Author: Jason Houser
Jason Houser is an award-winning author, photographer and TV host based out of southern Illinois. Since 2008 Jason has been a fulltime outdoor writer for most national hunting publications. In 2016 Jason began hosting Bone Wild TV on the Pursuit Channel. Over the course of his career, he has hunted throughout much of North America as well as in South Africa several times. His love will always be hunting big whitetails on his family farm in Illinois, but he is not opposed to hunting anything that might be in season. Jason is known as an authority on trapping, having written hundreds of articles on the subject as well as dozens of TV shows related to trapping. It is not all about four legs for Jason though, he loves spending time on the water as much as possible. When Jason is not in the woods, on the water or on the trapline, you can find him spending quality time with his family.
Bucket List Hunt for a Velvet Buck Whitetail hunters often have a bucket list. However, the list might not be the same for all. One list might have a Boone and Crockett buck on it. Another might have a buck with a 24-inch spread. While others want to harvest a velvet buck. If you have deer velvet on your mind, you will need to make a game plan as you only have a handful of options to get it done. Deer antler velvet is living tissue, and most bucks shed their velvet within the first week of September. Because of…
Hunters and land managers are always looking for ways to improve and protect the deer herd they hunt and that live on their property. They have buck to doe ratios down to a science, practice QDMA guidelines for trophy management, provide sanctuaries and food plots. The list can go on and on. All of these things are fine and dandy, but what about predation from coyotes? In areas of the country where coyotes thrive, they can play a huge role in the survival rate of fawns and even healthy, mature deer. Are landowners doing enough to control the coyote population?…
More big bucks are killed during the rut than any other time of deer season. Some hunters luck into killing a big buck, and others put the odds in their favor. Here are five tactics that will help you be a successful hunter during the whitetail rut. FIND WHERE THE DOES SLEEP This is the time of the season bucks are constantly looking for does. The best place for a buck to begin his search is where the does spend most of their time during the day, bedded down. Begin by going to a favorite food source of the deer…