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Entries for August 2022
Looking for Bone?
By Mike Handley
Searching the right haystacks is the best way to find needles. Pursuers of whitetails, this continent’s favorite and most widespread big game animal, take to the woods each fall for a variety of reasons. Many deer hunters simply enjoy communing with nature. Some are more driven to collect venison for the freezer. For others, the quest is all ... READ MORE
The Gene Factor
By David Hart
Can hunters use selective harvest to improve buck antlers? Imagine being able to take inferior bucks out of the population so only the biggest, strongest and healthiest are left to pass on their genes. The results of your genetic selections would create a land filled with giant bucks with racks so massive, you’d end up on the cover of Buckmas... READ MORE
Getting In ... and Out
By P.J. Reilly
Spend as much time preparing to get to your stand as you do hanging it. As I watched my neon-yellow fletchings disappear in a creased section of hide just behind the shoulder of the stout Pennsylvania 10-pointer, I couldn’t help thinking of John “Hannibal” Smith’s signature line as the leader of The A-Team: “I love it ... READ MORE
Yo-yoing in Iowa
By Mike Handley
Be careful that the time you shave off a hunt isn’t your 15 minutes of fame. As soon as Joe Daubner heard the ka-thump of a deer landing on his side of the fence, he instantly regretted having lowered his bow to the ground. The Iowa bowhunter had concluded he wasn’t going to get an opportunity at the non-typical whitetail he’d wat... READ MORE
Looking For Achilles
By Duncan Dobie
Hunting suburban bucks is different, but it can be very rewarding. Opening day of Georgia’s 2014 archery season started out like gangbusters for avid suburban whitetail hunter Lee Ellis of north Atlanta. Hunting a spot where he had obtained trail camera photographs of a huge 10-pointer, the morning hunt yielded a nice coyote, a feat not many ... READ MORE
Fear Factor
By David Hart
What spooks deer? Some fear responses are learned while others are instinctive. Whitetails are nervous animals, and who can blame them? Everything, it seems, loves the taste of venison. As a result, evolution has taught them to stay on constant high alert. Every unusual sound, scent or sight sends deer looking for cover. But why does a whitetail sp... READ MORE