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Higgins: Best Whitetail Deer Management Involves Hands-On Experience
With each passing season more whitetail hunters are making their sport of choice a year ‘round venture by either buying or leasing a hunting property and managing it for the best deer hunting possible. By Don Higgins This just happens … Read More
So Long to a Friend and Fellow Bowhunter
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing today of our industry friend Mike Strandlund, longtime editor of Bowhunting World Magazine. Mike died suddenly while on vacation. Details are still unknown publicly, but we have been … Read More
Posted in Blogs, Daniel Schmidt's Whitetail Wisdom Tagged deer hunting, deer news, midwest, news Leave a comment
Super Freaks! Bizarre Deer are Usually Genetically Inferior
Some deer pictures are downright fascinating. Like the one here of a piebald buck from Wisconsin. Although many Whitetail Wisdom readers have sent in photos of bizarre deer, this piebald buck is one of the most unique that we’ve seen … Read More
Alabama Board Approves Sweeping Changes For Upcoming Deer Hunting Season
The Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Board met in Birmingham on March 9 to receive public comments on all pending matters and approved sweeping changes to the state’s deer regulations. The changes are among the greatest made in the … Read More
Posted in Blogs, Featured, Southern Deer Hunting Tagged big bucks, deer news, southeast, whitetail deer hunting Leave a comment
Deer Pictures: Real Slobberknockers
There was a day not so long ago when deer hunters across North America were absolutely fascinated with big bucks. No, not big racks — big bucks. Huge, giant, monstrous creatures. Or, as the old-timers called them, “real slobberknockers.” Antlers … Read More
There’s No Such Thing As A Perfect Deer Hunter
A while back, I came across an editorial piece by hunter and comedian Jeff Foxworthy titled, “The Moment of Truth: You Either Have What it Takes, or You Don’t.” Honestly, the second part of the title irritated me and personally, … Read More
Posted in Blogs, Featured, In The Stand With:, Spotlight Tagged archery, big bucks, bow hunting, bowhunting, midwest, whitetail deer hunting Leave a comment
Montana Legislature Strikes Out For Hunters On Lighted Nocks
A few things of note as Mother Nature delivers, hopefully, her last ugly scrawlings of winter before we can escape into spring and summer … Montana legislators were bludgeoned from the fence they straddled during a recent vote that would … Read More
Posted in Blogs, Featured, Southern Deer Hunting Tagged archery, bow hunting, bowhunting, hunting ethics, west, whitetail deer hunting Leave a comment
Whitetail Wisdom: Deer Hunting’s Monday Mayhem
by Dan Schmidt It seems like everyone else is having fun outside these days … Florida and Alabama readers have been hammering turkeys already. I’m just hearing them in my sleep. That’s what 20 inches of snow on the ground … Read More
4 Ways to Guess the Age of a Buck
Want to make an educated guess at the age of a giant whitetail buck roaming your hunting grounds? Analyze his physical features using Charles Alsheimer’s four-point system: 1. The rack. A buck’s antlers change significantly with age, especially after the … Read More
Posted in Articles, Blogs, Daniel Schmidt's Whitetail Wisdom, Deer Behavior, Deer Hunting Tips, Featured, Spotlight, Whitetail Deer Antlers Tagged big bucks, dan schmidt, deer hunting, deer hunting tips, kentucky deer hunting, midwest, north, northeast, qdm, quality deer management, south, southeast, texas deer hunting, west, whitetail deer antlers, whitetail deer hunting, wisconsin deer hunting Leave a comment
Bama’s License Numbers Up, Or Are They?
Annual surveys by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show a range of data for hunting and fishing, including license sales and expenditures for all 50 states. Data is compiled over a five-year period and then released by the USFWS. … Read More
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