Food Plots 101: For Best Habitat Management Planning, the First Step is Soil Testing

Deer seasons are over in some parts of the country and still going lights out in others, including the Southeast region where food plots and deer hunting go together like college football and pretty cheerleaders. If you’re not thinking about food plots for the 2015 season, well, maybe it’s time to do so. If your […]

Whitetail Deer Hunters Have No Off-Season When It Comes To Planning

For us serious whitetail fanatics, there is no off-season. We think about whitetails 365 days a year and for the worst of us, we don’t even think about fishing or turkeys. For us, its whitetails and nothing but whitetails. We have just ended our spring scouting and shed antler season and it is still several […]

Spring Greens Are Important For Best Buck Performance

For the last 17 years or so I have raised a small herd of captive whitetails as a way to learn more about the species that I love. I have been particularly interested in whitetail genetics and nutrition. Thus I have done a lot of experimenting with various feed ingredients and have artificially bred my […]

Higgins: Best Whitetail Deer Management Involves Hands-On Experience

With each passing season more whitetail hunters are making their sport of choice a year ‘round venture by either buying or leasing a hunting property and managing it for the best deer hunting possible. By Don Higgins This just happens to be a subject I am not only passionate about but also one that I […]