Hunting Let’s hit the woods!

Whether you want to learn to hunt deer, become a more effective hunter, you’ve notched many a deer tag, or you want to help introduce someone new to hunting, you’re in the right place. Choose a pathway below to begin enjoying better deer hunting.

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  • 15-acre fixer-upper
  • access
  • acorns
  • action alert
  • advisory committee
  • advisory council
  • aging bucks on the hoof
  • airbow
  • airgun
  • ammunition
  • annuals
  • anti-hunting
  • antler growth
  • antler injuries
  • antler score
  • antler velvet
  • antlerless
  • antlerless harvest
  • antlers
  • apple trees
  • apples
  • appropriations
  • archery
  • arrowleaf
  • austrian winter pea
  • awards
  • bachelor group
  • baiting
  • balansa clover
  • Ballot Measure 114
  • banquet
  • bedding
  • blood-trailing
  • bobcats
  • Boundary Waters
  • bowhunting
  • brain abscess
  • brassicas
  • Bronson Strickland
  • browse
  • buck age
  • buck age structure
  • buck fight
  • buck harvest
  • buck home range
  • buck management
  • buck mortality
  • buck movements
  • buck rubs
  • buck:doe ratio
  • bucks
  • buckwheat
  • budget
  • button bucks
  • BWCAW
  • camouflage
  • canned hunting
  • captive
  • captive cervids
  • captive hunting
  • carrying capacity
  • cementum annuli
  • cereal grains
  • cereal rye
  • chainsaws
  • chicory
  • chronic wasting disease
  • Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act
  • clover
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  • commercial hunting
  • Commission
  • connecticut
  • conservation
  • conservation funding
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  • cooperatives
  • corn
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  • coyotes
  • crabapple
  • crimson clover
  • crossbows
  • cryptorchidism
  • Cuddeback
  • culling
  • cultipacker
  • cwd
  • CWD Research and Management Act
  • cwd roundup
  • cyberscouting
  • data collection
  • deer anatomy
  • deer behavior
  • deer biology
  • deer density
  • deer diseases
  • deer farm
  • deer food
  • deer forage
  • deer genetics
  • deer glands
  • deer harvest
  • deer health
  • deer hearing
  • deer heart
  • deer hunters
  • deer management
  • deer movement
  • deer nutrition
  • deer orchards
  • deer recovery
  • Deer Report
  • deer research
  • deer restocking
  • Deer Season 365
  • deer senses
  • deer stands
  • Deer Steward
  • deer tracking dog
  • deer vision
  • Delaware
  • DMAP
  • doe harvest
  • doe hunting
  • donation
  • early successional habitat
  • ebike
  • edge feathering
  • Educational
  • ehd
  • Endangered Species Act
  • equipment
  • escape cover
  • excursions
  • Expo/Other
  • fall food plots
  • Farm Bill
  • fawn predation
  • fawn recruitment
  • fawn survival
  • fawning cover
  • fawns
  • FCEP
  • Featured
  • federal legislation
  • feeding
  • feral hogs
  • fertilizer
  • Field to Fork
  • firearms
  • fireblight
  • Florida
  • food plot
  • food plot equipment
  • food plot failure
  • food plot planting
  • food plot species profile
  • forage
  • forage rape
  • forest
  • forest conservation easement program
  • forest management
  • forest manager
  • forester
  • forestry
  • frost-seeding
  • fruit trees
  • fsi
  • funding
  • game meat
  • Georgia
  • glyphosate
  • glyphosate resistance
  • GPS collar study
  • grain sorghum
  • grant
  • grasslands
  • Gun Raffle
  • habitat improvement
  • hard mast
  • harvest data
  • harvest reporting
  • Hawaii
  • heavy arrows
  • hemorrhagic disease
  • herbicides
  • herd management
  • herd monitoring
  • hinge cuts
  • home range
  • hunter recruitment
  • hunter safety
  • hunting access
  • hunting clothes
  • hunting gear
  • hunting lease
  • hunting media
  • hunting permission
  • hunting plots
  • hunting pressure
  • hunting regulations
  • hunting safety
  • hunting strategy
  • hunting the wind
  • indemnity
  • invasives
  • Iowa
  • Jason Sumners
  • jawbone aging
  • jointvetch
  • Kansas
  • ladino clover
  • lead
  • lead ammo
  • legislation
  • legume
  • legumes
  • license
  • licensing
  • light arrows
  • lime
  • liming
  • locavore
  • lockdown phase
  • Louisiana
  • lyme disease
  • management plan
  • mange
  • MAPLand Act
  • marksmanship
  • Maryland
  • mature bucks
  • mechanical broadheads
  • melanistic
  • mentoring
  • Michigan
  • minerals
  • mining
  • Minnesota
  • Mission
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • moon phase
  • mosquitos
  • mule deer
  • National Forest
  • native plants
  • New Jersey
  • new york
  • non-native
  • North American Grasslands Conservation Act
  • North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • nutrition
  • oak trees
  • oaks
  • oats
  • observation data
  • October lull
  • Oklahoma
  • onX
  • orchards
  • Oregon
  • parasites
  • pears
  • pennsylvania
  • perennials
  • persimmons
  • piebald
  • Pittman
  • pittman-robertson act
  • poaching
  • pokeweed
  • post rut
  • predation
  • predator management
  • predators
  • prescribed fire
  • Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
  • public comment
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  • public land
  • public lands
  • public meeting
  • public meetings
  • R3
  • Raffle
  • range access act
  • rattling
  • RAWA
  • recipe
  • Recovering America's Wildlife Act
  • Recovering America's Wildlife Act
  • recovering americas wildlife act
  • red oaks
  • research
  • RETURN Act
  • Rhode Island
  • right to hunt and fish
  • Robertson
  • rubs
  • rubs and scrapes
  • rule changes
  • rut
  • rut behaviors
  • rut hunting tactics
  • rut timing
  • ryegrass
  • saddle hunting
  • safety
  • safety harness
  • salvage plot
  • sanctuaries
  • science-based managemetn
  • scouting
  • scrapes
  • season legnth
  • second amendment
  • seeding rate
  • sex ratio
  • shed hunting
  • shoot
  • shooting
  • shot placement
  • shrubs
  • small acreage
  • small property
  • soft mast
  • soil preparation
  • soil test
  • southeast deer partnership
  • soybeans
  • stand placement
  • student licenses
  • suburban deer
  • sugar beets
  • summer food plots
  • sunn hemp
  • supplemental feeding
  • suppressors
  • survey
  • swamp chestnut oak
  • tag allocations
  • tarsal
  • Tennessee
  • terrain features
  • Texas
  • ticks
  • timber cut
  • timber management
  • timber stand improvement
  • Topics: cool-season annuals
  • trail cameras
  • trail-camera survey
  • trapping
  • tree planting
  • tree shelters
  • tree tubes
  • treestand safety
  • trespassing
  • tsi
  • turnips
  • Upper Peninsula
  • usda
  • venison
  • venison donation
  • venison processing
  • Vermont
  • warm season
  • warm-season annuals
  • Washington
  • weed control
  • weird deer
  • wheat
  • whitetail biology
  • whitetail research
  • winter nutrition
  • Wisconsin
  • wolves
  • women hunters
  • Working for Wildlife
  • yearling buck dispersal
  • young forest
  • youth
  • youth hunting

What I Learned From My First Season Saddle Hunting

Jun 22, 2022 Brian Grossman

Unless you’ve been unplugged from the online hunting community for the last few years, you’ve probably heard the buzz about saddle hunting. You may have even given it a try. While using a tree saddle…

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I Bought Deer Hunting Land in a CWD Zone. It Was a Good Decision.

Jun 15, 2022 Nick Pinizzotto

When I heard the news that a new chronic wasting disease (CWD) Disease Management Area was being established near the area I grew up hunting as a kid in Pennsylvania, I got an immediate knot…

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Venison Backstrap Inside and Out: A Muscular Look at America’s Best Cut of Meat

Apr 13, 2022 Ben Westfall

Venison backstrap. What more do I need to say? Most experienced deer hunters know where it is, what it looks like, and that we undoubtedly love to eat it. In fact, we’ll venture to say…

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How to Bore-Sight a Rifle: No Tools Required

Mar 28, 2022 Walter Stroman

Save time and expensive ammo by using this simple method to bore-sight a rifle. No special tools required! I recently talked with a hunter who purchased a new rifle with a scope and two boxes…

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Shut Your Venison Hole, You’re Spooking Deer

Feb 23, 2022 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

As hunters, we think and talk and worry a lot about deer predators, but new evidence suggests the predators deer fear most are – us.  They should. In the 2020 season, human hunters killed 6.3…

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You’re Managing Deer Sanctuaries All Wrong

Jan 19, 2022 Zack Vucurevich

This summer I was visiting a client, and we approached the northeast corner of his property. It was a gently sloping hillside comprised of mostly red cedar trees with invasive plants like bush honeysuckle and…

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3 Keys to Late Season Deer-Hunting Success

Jan 5, 2022 Nick Pinizzotto

My heart sank as the snow crushed loudly under my boots when I was approaching my stand. The temperature was supposed to rise into the low 40s overnight, and I expected melting snow to soften…

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A Secret Weapon for Post-Rut Bucks: Red Oaks

Dec 1, 2021 Moriah Boggess

It was mid-December 2020 in southern Indiana, and my deer season was slipping through my fingers. After two hard months of hunting and over a hundred miles put on my boots, my buck tag was…

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