Host, Dan Schmidt sits down with creator of the popular Michigan Deer Hunters Facebook page, Dale Techel, and together they examine all topics concerning whitetails in the midwest.

Host, Dan Schmidt sits down with creator of the popular Michigan Deer Hunters Facebook page, Dale Techel, and together they examine all topics concerning whitetails in the midwest.
Adam Lewis addresses the deer management issues in Michigan from dwindling deer hunter numbers, imbalanced buck-to-doe ratios and skewed age structure.
The Deer Management Initiative is aimed at evaluating and responding to present-day deer management challenges.
Fifteen-year-old Dylan Meyer from Zeeland, Michigan bagged a 20-point nontypical that is now the state record in the youth category for nontypicals.
We bet you will be surprised by some of these numbers! Deer & Deer Hunting has meticulously documented each state’s deer population and annual deer harvest every year since 1992. This wasn’t an easy job. It required weeks of phone calls and email phone tag with biologists from each of the 42 states with reportable […]
With a combined population of more than 4,000 wolves, the numbers in these three states far exceed the quotas that deemed gray wolves as recovered. Today the Sportsmen’s Alliance, together with Michigan Bear Hunters Association, Upper Peninsula Bear Houndsmen Association and Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, filed a pair of petitions under the Endangered Species Act […]
Thousands of deer hunters in two big deer hunting states will be allowed to hunt over corn, apples, carrots, pumpkins and other bait beginning this fall. Michigan was the most recent state to rescind some of its baiting regulations when it announced earlier this summer that hunter in the Upper Peninsula will be allowed to […]
The CWD wheel goes round and round. Where it stops, nobody knows. But in today’s headlines, we learn the wheel stops from panic mode to eh-deal-with-it mode depending on which state you happen to live in., For example, in Michigan, lawmakers are calling for easing up on CWD-induced laws because the disease is spreading regardless […]
This winter has been relatively mild across the United States, but if things don’t improve quickly, at least 10 counties in the Upper Great Lakes Region will begin losing white-tailed deer to winter kill. Few states experience the harsh affects of winter like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan when it comes to deer loses via starvation. […]
Police may have cracked a 5-year-old cold case homicide with the arrest of two men.