Shotgun or Muzzleloader for Deer?
Some of the top deer hunting states in America don't allow rifle hunting for deer, including monster buck hotspots like Iowa, Illinois and Ohio.
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Dealing with Dominant Does
The warm sunshine of a late September afternoon had faded away. Cool air settled into the hillside flat where my ground blind stood. After scanning the area around my blind, I slowly stretched to pull on a heavy shirt. "Whew, whew," echoed through the woods. I had been busted by the dominant doe of a small herd of deer which regularly used my small food plot.
Last week we looked at Deer Hunting Strategies: Food Plots, Acorns, & Dead Deer!
In this episode the team puts together a plan for hunting whitetails using MRI (Most Recent Information). Watch this video for tips on how to know when to hunt food plots vs. acorns as well as tips for fall seeding of clover. There are more whitetail kills to share but unfortunately, they are not the result of the bow (see time marker 6:39). In SE Indiana pro-staffer Kable McAlpine discovers several deer dead as a result of EHD.
Locating Doe Bedding Areas
A crucial step for success during deer season is to know where does bed in your hunting territory. Bucks will be visiting these locations more and more as the rut approaches.
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Make A Killer Scrape Line
Article by Scott Bestul.
Walk Up a Buck
Each year, more and more deer hunters are discovering that sometimes the best hunting strategy is to abandon the stand, get on the ground and go after your deer.
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Deer Call Buyer's Guide
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Low Impact Deer HuntingThe key to growing, and for that matter, hunting mature bucks, can be boiled down to two words: "low" and "impact." Alone they mean little; together they are the Rosetta Stone of big buck hunting. If you take nothing else away from reading this article, memorize this phrase: low impact, and never forget it. These two simple words drive virtually everything my son and I do as landowner/hunters, as deer managers, and as professional wildlife consultants. And they need to drive your hunting strategy as well.
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