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, […]
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50 Years of the Original Stump Sitters!
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 […]
#36: HOW DEER BECAME #1 with David Gilane | Deer Talk Now Podcast
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.
The Quip That Made Fred Bear Laugh Out Loud
“How do you ever expect to survive by running a deer magazine?” That is a real quote, and this long, lost photo is a very memorable walk down memory lane. On the right is Deer & Deer Hunting cofounder Jack Brauer. On the left (can you tell?) you bet, that is none other than the […]
What’s The Heaviest Buck You’ve Ever Seen? Stump Sitters® Insights
We posed the question to all of the Deer & Deer Hunting Facebook fans: “What’s the Heaviest Buck You’ve Ever Seen?”