Besides enjoying hard-earned wild game meals, hunters are known for their stories. If they’re talking about antlered or horned male animals, their size is almost always a subject of conversation. The Boone and Crockett Club is known for creating a formula back in 1932 to score antler size. Hunters have been scoring their biggest deer, […]
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Finding the perfect treestand setup to ambush that trophy buck can be a bit of a challenge. Sometimes, you find the area you’re looking for but can’t locate a good tree. Sometimes, you find an area with great cover but just don’t get a good feeling about the location. Other times, you may not even […]
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Since we all know that eventually, inevitably whitetail deer smell everything that is floating on the air within their range, then we should be on a continual search to omit those items that will spook them and send them into the next county. So, let’s look at a few of the things that we may […]
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Who doesn’t love pizza? Most people probably don’t think of incorporating their venison in a pizza recipe, but that’s what makes today’s recipe for venison pizza bombs so unique. They take a little bit of prep work since you need to prepare some cooked venison sausage first. However, once cooked and served with a little […]
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As hunters, we know that despite hunting season only being a few months long per year, the work we do to prepare and strategize is 24/7, 365 days a year. Some of that work is more fun than others. Such as placing trail cameras, shed hunting, and maybe even creating food plots. Treestand maintenance post-season […]
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Since we like a good exchange of opinions as much as anybody else, let’s take a close look at two very good types of ammunition and their effectiveness at putting whitetail deer on the ground. Many hunters started off with a slug gun before graduating a mighty rifle. Still others started out with a rifle […]
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Bad shots happen. They are an unfortunate part of hunting. Maybe you misjudged the distance, maybe the animal jumped the string on the shot. Maybe there was an unseen limb or just simple buck fever. Sooner or later, every hunter is going to be faced with a difficult tracking job. You can either keep at […]
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If you have ever handled a northern pike, gutted a deer, cut up some onions, or spilled some gasoline on them, you know what it’s like to have your hands collect stench. Add to that the fact that those odors can be a chore to remove, and you’re going to need one or more of […]
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Anything can happen in the deer woods, but there’s no way to know when your day is going to go from normal to extraordinary. That’s the case with the hunt we are showcasing here today from YouTuber Norton Outdoors. Joey Norton is hunting the Georgia rifle season in mid-December when he’s presented with a prime […]
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Every hunter inevitably compiles a large lump of gear over their lifetime of hunting, whether it be from upgrading gear to get the latest fashion and technology or just replacing older gear for something new. It is hard to just discard that old hunting gear, though, isn’t it? But do we need it just sitting […]
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