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How to Host Your Own Field to Fork Hunt

Jun 19, 2025 Elizabeth Kligge

Learning to hunt is a rite of passage that many take for granted. They grow up in hunting families with longstanding traditions and hunting camps. Their friends hunt. Their neighbors hunt. There’s hardly anyone they…

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How Much Gear Do You Really Need to Hunt Deer? These 3 Budgets Get You Started.

Jun 18, 2025 Brock Rosenkranz

Growing up in a non-hunting family, I turned to the hunting industry for guidance. I devoured every deer hunting show I could find, absorbing ad after ad that flooded my impressionable young mind. I became…

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7 Easy Steps to Improve Saddle Hunting Comfort

Jun 11, 2025 Brian Grossman

One of the biggest concerns I hear from would-be saddle hunters is that it doesn’t look comfortable. But going into my fifth season hunting from a saddle, I can attest it is a very comfortable way…

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What Makes Those Holes in Deer Antlers? And Other Odd Antler FAQs.

Jun 4, 2025 Kip Adams

They grow for about 150 days a year. They can grow nearly 1 inch per day, making them the fastest normal growing tissue known to man. Humans have cherished them for thousands of years, and…

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The Deer Hunting Fail That Put Me On a Path to Physical and Mental Fitness

Apr 16, 2025 Nick Pinizzotto

The unseasonably warm start to the 2013 Ohio archery deer season made it difficult for me to get motivated, and it didn’t help that I had lost my mental focus. After making more than enough…

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How to Make Venison Scotch Eggs

Apr 16, 2025 Megan Postol

This delicious way to use venison requires so few ingredients, it’s almost hard to believe. Venison Scotch Eggs are a simple, hearty, and fun way to use our favorite wild game. They reheat well too,…

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The Joys of Serving Others Through Doe Harvest

Apr 8, 2025 Elizabeth Kligge

It’s really hard to find time to hunt deer when your job revolves around giving other people opportunities to hunt deer. As NDA’s Director of Hunter Recruitment, I make plans to get out there for…

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Top 3 Factors Influencing Deer-Vehicle Collisions

Apr 7, 2025 Casey Rotenberger

In my home state of Pennsylvania, everyone has either hit a deer with their vehicle or knows someone who has. The Keystone State was identified as “high-risk” in 2024 by State Farm, with the likelihood…

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How to Take a Food Plot Soil Sample

Apr 2, 2025 Cheyne Matzenbacher

A soil sample test can be the difference between a quality deer food plot and a failed food plot. This simple test can save you time, energy and of course money by determining your actual…

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4 Important Lessons Learned From Managing and Hunting a Small Property

Mar 26, 2025 Brian Grossman

Purchasing a small hunting property has been one of the most rewarding decisions I’ve made. Not only is it nice to occasionally hunt right out the back door, but being able to implement changes to…

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How to Secure Permission to Hunt Deer on Private Land

Mar 19, 2025 Autumn McEntee

Mentoring a new hunter at an NDA Field to Fork event is about as rewarding as it gets. Time spent in the blind is especially interesting because new hunters are full of questions about anything…

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Hinge, Girdle, Fell or Leave? A Guide to 50 Tree Species in Deer Habitat Management

Mar 12, 2025 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

So, you read an article or watched a video about Forest Stand Improvement for deer habitat, and now you’re standing in the woods ready to work. You hold a chainsaw in one hand and a…

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