The Season

Join the crew from Deer & Deer Hunting and F-W Outdoors as we chronicle the highs and lows of our deer hunting season from start to finish, with personal insights, gear reviews, crazy happenings and more.

Gear We Love: Easton Outfitters Stake Out Pack

EastonStakeOutPack

Easton Outfitters introduces the new Stake Out Pack, a full-featured daypack with an innovative retractable, integrated seat pad. The Stake Out is the perfect match for day hunts when mobility is key. This pack is tailored for “run and gun” … Read More

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Spring? It’s Time For Turkeys, and Turkey Chili!

turkey chili

Turkey season has arrived! If you’re a deer hunter who doesn’t hunt turkeys, just consider this: to turkey hunters, it’s as big of a day as the opening day of deer season. No, really. It is. The geeked-out jitters and … Read More

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How To Cape A Deer For A Mount

deer mount

No matter how good your taxidermist is, he needs your help to do the best job possible. That’s because the process of creating an excellent trophy whitetail mount begins as soon as the animal is on the ground. What you … Read More

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Sight In Your Rifle Scope For More Success

Deer Scope

My wife asked recently why we have four trash bags full of plastic milk jugs piled up in a corner of our garage, instead of putting them in the recycling bin with the other stuff accumulated each week in our … Read More

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10 Tips for Getting More Trail-Cam Images

Scout Like a Pro

The whole reason for trail cameras is to capture photos of the game you pursue. Here’s a list of 10 tactics that will help you capture more of those valuable scouting photos. By Patrick Meitin 1. Food and Minerals. Where … Read More

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First Deer of 2012! Clemons Bags Florida Buck During Archery Opener

After running away twice and returning a third time, this Florida buck's curiosity proved fatal. (Photo: Dane Walker)

Daylight arrives quickly in Florida, or at least it seems that way, so Dane Walker’s comment didn’t come as a surprise early Saturday morning. By Alan Clemons, Managing Editor “We should have left 30 minutes earlier,” Walker said as we … Read More

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It’s Finally Deer Season in America!

Checking stand placements one last time before the season-opener. (Photo: Alan Clemons)

To say I’m a little bit amped for the bow season opener in Florida’s Zone A is an understatement, which is why at nearly 11 p.m. Friday my calloused ol’ fingers were still pecking away at the keyboard. By Alan … Read More

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Hunting The Everglades: Deer, Snakes and Gators!

Alligators are common in Florida, too.

Over the years, the Everglades have been carved up by roads and canals, drained, developed, flooded, farmed and polluted, yet hunters can still go out in what’s left of the River of Grass and bag deer, ducks, wild hogs and … Read More

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Florida Bowhunting Opener Tough, Hot and Buggy

Steve Waters killed this fine Everglades buck a few years ago during the archery season.

Bowhunters in South Florida get to chase white-tailed deer earlier than any other place in the country, which is good news and bad news. By Steve Waters Instead of having to wait until October to grab your bow and treestand … Read More

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10 Tips for Better Bowhunting

Charles Alsheimer

Becoming a great whitetail hunter doesn’t require the intellect of a rocket scientist. It does, however, require that a hunter understands the animal, the environment it lives in, and how to execute a well-thought-out plan. By Charles Alsheimer What follows … Read More

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