How To Hunt Mountain Bucks

Things to Learn and Keep in Mind Before Hunting High-Country Whitetails As a Central Kentucky native, I don’t live in the mountains. Eastern Kentucky has plenty of mountains, but they’re not located here. In this part of the world, the landscape is intermittent timber with open areas along rolling hills. One of the best things…

ByJosh HoneycuttMay 5, 20220Comments

Tips & Tactics

Grounded Hunting

and Seeing Targets from Their Level These were the directions from my Alabama host: “Position your feet so you can raise the lower platform of the crawler, raise the platform, then stand on it. Next, use the upper part of the platform where the seat is to pull yourself up the tree. Then, repeat the…

ByLarry WeishuhnMay 3, 20220Comments

Hunting Tips & Tactics Whitetail

Lessons Learned: How Unsuccessful Hunts Can Shape You Into a Better Deer Hunter

I have 20 deer seasons under my belt, and Lord willing, I’ll have many more. While I have many mule deer and Whitetail racks in my home, I’m not too proud to say that I should have many, many more. I’ve made countless mistakes over the years that have cost me big time. Of course,…

ByDarron McDougalJanuary 5, 20220Comments

Hunting Tips & Tactics

Precipitation, Pressure and Temperature

How Weather Patterns Affect Deer Movement I feel like a sausage—an onion-wrapped sausage—as I waddle my way to the tree stand. Layers upon layers of thermal underwear, a sweatsuit, a windbreaker, parka, ski pants, minus 100-degree boots, a neck warmer, toque, and mittens thick enough to safely handle liquid nitrogen have me loaded up and…

ByNoel LinseyJanuary 5, 20220Comments

Whitetail

Last-Minute Whitetails: Sometimes Worth the Wait

“Why did you not shoot that buck? He walked to within less than 20 feet of where you were hidden under that pile of corn stalks,” exclaimed the smiling neighboring farmer when I walked back to my pickup, which was parked at his gate. I simply shook my head. For most of the Iowa late…

ByLarry WeishuhnJanuary 5, 20220Comments

Hunting Tips & Tactics

10 Reasons You Aren’t Good at Shed Hunting

Identify these hindrances, and then diagnose them Throw an antler over your shoulder in the middle of a brush-covered forest and see how long it takes to find it. Go on. Give it a good chuck. Then set that timer. You might get lucky and spot it right away. Or you might not (even with…

ByJosh HoneycuttJanuary 1, 20220Comments

Hunting Tips & Tactics Whitetail

7 Tips To Hunting Dense Cover For Nocturnal Bucks

Here is your Plan of Attack! Wall know they’re out there. We capture nighttime photos of them on our trail cameras, or spot them feeding during an August evening, before they sneak back to the woods and seemingly vanish for the autumn months. Maybe they’ve been spotted as they crossed a road at night. These…

ByMark RaycroftJanuary 1, 20220Comments

Hunting Tips & Tactics Whitetail

The New Season

The sun was setting in the western sky when I decided to climb down from my treestand and call it a season. I had spent 70 hours perched in various stands over the past 15 days, but for the past hour I found it difficult to focus my thoughts. My fingers gently caressed the crossbow…

ByTodd BromleyDecember 30, 20210Comments

Hunting Tips & Tactics Whitetail

Whitetail Deer: Calling Tactics To Draw In A Buck

Of all prey species, whitetail deer can be the most challenging to entice with the use of a call, be it a grunt tube, rattling call, or a doe bleat. Learn how, and when to use your calls to improve your odds in the deer woods next hunting season. The Grunt Tube Most deer hunters…

ByNoel LinseyDecember 30, 20210Comments

Bowhunting Stories Whitetail

Snowbird Bucks

Head south to extend your deer-hunting season! Now that I live in northern Idaho I miss the late seasons of the Southwest I once took for granted. Today taking advantage of those opportunities requires packing up and in investing in two-day marathon drives, which I do happily. By the time December, and especially January, rolls…