We cover the best techniques for what to do on various bad shots to offer the maximum odds of retrieval. In this episode, Steve Bartylla suffers a miss in Missouri, and we examine other misses on camera.

“Deer & Deer Hunting TV” is celebrating 20 seasons in 2024! The show offers 13 new exciting, informative episodes annually highlighting whitetail deer, strategy, tips and more.
Launched in 2005, “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” is still the preeminent program where deer are the stars of the show. This is the thinking whitetail hunter’s TV show, featuring in-depth deer behavior, biology and hunting insights from hosts Dan Schmidt, Mark Kayser and hunters like you.
Schmidt and Kayser have many years of combined hunting experience on public and private lands across the country. If you hunt in the public forest and hope to bring home freezer meat or on private land you’ve intensely managed for big bucks, these four veteran hunters have done it, too. Their years of triumphs and failures are expressed in “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” because they know what you’re going through and want to know about.
It’s not just hunting, either, although “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” offers some great hunting footage. You’ll also get comprehensive and practical insights into hunting strategy, white-tailed deer biology, research, behavior, technology in today’s hunting gear, ammunition, firearms, bows, crossbows, and must-know rut information. Schmidt and Kayser have tried pretty much everything possible — the hits and misses that you’ve done or heard about — and can help you become a better deer hunter.
Catch “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” as part of Deer & Deer Hunting’s Saturday Night Deer Camp on Pursuit Channel. Tune in at 9 p.m. CDT on Saturdays, 8 p.m. CDT Mondays, and 6:30 p.m. CDT on Sundays, and also watch on DeerandDeerHunting.com, the DDH Facebook Page, Instagram and YouTube.
For all of our viewers in Canada, you can see the programs on Wild TV. Tune in at 9:30 p.m. EST on Wednesdays, 2 p.m. EST Thursdays, 7 a.m. EST Fridays, 12 a.m. EST Saturdays and 9 a.m. EST on Sundays.
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Don’t miss these other great deer hunting shows.
“Deer & Deer Hunting TV” is celebrating 20 seasons in 2024! The show offers 13 new exciting, informative episodes annually highlighting whitetail deer, strategy, tips and more.
Launched in 2005, “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” is still the preeminent program where deer are the stars of the show. This is the thinking whitetail hunter’s TV show, featuring in-depth deer behavior, biology and hunting insights from hosts Dan Schmidt, Mark Kayser and hunters like you.
Schmidt and Kayser have many years of combined hunting experience on public and private lands across the country. If you hunt in the public forest and hope to bring home freezer meat or on private land you’ve intensely managed for big bucks, these four veteran hunters have done it, too. Their years of triumphs and failures are expressed in “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” because they know what you’re going through and want to know about.
It’s not just hunting, either, although “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” offers some great hunting footage. You’ll also get comprehensive and practical insights into hunting strategy, white-tailed deer biology, research, behavior, technology in today’s hunting gear, ammunition, firearms, bows, crossbows, and must-know rut information. Schmidt and Kayser have tried pretty much everything possible — the hits and misses that you’ve done or heard about — and can help you become a better deer hunter.
Catch “Deer & Deer Hunting TV” as part of Deer & Deer Hunting’s Saturday Night Deer Camp on Pursuit Channel. Tune in at 9 p.m. CDT on Saturdays, 8 p.m. CDT Mondays, and 6:30 p.m. CDT on Sundays, and also watch on DeerandDeerHunting.com, the DDH Facebook Page, Instagram and YouTube.
For all of our viewers in Canada, you can see the programs on Wild TV. Tune in at 9:30 p.m. EST on Wednesdays, 2 p.m. EST Thursdays, 7 a.m. EST Fridays, 12 a.m. EST Saturdays and 9 a.m. EST on Sundays.
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Don’t miss these other great deer hunting shows.
We cover the best techniques for what to do on various bad shots to offer the maximum odds of retrieval. In this episode, Steve Bartylla suffers a miss in Missouri, and we examine other misses on camera.
These are the days all diehard whitetail hunters live for — the peak of the rut. The team provides insights on deer behavior during this magical time of the year, and how to predict when you should roll the dice on certain stand situations.
In this full episode, we take a look at the biology behind whitetail scrapes and how, when and why deer use them.
Editor-in-Chief Dan Schmidt encounters an Illinois giant that demonstrates the value of hunting old, mature bucks, as opposed to just trophy antlers.
Not everyone has access to hunt private land, and sometimes even when you gain permission from a landowner, you have to share. In this episode we examine what can be done when you encounter other hunters during your hunt on private and public land.
You don’t have to climb a tree to experience success while deer hunting. Here are some spot-and-stalk strategies from Mark Kayser.
A common myth about big bucks is that they always head for the thickest, nastiest cover when wind speeds exceed the seasonal norms. That’s not always true. In fact, the exact opposite is often the case, especially in areas like the Sandhills of north-central Nebraska — where windy conditions are almost always present during prime hunting months.
In the real world, deer hunters are at different stages in their lives, have access to varying degrees of property (from poor to great), and are always short on free time. Some hunters like to hold out all year on the off chance they might bag a big buck.
Unrealistic expectations sometimes run wild in both hunting and deer management. Although we would all like to see bucks make huge strides in antler development every year, the fact of the matter is that wild whitetails are individuals.
Learn more about the biology and behavioral changes that affect white-tailed bucks in summer as their velvet crowns turn into hardened antlers. Plus, watch Daniel Schmidt’s over-the-shoulder crossbow hunt in northeast Wyoming.