Category: Deer Hunting Tips

  • 8 Messages Deer Send Hunters With Their Tails

    8 Messages Deer Send Hunters With Their Tails

    When you spot a deer, study its tail. What you observe will help you make smart hunting decisions. Of course, the deer’s body language is important to watch, too. It goes hand in hand in with what the tail is doing. But the tail’s actions are a very visible, clear and direct indication of that…

  • Watch This Buck Respond to the Estrous Bleat Call

    Watch This Buck Respond to the Estrous Bleat Call

    There’s one question I hear all the time when it comes to calling deer. “Does the estrous bleat call actually work?” Can-style calls or bleats on a grunt tube…do they get the job done? Pretty much every hunter out there has purchased one of these calls. Some have sworn them off saying they don’t work.…

  • The Best Deer Hunting with Foul Weather Crossbows

    The Best Deer Hunting with Foul Weather Crossbows

    We hunt in the conditions we get: rain, sleet, snow and bone-chilling cold, or a mixture of any and all as the Mother Nature is seldom cooperative, especially during the rut, when whitetails are most active and odds are best for arrowing a mature buck. What- ever daybreak brings. Not because we necessarily prefer these less…

  • Finding Doe vs. Buck Bedding Spots and How to Improve Them

    Finding Doe vs. Buck Bedding Spots and How to Improve Them

    Mapping deer bedding spots can be tedious, but it’s an investment that can possibly can payoff as your best investment of the season. Discerning between the two types of bedding spots – bedding areas for does and bedding areas for adult bucks – is important to track which deer you’re going for. There are also…

  • Tips for Cape a Deer

    Tips for Cape a Deer

    The taxidermist wants it caped out before you bring the deer to them though you’ve just shot the buck of a lifetime and you want to preserve that memory by having the deer mounted. How is it done? What are the proper procedures to caping a deer? What do you do? Follow these steps and…

  • Best Predator Hunting Tips for Extreme Weather Conditions

    Best Predator Hunting Tips for Extreme Weather Conditions

    Weather invades nearly every decision you make on a daily basis so much so it has invaded popular culture and even overtaken hit song titles. Humans aren’t unlike their animal ancestors when it comes to the importance of weather and survival. It affects every living thing, especially behavior. If coyotes are your targets then you’d…

  • Tips On How to Scout for Your Hunt From Your Desk

    Tips On How to Scout for Your Hunt From Your Desk

    The natural world is in a constant state of flux. That red-hot covert or hunt unit that relinquished plenty of action a few years ago can prove dead as disco tomorrow, due to environmental factors such as regional precipitation levels, livestock grazing, logging activities, utility or fencing projects, or just a general shift in hunting…

  • 4 Tips to Make a Quick and Effective Mock Scrape

    4 Tips to Make a Quick and Effective Mock Scrape

    One of the biggest advantages mock scrapes provide is providing easy shot opportunities. To do that, simply place the mock scrape within a comfortable shooting distance of, and with the lick branch pointing toward, the stand. Doing so focuses attention away from the hunter and strongly encourages broadside and quartering-away angles. The rest is merely…

  • Reviewing The 5 Tools To Get Your Deer Out of the Woods

    Reviewing The 5 Tools To Get Your Deer Out of the Woods

    “Now the work begins” is an adage that resonates in my mind each time I recover a deer I’ve arrowed. Rarely have I dropped deer in places I can drive to with my Chevy. More often they fall in hard-to-reach places far from the nearest road. And that, my friend, is “work” no matter how…

  • A Series Of Lures For Deer Hunting And Trapping Tips

    A Series Of Lures For Deer Hunting And Trapping Tips

    If you’ve ever wondered how to make the best mock scrapes even better so curious bucks get fired up about them, then take a look at this cool video. Jeremy James hunts in southeast Pennsylvania and sent this video to our good pal Smokey McNicholas, a professional trapper and veteran deer hunter in West Virginia.…