Stepping Back: Avoiding Over-Pressuring Mature Bucks

Stepping Back: Avoiding Over-Pressuring Mature Bucks

As deer hunters, we know that old whitetail bucks are wary animals. They’re smart and have a keen sense of their surroundings and take human pressure seriously. This is the way they live all the time, while we hunt only some of the time. It’s easy to...
Look’em in the Eye: Hunting Deer from the Ground

Look’em in the Eye: Hunting Deer from the Ground

The abrupt sound of snapping wood and wire caught me off guard. Familiar with the area, I had heard this before.  Not 30 yards directly behind me was an old ragged barbed-wire fence with a large gap. Deer easily slipped through it often as evidenced by the ancient...
The Delicious Truth About Why We Eat What We Kill

The Delicious Truth About Why We Eat What We Kill

I recently found myself peering into the deep freeze for dinner alternatives. As has been the case summer after summer, I saw a familiar sight. Other than a couple of cartons of precooked meals from Costco, there was a multitude of venison and fish desperately...

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