together

As I’ve mentioned in my other “Pass It On” articles, sharing time in the field with new hunters is a very rewarding experience. It’s a time to share your love and knowledge of the outdoors with them and make some wonderful memories in the process. However, there will come a time when you have to let them step out on their own. I think this is best done in controlled circumstances that give them some

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Brian Hicks Hunts for the Bucks That Most Public Land Hunters Never See

In the fall, before the season begins, usually in September or October, I’ll plant oats, clover, chicory and Mossy Oak BioLogic. Before that, during the spring and fall, I’ll spend a lot of time checking my trail cameras and watching the bucks’ antlers grow. I want to try to stay in contact with the mature bucks I’ve found and the sheds I’ve located after the season.

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Brian Hicks on Using Hunting Pressure to Your Advantage on Public Lands

I like to know where everyone on public lands will be hunting each day of deer season. Although I can’t always know where everyone is hunting, I've been able to identify some places where hardly anyone hunts. I also like to know where the other hunters are, so I can hunt safely.

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