Hunting Indian Style
By Bill Vaznis “It just can’t be done!” the pro at the local archery shop told me. “Sure, you might get lucky once in a while, but frankly, if you set out to still-hunt whitetails all season long, You will be “still hunting” at season’s end. Deer are just too smart! The only way to [...]
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Understanding and Hunting the Rut
By Matt Ross If there is ever a time during the hunting season when the average hunter gains a slight edge on a trophy buck, it is during the core phases of the whitetail breeding season; which can also be called the rut.
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How quickly fatal is a single-lung hit? and how bout a paunch hit?
Answer: In talking with a veterinarian about this kind of hit, we learned that most single-lung hits will be fatal, but the animal may not die quickly. Healthy deer have been shot that had only one lung proving that some deer can recover from a single-lung hit, but most will not. The length of time [...]
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Late Rut Bucks From The Rough
By Bill Winke The author took this buck by concentrating on how deer use the terrain while traveling during the rut. The buck grossed 160 points. Deer hunting should be simple. Not only does that appeal to simple minds like mine, but big bucks are too unpredictable to follow a complicated script. I’ve also found [...]
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What’s The Best Way To Hunt Bedding Areas?
Question: There is a spot that I hunt where I know a big buck is bedding during much of the season. It is a brushy draw out in CRP. The area is nearly impossible to approach, but I’ve kicked him out of there a couple of times when scouting, and some pheasant hunters have seen [...]
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How To Call Whitetail Deer
By Bill Vaznis The secret is out. Rattling horns and grunt tubes can turn an otherwise uneventful morning of deer hunting into a day of reckoning. Indeed, they will draw a buck passing just out of range into bow range as well as a deer that is sneaking behind you undetected. They work so well [...]
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Refine Your Predatorship…Slow The Hell Down!
by Ted Nugent With many years of guiding hunters around the world, I am compelled to share some very important observations with you in preparation for the ever-moving, soul-stirring, adrenalin-charging arrival of our sacred season of harvest. Being priveledged to learn from the masters like Fred Bear, Dick Mauch, George Nicholls, Claude Pollington, Bob Foulkrod, [...]
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How Should You Hunt Scrapes?
Question: This fall while hunting one of my spots in southern Ohio I ran into a situation that baffled me. In October I had found some really huge scrapes that were being freshened every day. I hunted them a couple of times without seeing a big buck, but decided to leave the area alone until [...]
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