I recently attended the North American Deer Summit put on by the National Deer Alliance. If you haven’t heard of the NDA, check out their website and become a member (It’s FREE). The North American Deer Summit was a meeting of many leaders in...
We all know that nutrition plays a role in antler and body growth. What many people don’t know is that a doe’s nutrition while she is carrying offspring can influence the future growth of that offspring both in antler and body growth. When a...
Spring is a time of transition. Deer have made it through the winter and are focused on growth. The bucks are budding antlers and the does are in the last stages of pregnancy (except in the south where herds are several months behind). Green growth...
If you would have told me that I would hunt hard for 2 days and not even lay eyes on a turkey, I would have told you to go pound sand. But, that is exactly what happened to me on my latest turkey hunt.
I hope that someday there will be a listening device that you can put on a tree that detects a turkey gobbling and gives you a bearing and a distance. Until that day comes, we are going to have to do a little scouting to figure out where that...
I talk to a lot of hunters while at trade shows, and I have heard a few say that they don’t use feed or minerals because it’s not natural and that deer can get everything they need from their natural diet.
Hoof rot is just as ugly as it sounds. It’s a bacterial infection that deer can get when an open wound allows bacteria (Fusobacterium necrophorumto) to enter their flesh. When the bacteria persist, the foot becomes enlarged and the bones of...
Every year that I hunt, I am optimistic about my opportunity to see and harvest a mature buck. The excitement of killing a mature buck shakes me to my core, and that’s why I sit for hours and hours in a tree stand. The anticipation of how the...
Knowing where a buck spends most of his time is the biggest challenge to harvesting him. If you wait until fall to locate a buck, you risk bumping him if you enter his bedding area. In the spring, however, bumping a buck has fewer consequences,...
