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Hunting
A Beginner’s Guide to Traditional Archery
May 7, 2025Brian Grossman
I have a lot of great memories from over 35 years of bowhunting, but few compare to taking my first deer with a traditional bow. No, it wasn’t a big buck. In fact, it wasn’t…
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Venison
The Venison Liver Pâté Challenge
May 6, 2025Elizabeth Kligge
I would not consider myself to be someone who likes liver. However, I had a desire to utilize more of my deer, and that meant tackling a portion that many claim is inedible. I wanted…
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Deer Science
A Photo Gallery of Jawbones From Extremely Old Deer
Apr 30, 2025Lindsay Thomas Jr.
The longer deer live, the more they wear down their teeth from chewing forage and browse. It used to be that hunters could only age extremely worn deer jaws as “5½-plus” or some variation of…
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Venison
How to Make Maple Wild Pork Breakfast Sausages
Apr 28, 2025Elizabeth Kligge
Wait a minute – that’s not venison! That’s right. This is a wild pork recipe, and we are the National Deer Association. Let me explain. A few years ago, when I was just starting out…
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Aging Bucks on the Hoof
Jan 25, 2012Kip Adams
Harvesting white-tailed bucks based on age is becoming an increasingly common management strategy. To implement this practice, hunters must have the ability to accurately age bucks on the hoof based on their body characteristics, an…
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Submit Your Buck Photos for “Age This!”
Jan 1, 2012Lindsay Thomas Jr.
One of the most popular features of NDA’s weekly e-newsletter is “Age This!” We select trail-camera photos of bucks supplied by our readers and ask our readers to estimate their age. Readers get to see…
