Dan Schmidt and Mark Kayser demonstrate the strategic use of terrain and natural cover to outsmart big whitetails.

Dan Schmidt and Mark Kayser demonstrate the strategic use of terrain and natural cover to outsmart big whitetails.
If you don’t currently have a target deer on camera, there are ways to increase the odds of shooting a big buck you don’t know about.
Burt Andrew is all smiles with his 170-inch buck, which he tagged later in the 2021 deer season, as well as his other 165-inch buck.
“I never could have dreamed this up. This buck has shown me that hard work and studying deer pays off.”
Can you pattern a rutting buck? Steve Bartylla explains how to score big bucks during the breeding phase by understanding their movements.
Find out how two people who owned a small hunting property consistently shot as big, if not bigger, bucks than their neighbors.
We posed the question to all of the Deer & Deer Hunting Facebook fans: “What’s the Heaviest Buck You’ve Ever Seen?”
Sometimes you get but one chance at the buck of a lifetime. Other times, the deer comes back … and back … and back. When Doug Knott and his son Tyler of Blakesburg, Iowa, first saw the whitetail they nicknamed Junkyard in a game-camera photo taken on Oct. 5, 2015, neither had any idea that […]
The Destination Whitetail cameras travel to Wisconsin for a hunting adventure with the enthusiastic hunters of Takedown Outdoors on this week’s all-new episode, airing exclusively on the Sportsman Channel this Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. Founded by Jerry Milos and Scott Bast, Takedown Outdoors is a group dedicated to hunting, the outdoors and education, while […]
I am greatly honored and humbled to learn that my Whitetail Wisdom blog has been included in the list 25 Hunting Bloggers You Should Follow on Twitter. The list was compiled this week by Steven Remington and Will Jenkins, and includes hunters, anglers and trappers from across the country. Steve is an accomplished author, blogger, […]