Veteran deer hunter Steve Bartylla offered some great advice about hunting pre-rut bucks and thinking outside the box when it comes to your hunting. How’s that? Well, if you want to try a new food plot somewhere or hang some stands in that “what if …” place, do it. What’s the worst that can...
Twenty years drags like a lead-filled wheelbarrow for youngsters looking to the future and seems to fly by for those of us with jobs, mortgages and life in general. By Alan Clemons, Southern Managing Editor So when I stumbled across the 1992 “Deer Hunters Equipment Annual” produced by Deer & Deer Hunting a few...
It was an atmosphere filled with spirited archers and bowhunters, in addition to the unmistakable spirits of archers and bowhunters from the past. By J.R. Absher, The Archery Wire There’s simply no more accurate depiction of last weekend’s official opening of the Archery Hall of Fame and induction of its new class at the...
City council members in a West Virginia town are at odds about debating whether to allow bowhunting within the city. Buckhannon council members tabled the issue last autumn. But it’s been brought up for discussion again, with three members voting to reopen discussion. Two voted against even having any kind of debate about it....
Kelsey Harris is 20 years old, a college student and former Miss West Virginia Teen USA pageant contestant. Like millions of other Americans, she’s also a hunter. Harris is in the spotlight in the first of many upcoming installments of Deer & Deer Hunting’s new column, “I’m a Deer Hunter.” DDH: You moved around...
Hunger Games reviews should be mixed among ages, genders By Alan Clemons, Managing Editor “The Hunger Games” opens today in theaters across the country, a movie that features hunting as an intimate part of the 16-year old main character’s life and plot. According to CNN’s story, “The Hunger Games” is the wildly popular trilogy...
National Park Service officials have released a management plan to address severe problems with overpopulation of deer in the popular and suburbia-surrounded Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. by Alan Clemons Deer have thrived in the park located near the nation’s capitol to the point of decimating natural vegetation to unsustainable levels. Due to...
West Virginia Department of Natural Resources officials have made no bones about what they want: hunters killing more does killed in the Mountain State. Officials want to reduce the number of deer in the state and are encouraging hunters to get the job done. They’ve liberalized doe seasons and the ability for non-residents to...
The whitetail world lost a friend and big-buck hunting expert with the sudden passing of Gerald “Gabe” Shaffner of West Union, Ill. On Nov. 7, 2011, Shaffner came home from his day of hunting and told his wife, Sharon, “I just killed the biggest buck of my life.” Little did he know, these words...
