White-tailed deer populations are on the decline nationwide. Although the reasons vary regionally, some experts suggest diseases such as chronic wasting disease (CWD) are a contributing factor — at least in specific areas.
Deer Behavior
6 Tips on How to Kill Big Bucks in Unlikely Places
It pays to scout and hunt unlikely areas! Here are 6 great tips about how rifle hunters can pluck monster bucks from unsightly, overlooked real estate.
How and Why the Weather Affects Whitetail Movement and Hunting
If deer hunters only went on perfect days they might miss some great bowhunting. Maximize your days with this info about how weather affects whitetail deer.
Acorns Rule, But Don’t Overlook Other Forest Deer Candy
Acorns, persimmons and other mast are the candy of the forest that deer and deer hunters seek each autumn.
More Clues About How, Why Deer See Better Than Humans
White-tailed deer are a prey species. Their sight, hearing and sense of smell are especially adapted to evade predators, human hunters included. While the whitetail’s ability to hear and smell potential danger is probably most critical for survival purposes, I’ve been impressed by their ability to detect even the slightest bit of potentially dangerous...
Precocious Fawns: Advanced Fawns Typically Become Superior Adults
White-tailed deer are one of the most prolific deer species on Earth. Aside from being able to adapt to a wide variety of habitat conditions and environmental pressures, they can breed at a young age, produce more than one offspring per year and give birth at the most favorable time of the year.
Big Buck Sheds Both Antlers on Film!
Hey everybody, check this out. It is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen come across my desk in a while. Jeff Enns posted this on YouTube a while ago, but we first saw it now. He writes: “Here is a mule deer buck that I have trail cam videos and videos of in...
Three Payoffs to Scouting for Deer After the Season Ends
The season is over for whitetail hunters across the country. Whether you let a crossbow arrow fly to put meat in the freezer or antlers on the ground doesn’t matter much any more. But your work is far from over. In fact, it never really stops if you want to stack the odds in your...
Once a Spike, Always a Spike: Deer Hunting’s Big Myth
White-tailed deer tend to grow antlers that are fairly well-balanced. That is, one side looks pretty much like the other. Keep in mind, however, that no two antlers are ever exactly alike, although their similarities from side to side, or even from one buck to the next, are sometimes striking. Nevertheless, deer antlers are...
Bypassing Bucks: Can You Manage Genetics Through Selective Harvest?
It’s a calm, cold winter afternoon just before dark and you’re in the stand, sitting exactly where you want to be during the peak of the whitetail rut. Just upwind of you is a lush food plot that is beginning to fill up with does, and you’re certain that the old bucks are going...