Deer Hunting

Scouting For Deer – Summertime Tips

I have to admit, as I get older, it's gets harder and harder to think about scouting for deer when it's 100 degrees outside. I'm usually thinking of my next fishing trip or how high my electric bill will be! I'll bet that many of you are the same way, whether you're old or young!

7 Reasons You’ll Lose Your Deer Lease This Year

7 Reasons You'll Lose Your Deer Lease This Year

I received an email from a buddy the other day. Seems him and his group are losing their deer hunting lease that they've had for the last 12 years. This is a large deer hunting lease that has quite a few members. My buddy doesn't know where he'll find another deer lease to get on for the upcoming season. They've taken some nice deer off of that lease over the years. I know they'll miss the deer hunting that it provided.

11 Late Season Deer Hunting Tips

late season deer hunting tipsOkay, be honest, how many of you that live in States or Provinces that have late deer hunting season have forgotten about deer hunting? If you're like I used to be, you're probably thinking about the upcoming fishing season or you're hunting Small Game and Waterfowl.

But you could be missing out on the best time to take a good buck.

Baiting Deer – Good, Bad or Ugly?

baiting deerI was reading a post by Arthur over at SimplyOutdoors.Net the other night. He had an excellent post on baiting deer. After reading his post, I found that we have some of the same opinions about baiting Deer.

Oklahoma 2007 Blackpowder Season Review

Well, another Oklahoma Primitive Firearms season has come and gone. Ironic that Oklahoma calls it's blackpowder season "Primitive Firearms" with most everyone using modern inline muzzleloaders!

Going into this Season, many of my friends thought it would be a tough hunt. The Full Moon was on Oct. 26th. As if that wasn't bad enough, there was an historic bumper crop of Red Oak acorns due to a wet Summer. I've never seen so many acorns in our hunting area!

Montana Hunter Bags Record Book Non-Typical Mule Deer

Jack Rosander has done something that not many Montana Mule Deer hunters have done in quite a while, he's put a big non-typical Mule Deer in the Boone & Crocket Club Record Books, and he did it with a Muzzleloader!

Rosander took the big Mulie last year in Eastern Montana at the outskirts of a town called Colstrip.

What Idaho Mule Deer Hunters Really Want

The Hunter Opinion Survey conducted by the Idaho Department of Fish & Game is out.

This is a pretty extensive survey of Mule Deer hunters. The Dept. surveyed Idaho Mule Deer hunters to see what they wanted in terms of Mule Deer management.

Basically, they want bigger Mule Deer bucks and to be able to hunt the entire season.

Is the 243 Winchester Too Small For Deer?

243 Winchester

Okay, I know I'll probably get flamed for this, but I think it's something that needs to be discussed. I know it's discussed every hunting season by at least one Outdoor magazine and in every Gun Shop and in every Deer Camp.

The topic of these discussions/heated arguments in deer hunting circles is...

9 Early Season Deer Hunting Tips

buck in velvet early season hunting tipsIn some parts of the country, the bow season for Deer has already opened. By October 1st, most will open or have been opened.

Hunting deer in the early season is a lot different than hunting them later in the fall. A month can make a lot of difference as to where you'll find deer and how they are living.

Have We Forgot How To Hunt Deer?

You can't open a hunting magazine today without being bombarded with ads about the latest and greatest deer scent, deer lures, seed to plant green fields, designer camo, hi tech gadgets and much more. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, you get to an article and it's some so called Deer Guru talking about how he shot a Mega Buck at 250 yards with his rifle across a green field.

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