Back in the olden days when hunters talked on telephones with dials and used their eyes and binoculars to scout or hunt, my father taught me some great lessons about deer. Don’t look for an entire deer, he said. Look for the glint of sunlight off an antler. Look for an ear flicker or...
Every deer hunter wants to be warm, quiet and as odor-free as possible when in the woods, whether it’s a chilly morning in early season or frigid conditions late in winter when you have one final shot to fill a tag. One of the key things about staying warm, quiet and odor-free is not...
When it comes to taking care of odors, having a complete system probably is the best way to ensure you’ve done everything possible for scent management. Some guys don’t care and some are fanatics. I recently heard about a guy in the Midwest who, no matter who the guests were at his camp, would...
With deer season finally here for everyone in the country — Alabama was one of the last to open, right? I think? — that means there literally are tons of deer meat being cleaned and processed. The gamut of how this gets done spans a wide range. Some guys are DIY specialists who don’t...
Back in November I went deer hunting in Saskatchewan and just before our arrival in Regina, a massive cold front settled into the region and sent temperatures plunging. Like, plunging into the teens and single digits. Wind chills well below zero. Steady wind making things more miserable. I can handle cold temperatures. I don’t...
On some land I’m able to hunt and mess around on during the off-season, it’s about a mile from where I park to one of the stands. I know because of a little gizmo my wife got me back in September that I take with me in my pants pocket. She got it as...
If you’re a fan of the Bob Loveless drop hunter knife, you’ll love this hand-crafted version made exclusively for Deer & Deer Hunting by Bark River Knives. This strong, custom knife is a slimmer, more compact version of a modern classic pattern, and has all the features of the vintage Loveless with it’s increased cutting angle...
Every year in late December I make a little run to the office supply store and pick up at least one, if not two, big desktop calendars for my office. I’ve used these for 25 years, going back to my first job where the sports editor had pretty good long-range planning abilities. Before each...
It’s official! This is it! No more 2014, it’s over Rover, and we are now only hours into a brand new year, 2015! Who needs fireworks? I’m in my treestand! Happy NugeYear! A very serious gungho SpiritWild BloodBrother HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015 to all my deeranddeerhunting.com buddies across the globe! Can you all believe...
When it comes down to it, doing the right thing and helping others is probably the best thing anyone can do for someone. Isn’t that what our parents taught us, to do the right thing and help others? So when 9-year-old Alex Collins jumped at the Facebook invitation to go deer hunting with the sheriff...
