August 2024

Deer & Deer Hunting

Practical and Comprehensive Information for White-Tail Deer Hunters

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In this Special Edition of Deer & Deer Hunting,
We showcase the timeless artwork of whitetail fanatic Michael Sieve. As is the case with all of his work, Sieve’s whitetail paintings (featured in a full-color pictorial beginning on Page 50) tell an individual story. At first blush, his work “Nature
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A Sure Sign Fall Is Coming
Who else remembers anxiously awaiting the new hunting regulations pamphlet? If you do, you surely recall how special it was, because it signaled the approach of a new hunting season! The pamphlet shown here is one I recall fondly, even though I was a
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Deer & Deer Hunting
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Daniel E. Schmidt SENIOR EDITOR Chris Berens CREATIVE DIRECTOR Rebecca Vogel ONLINE CONTENT SPECIALIST Sara Gilane DEER RESEARCH FIELD EDITOR John J. Ozoga FIELD CONTRIBUTORS Steve Bartylla, Bob Zaiglin Dr. Stephen Ditchkoff, Steve So
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Opinion: Doe Hunting Ban Is A Bad Idea
Wisconsin legislation to protect antlerless deer in the Northern Forest Zone for four years is a bad idea because hunter harvest of antlerless deer in that zone is not responsible for low deer numbers. Severe winters that kill deer and reduce fawn pr
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Governor Vetoes Bill
On March 29, Governor Tony Evers vetoed the bill that would have banned doe hunting in the northern portion of Wisconsin for four years. The bill, which was passed by the GOP-controlled Assembly and Senate, was created as a response to years of compl
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D&DH FAN BAGS GIANT BUCK
I grew up hunting whitetails in north-central Ohio and have taken several nice bucks over the years. But none were nearly as big as this one. I had been watching this deer since the fall of 2021, when he was a big mainframe 8-point. He was a resident
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Roots
When I first started hunting on some farms straddling the line that joins Cadiz and Jordan Townships, The Beatles were still together, and Volkswagen Bugs were just cheap transportation — not so cool as they seem to be today. I did listen to The Beat
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Broadhead Effectiveness
Many, many years ago I visited the Oklahoma home of one of the real pioneers of modern archery and bowhunting, the late Jim Dougherty. Most prized among his many little collections of archery memorabilia was an amazing array of broadheads, both old a
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Broadhead Weight
A quick note on broadhead weight. Back in the 1980s I began weighing a lot of broadheads, mainly to see how close to their advertised weight they actually weighed. I used the same electronic grain scale I used to weigh gunpowder when handloading rifl
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Mastering THE ART OF DEER VOCALIZATION
I was in the middle of a rough stretch of bowhunting when just for a second, thought my fortunes were turning. It was an overcast but calm afternoon just before 3 p.m. on October 26, 2018, when I caught some movement on the neighbor’s land some 250 y
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UNDERSTANDING & ADDRESSING ACCESS ISSUES
I recently asked my Facebook followers to provide me with the biggest hunting and management challenges they’re striving to overcome. Although many may be surprised, nearly 25% of the responses were a variation of not being able to access and/or depa
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The Art Of Capturing DEER ON CANVAS
The rapid growth of the deer population in the U.S. from about 3 million in the 1970s to more than 30 million today has resulted in an explosion of interest in deer and deer hunting. This has also resulted in increased interest in wildlife art featur
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DEER & COYOTE PRESSURE
With fawn-in-mouth, a coyote walks in front of a trail camera. Another young deer dies, and fawn recruitment drops even lower. As a deer hunter, it’s disheartening, but is the situation dire? A recent research study dug into the effects of coyotes an
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5 Important Fawn Recruitment Questions
There are many questions surrounding fawn recruitment. However, the following are shedding light on the impacts of predators on fawn survival. Q: AT WHAT POINT must the fawn recruitment rate drop to before deer populations decline (given no changes i
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Leasing Land For Hunting
That headline is not fooling. Leasing land for hunting is a lot more than finding some privately owned land, contacting the owner, agreeing on a price per acre and signing a contract. Sure, it could be that simple, but it never is. Not even close. Es
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Basic Questions
• Number of people in leasing party?• Length of lease?• Cost per acre?• What species of game animals or birds exist on the property?• Are those animals/birds permanent residents, seasonal residents or migratory?• Animal species to be hunted?• Bird sp
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The Whitetails Of Old Mexico
The sun was just peeking over the horizon. Already, myself, buddy Joseph Von Benedikt, and my guide Richard Paun had glassed up a dozen Coues deer, and four of them were medium-size bucks that didn’t interest us. We were hunting in northern Sonora, M
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How Safe Is It?
Let’s be honest. The U.S.-Mexico border is a mess, and has been for decades. However, I’ve been safely traveling to northern Chihuahua and Sonora for 40-plus years and never had a serious problem. The key is for clients to hunt with an experienced ou
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SETTING The Stage
My tension headache escalates as the buck lifts his chin, swirls his muzzle and licks his nose. He’s only 40 yards away, but he’s on the other side of my tree and obscured by thick scrub brush. His actions dictate this will be merely a close encounte
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Pinpoint A Staging Area
The idea of a staging area is somewhat murky, as one envisions a pack of daily commuters assembled on a subway deck, or commercial-airline passengers piled before a gate waiting area. This isn’t entirely accurate. What I discovered is that bucks — de
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MARINADES & MARINATING
Marinating any meat will improve its flavor, taste and appeal. With wild game, marinating may also remove or mask any real or perceived gamey taste or aroma the meat may have. If you haven’t prepared your meat this way, you should, particularly wild
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Recipe Of The Month
12 to 16 ounces venisonKosher saltFreshly cracked black pepper2 cups sushi rice2 cups cold water⅓ cup rice vinegar1 tablespoon sugar¼ teaspoon kosher saltPickled yellow radish (danmuji) cut into strips1 cucumber, seeded and cut into thin strips1 carr
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Team Building
One of the unfortunate things that I’ve noticed these days is that many of us seem to believe everyone else is out to get us. We can’t seem to trust anyone. Everyone else does most everything wrong and our way is the only way. The reason that I broac
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What Should You Focus On?
When aiming at a deer, you can only have one dominant focus: the pin or the target. You can’t do both. If you focus on the sight pin, the target is blurry; just how blurry depends on both the acuity of your eyesight and the target’s distance. If you
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Popular Lever-action Rifles In High Demand
The definition of “hunting rifle” has blurred over the decades. Since the vast majority of big-game hunting the last 100 years has been for white-tailed deer, the appetite for different weapon types evolved as their numbers expanded back into habitat
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AN AMERICAN HERO & A MONSTER BUCK
Army SFC (R)Brandon Neitzel didn’t grow up hunting. “I was a 13M, which is a multiple-launch rocket systems,” Neitzel said. “I worked on the Himars. I did just shy of 15 years, and four combat deployments while in the Army. I was medically retired in
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New Gear
You can easily kickstart mock scrapes by placing an Active-Branch™ on a tree or wooden post in the perfect location. The patents pending branch holder from Wildlife Research Center allows you to mount two branches at the same time. An interaction bra
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The Wait
Always a poor sleeper, 4 a. m. found me wide awake. My normal inability to have a long, steady sleep was further exacerbated by the excitement of the gun season opener. Not wishing to disturb my four cabinmates, I flicked on my Kindle, but my heart w

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