The patriarch of our hunting party traveled a perilous road to show up at deer camp. Waking up at 5am opening morning of gun deer season is greeted with high hopes and expectations by everyone in our hunting party. Prior…
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Chronic Wasting Disease (also known as CWD) has caused states to put limitations on transporting deer from areas where the disease is known to exist. This article discusses the Chronic Wasting Disease travel laws that successful hunters need to be…
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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has become a hot topic within the deer hunting community in recent months and especially in Illinois. Earlier this year Senate bill SB-2493 was introduced which would make it legal to supplemental feed wild deer in…
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A Hunters’ Age-Old Quest Of Finding a Tactic That Allows Him to Consistently Kill Deer I can envision our cave man ancestors sitting around a campfire plotting ways to outsmart mastodons. Killing such a creature would feed the tribe…
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Trail Camera Improvements Make Keeping Tabs on a Deer in its Core Range Possible Trail cameras have been making remote game scouting possible for decades, but advances in cellular trail cameras have recently allowed us to be much more effective…
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I just kicked myself for not figuring this out sooner, but I learned from a friend (thanks Jamie!) how to save $160 every other year on the Arizona non-resident hunting license! I always was told you must buy a new…
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The daytime bedding areas deer use will be located where they feel secure about their ability to detect and escape approaching danger. When you’re out scouting bedding areas during the late winter/early spring prior to “green up”, ask yourself this…
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If you’re interested in hunting deer out of state, read on. We’ve got some tips that will help make you successful! Prepare Early Heading out of state to hunt deer involves getting prepared well in advance. It’s hard to start…
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Michigan Public Hunting Land…Where Should You Start? As the cost of buying and leasing hunting property continues to go up, more Michigan deer hunters are turning to hunting public land. As a huge proponent of deer hunting public land I…
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The odds of a whitetail buck making it to a 4th breeding season on public land here in Michigan are low, so there aren’t many around. Consequently, it’s difficult, but not impossible to consistently get on mature deer while hunting…
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Besides the proverbial answer, “any time you can get into the woods”, there are many factors at play in determining the best time to hunt deer. I’ve hunted whitetail deer for over 30 years, spending the past dozen or so…
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OnXMaps for the Public Land Deer Hunter Ever been on public land deer hunting and been unsure where the boundary is and had to back out just as the sign is getting hot? Been driving and had a big buck…
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Back when I began hunting deer, Northern Wisconsin’s herd was abundant. Central and southern Wisconsin didn’t offer the deer numbers that were found in the north. Most hunters headed north to hunt the vast tracts of Wisconsin public hunting land….
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I’m trying to beat the winter blues today by writing out some of the best deer hunting quotes I’ve either said or heard over the years…I’ll start it off with a few of our own here at NextBuk: Deer Hunting…
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During mid to late winter, with deer season closed, there’s no better way to pass the time and help out the deer herd than by snaring coyotes! I never trapped much as a kid, and my son Jacob has shown…
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