Shed hunting during the pandemic is a small escape from the reality of our situation.
The best tips and tactics for scouting, woodsmanship, how to use game cameras, treestand and blind placement, where deer live and how to find them throughout the year.
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The best tips and tactics for scouting, woodsmanship, how to use game cameras, treestand and blind placement, where deer live and how to find them throughout the year.
Springtime Signposts in the Deer Woods
Whitetails use chemical signals for communication more than visual signs and vocalizations. Glandular secretions and body odors serve better in forested cover because they can be memorized and left on objects in the woods. They can identify the maker, permit scent-matching marks and produce long-lasting messages that continue to work in the maker’s absence. […]
How to Maximize Your Chances of Finding Shed Antlers
Let’s get you on the board and help you get a few shed antlers under your belt.
Shed Hunting for 1 Specific Buck
Although finding any shed is thrilling, the experience is a little sweeter when you find a shed off a familiar deer.
What You Need for Shed Hunting Season
If you’re going to be doing some serious shed hunting, where you expect to find a bunch of sheds or plan to be walking for several days, here’s what to bring.
Where to Find More Shed Antlers
Where to look for sheds is a broad topic that varies across whitetail range, depending on what habitat is available. But two things are universal.
How to Find More Shed Antlers
There’s no magic gizmo that will help you shoot big bucks. The same can be said for finding shed antlers.
Deer Hunting Season Begins Now
The Rolling Stones may have thought that time was on their side, but those of us in the work-a-day world know better. Those “endless summers” of our youth have been displaced by mad scrambles to keep home maintenance, lawn work and countless other tasks in check before our evenings and weekends are once again consumed […]
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.
Top Spring Tips: Shed Hunting, Planning Food Plots
Get your spring started right with a few proven tips from Steve Bartylla for finding more shed antlers, and for growing the best food plots this year.