This buck fawn may not be but a few weeks old and still in spots, but it doesn’t back down from this bulldog that could snap it in half in seconds! They’re being playful, or at least the bulldog appears to be, but we know how things can sometimes change. Animals don’t always stay playful. […]
Are aliens checking out our white-tailed deer from spaceships at night and then zooming away? One game camera seems to appear to have captured some hunters from outer space doing just that. Rainer and Edith Shattles of Jackson County, Miss., have Moultrie game camera images they can’t identify. No one can, or will, definitively, for […]
None of the dreaded chronic wasting disease has been found in Arkansas’s deer herd. That’s the bottom line of a report from the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory which did extensive analyses for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission on a set of samples submitted during the 2013 sampling period. Chronic wasting disease is a neurological […]
Deer are very finicky when it comes to eating especially when it is supplemental products offered to wild deer. Any one of a hundred things can influence how often and how much a deer will use a supplemental mineral. By Matt Harper The form it is in (block versus granular), location of the mineral site, […]
What happens when two big bucks square off? One wins, one loses. It’s just the way things are settled among bucks each year, whether it’s in New York or Texas, Florida or Wisconsin. Bucks fight, sometimes they die, and the social pecking order is more established. Check out this video of two south Texas bucks […]
You’d think that taxpayers eventually would get fed up with civic leaders throwing away money on ineffective wildlife management, but they apparently don’t care or don’t realize that what’s going on is a waste of time. Yet another community is considering the use of contraceptive drugs and the time-consuming effort to give these to white-tailed […]
Many of us have joked around about mystery meat in rural gas stations, little pop-up joints on the side of the road or even restaurants in big cities. Wildlife officials discovered and uncovered a little mystery of their own at one purveyor of hot snacks, though. It all started with the sale of deer to […]
Using contraceptive drugs in an attempt to quell the population growth of white-tailed deer has been bandied about for years by animal “rights” groups and others who don’t think any animal should be killed. As hunters know, proper conservation and management involves hunting. Not spending money on contraceptives, trapping, relocating or any other non-lethal feel […]
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Upper Peninsula Deer Advisory Team (UPDAT) invite Upper Peninsula deer hunters to a series of open houses in January and February to learn more about regional deer management, UPDAT activities, and hunting license changes for 2014. The open houses will be held in eight U.P. locations, beginning […]
by Daniel E. Schmidt I remember my first successful deer hunt like it happened yesterday. So, as I sit here today, I can only imagine the excitement that is still coursing through my daughter’s veins. She just shot her first deer last week — the day before Thanksgiving. Taylor is 11 and was allowed to […]