Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of our cofounder, Jack Brauer. His 1960s “Stump Sitters” deer camp provided him the idea to incorporate the Stump Sitters Whitetail Study Group in 1973, which led to the creation of Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine, America’s First & Foremost Whitetail Source® in 1977. Before D&DH, […]
The buck of your dreams is in your sights. His symmetrical 12-point rack is tall and wide. Later that night back at camp, when trying to quantify just how big that buck was, you stutter, “He was a Booner!” Here’s a fun fact for you: If the man who invented that scoring system was given […]
It takes guts to give up everything you know to start over. But it takes something else — vision, imagination, creativity, inventiveness, among other things — to kickstart an industry. That’s exactly what the founders of this magazine had … in spades. The first issue of Deer & Deer Hunting appeared 49 years ago, but […]
Dan Schmidt struggles with freezing Nebraska temperatures on a whitetail rut hunt in the Sandhills.
Take a look into the reality of modern deer hunting as host of “Trailing the Hunters Moon”, Blake Barnett joins Dan Schmidt to discuss the constantly changing world of whitetail deer as well as give us tips on what we can do to be successful during hunting season.
One of Deer Talk Now’s original hosts joins Dan Schmidt to share classic hunting stories and analyze the evolution of turkey hunting. Download the podcast on Podbean here or see what other apps the Deer Talk Now Podcast is available on.
From the look on his face, Pedro isn’t too hungry. He’s only eaten half his corn dog and a couple of forkfuls of his green beans. His juice box remains opened, and his daily portion of tater tots are stacked in a neat pyramid on his school-lunch tray. Meanwhile, Napoleon is famished. His gaze darts […]
What you’re seeing is not a hoax. It is the weirdest whitetail malady I’ve seen in my 28 years of working here at Deer & Deer Hunting. I first reported on this bizarre fawn in the late 1990s. Even back then, some of the weirdest things I had seen were a doe that had five […]
Learn the true definition of deer that appear to be both male and female. Dan Schmidt explains what researchers have learned about these odd whitetails.
Deer Talk host Daniel Schmidt explains how two guys from a North Woods deer camp kickstarted the whitetail frenzy that we all know and love today.