Managing a property to improve the quality of deer on it can be hard on the pocket book — but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.
Author: Bob Zaiglin
Rattle Up a Late-Season Southern Buck
Three post-rut tactics for taking the whitetail game deep into overtime.
Locate the Core Area Configurations of Mature Bucks
Understanding how bucks use the heart of their home range can give you a leg up on relocating specific deer from year to year.
What’s the Big Deal About Food Plots and Baiting Stations?
It’s really like comparing apples and oranges. Planting food plots is not the same as distributing a food source such as corn from a generated, motor-driven feed dispenser.
4 Ways to Improve Your Habitat for Better Deer Hunting
Managing property to improve the quality of deer on it can be hard on the pocket book, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.
The 5 Hottest Issues in Deer Hunting Today
Science, politics, management and CWD are among the hottest issues in deer hunting today, with state officials and biologists at the forefront of these.
Create a Road Map for Your Best Deer Management Program
Whitetail deer management can be challenging. Can you produce heavy-racked bucks without knowing precisely how many deer are on your land?
Culling Bucks: Does It Really Work?
Man has always strived to be the best at what he does, and this same attitude applies to deer hunting, and more importantly, deer management. As a consequence of sportsmen’s insatiable desire to pursue larger-racked bucks and managers’ willingness to satisfy their requests, a variety of techniques have been tested to augment the size of […]
Reclusive Bucks: Whitetails Easily Adapt to Man, Development
The almost full-grown button buck fawn clumsily picked its way through the thick brush directly behind its mom. Sometimes they would get separated, more common now that the fawn was rather independent, but a bleat from the fawn allowed the doe to relocate her offspring and they would continue on their daily journey. Once the […]
Young Bucks vs. Old Bucks: How They Behave Differently
Most deer hunters agree that older bucks are much smarter than younger males and harder to hunt. Now, that’s been quantified. That was one of the studies revealed at the 2014 Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting, held in February at Athens, Ga., and attended by 296 deer biologists from across the country. Using fine-scale movement data of whitetails […]