Robie Pruitt and Steve Bartylla share their advice for how to effectively hunt small properties to maximize your chances of killing big deer.
The best tips for how to create and maintain food plots, mineral sites, game camera surveys, habitat enhancements, water sources, predator control, quality deer management and more.
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The best tips for how to create and maintain food plots, mineral sites, game camera surveys, habitat enhancements, water sources, predator control, quality deer management and more.
How Logging Can Create a Big Buck Haven
One of the most overlooked ways to transform a deer hunting property is logging. With a good forestry plan, you can create bedding, feeding, transition and dead areas.
Create a Dynamite Fall Food Plot on a Budget
Dynamite hunting plots don’t have to price you out of house and home. Use this guide to plan for big things this fall on a budget.
Manage Your Deer Dirt Like an Expert
None of us can be experts at every aspect of land management. Here’s what Steve Bartylla does to build a team of experts that can help.
Black Coyotes: What Causes Them and How Rare Are They?
Find out what percentage of coyotes have dark coats, how they came to be, and how they compare to the more common gray coyote.
Smith: Baiting Bans and APRs Won’t Slow CWD or TB
Little has been done to stop chronic wasting disease, bovine tuberculosis and other diseases. Here, the author shares his knowledge on what will help as it pertains to Michigan and other big whitetail hunting states.
Michigan DNR Examining Deer Management Challenges
The Deer Management Initiative is aimed at evaluating and responding to present-day deer management challenges.
Deer Love Chestnuts
Learn about the worst ecological disaster in American history, and how a new blight-resistant chestnut filled the nutritional gap.
These Trees Are Magnets for Deer
Unlike oaks, these trees bloom later, and those crops contain larger, nutritionally superior nuts with four times the carbohydrates of a white oak acorn, 2.5 times the protein, only a fraction of the fat, and no bitter tannins.
6 Native Foods Deer Can’t Resist
Want to truly hone in on deer travel patterns? Find, then study these six native food sources where you hunt.