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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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In many areas deer won't come to crop fields or green plots until dusk or after dark. Or you may see deer leaving these agricultural areas just at daylight. So putting up a tree stand on the edge of a field may not pay buck dividends. You might need to pinpoint the trails the deer use to come and go and plan an ambush.

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Levi Morgan: Stress Doesn’t Kill – It Helps You to Succeed

I know my tournament experience has made me a better bowhunter. For instance, when I’m down to shooting my last arrow in competition, and that arrow can possibly produce $50,000 for the win, that’s a lot more pressure than I face when I'm in the woods aiming at a big buck. So, tournament archery has helped me develop a way to control my emotions and my nerves. When that one shot can make the difference

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Levi Morgan: Where His Love for Bowhunting Came from and Where He’s Going Now

Although I’ve had an extremely-successful career in tournament archery, most people don’t know where the love of archery came from for me. I was very fortunate that my dad, Mark Morgan, started me hunting when I was just a kid. When I was about 3, I can remember him dragging me through the woods, and I loved every minute of it. When I was 5-years old, Dad started taking me to archery tournaments - and

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Chris Kirby Says If He’s Bored He Starts Calling

Let’s face it, sitting in a tree stand and not seeing any deer can really be boring and cause your mind to wander. Just because you don’t see or hear a deer doesn’t mean there’s not a deer in your area, so I fall back on my turkey-calling tactics. When turkeys aren’t gobbling, I start calling to them, and when there’s a turkey in the area, most of the time he’ll call back. When I

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Why and When Chris Kirby Likes Loud Grunt Calls

The calls that a deer hunter uses are almost always situation-oriented. I like to really blow a grunt call loudly on very-windy days, or when I’m hunting in open hardwoods. For instance, if you’re sitting on your stand, and you draw in your mind a 100-yard circle all the way around your stand, that’s the effective range of most grunt calls.

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Chris Kirby on the Weezzy Snort-Wheeze Call

When the Weezzy Snort-Wheeze call was first introduced to the deer-hunting community, there was quite a bit of skepticism associated with whether or not the Weezzy Snort-Wheeze actually would call in bucks. The Deer Thugs Weezzy is a very simple, uncomplicated call that anyone can use, and it can be deadly effective.

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Learning from a Buck Rub

A buck "rub" is one of the best scouting aids a hunter has to learn about their habits. Sure we have trail cameras, but a hunter should still learn to read physical sign like rubs. The rub is made to mark territory - not only visually, but by scent as well. A buck will rub his forehead and/or preorbital gland on the tree. This tells the other deer in the area exactly which buck made

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Let's Talk Grunt Calls

One of the biggest advantages of the Deer Thugs Brawler from Quaker Boy Calls is you can use it to simply grunt, or you can use it in combination with other calls. When a deer hunter uses deer calls, he becomes an artist rather than a hunter. Deer calls enable a deer hunter to paint a picture in the deer’s mind. The deer hunter becomes an illusionist, causing the deer to think there are other

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Let's Talk Deer Calling

Chris Kirby, the president of Quaker Boy Calls in Orchard Park, New York, is a World Champion turkey caller and has been hunting deer and turkeys all his life. His father, Dick Kirby, founded Quaker Boy Calls, and he and Chris have hunted all over the nation with bows, rifles, pistols and muzzleloaders. Quaker Boy and Mossy Oak have partnered to create the Deer Thugs and Turkey Thugs brands of calls, and a portion of

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Hunting Prairie Dogs at 400 Yards and Whitetails at over 200 Yards with a Handgun

I really enjoy hunting with a pistol and have taken a good number of whitetails with it, as well as bears, elk and mule deer. I've also taken small game with my pistol, including prairie dogs. One of my longest handgun shots I ever made was with a Savage Striker pistol. I took a prairie dog at 400 yards with a .22-250, using Hornady ammunition. My longest big-game shot with a handgun was a whitetail

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Doug Koenig: A Man for All Seasons

I’m often asked, “Doug, how did you get into competitive shooting?” Twenty-seven years ago my father and I decided to buy a handgun, so we went to a local gun shop that did custom work on all types of guns. Several of the people there shot competitively. These folks invited me to come to a local shooting match. After that first competitive shooting match, I was hooked on competitive shooting.

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Terry Drury Tells about High Anticipation Phase of Deer Season

This is the time of year when the mature buck and the seasoned bowhunter start their chess game. The deer will begin moving, but you won’t see as many deer as you do during the Pre Lockdown period. Up until this point, Mark and I rarely if ever hunt in the mornings. However, during the High Anticipation phase, we hunt mornings and afternoons. Often, we’ll hunt during the middle of the day also, because this

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Terry Drury Explains Pre Lockdown Phase of Deer Season

During Pre Lockdown, Phase 4, bucks are expanding their home ranges, their numbers of scrapes and the bucks working their scrapes increases. You’ll hear and see more bucks sparring. Big bucks are looking for the first doe that comes in estrus, and they’ll latch onto that doe. This is the perfect time to call deer.

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Terry Drury On Phase 3: The October Lull of Deer Season

During the October Lull of deer season, about 95 percent of the deer’s movements occur at night. We start seeing a lot of scrapes at this time, and we know the scrapes are being made at night. The deer no longer come to green fields during daylight but do stay in their bedding areas. During the Lull, they have micro home ranges, and they’re in hard horn. They're a little indecisive about where they want

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Terry Drury Explains Phase 2: Greener Pastures Deer Hunting

During this phase, if you're checking your trail cameras regularly, you'll see that daylight activity begins to pick up. Older-age-class bucks will start moving during daylight hours. Also, at this time of the year, you'll have more solid and dependable wind direction. The bucks will come to green fields quite a bit, and the bucks are starting to scrape a little.

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