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Entries for November 2021
Never Stop Scouting
By Dana R. Rogers
You can’t adjust to changing deer patterns if you don’t have the right information. It’s uncanny how you can scout whitetails for weeks, have every detail of their routines logged and memorized, and then one day they’re just ... gone. It’s like the whitetail rapture happened. While it sometimes seems otherwise, deer ar... READ MORE
Rumors
By Mike Handley
You can’t always believe wide-eyed tales of giant bucks, but they’re true sometimes. The tiny community of Bladon Springs, Ala., was abuzz last fall when word spread about the buck an Orange Beach man shot on the day before Thanksgiving. It was the kind of deer the locals had to see to believe. Jerry Loper owns 2,500 acres in nearby Was... READ MORE
The Right Deer
By David Hart
Choosing which doe to shoot can be more important than buck selection. These days, everyone with a few acres and a hunting license wants to manage their deer herd. They want to strike the proper balance between the overall population and the habitat while producing more and larger bucks. That’s a good thing. A healthy, balanced deer herd not ... READ MORE
Rattling Basics
By Bob Humphrey
Calling in bucks is no big mystery, and it can work almost anywhere. It won’t work down here,” said Joe Champion when I asked about rattling. And who was I to argue with his nearly four decades of experience as a guide at the Hit-n-Miss lodge in Central Alabama? At least one guy in our hunting party was not convinced, but he kept his sk... READ MORE
Finding Funnels
By Tracy Breen
The more deer concentrate in a small area, the better your chances of tagging one. As browsers, whitetails are constantly on the move from one food source to another. They’re also creatures of habit, sticking to areas and trails that have provided safety and security in the past. Every year, hunters successfully pattern and kill individual bu... READ MORE