What a Trophy Buck Knows About Hunters Dr. Robert Sheppard has been hunting and studying deer for more than 40 years and actually conducted a study of 35,000 deer hunters over 20 years at Bent Creek Lodge in Jachin, Alabama. Read More Big Game, Deer
20 Years of Deer Research On Deer Movement Twenty years of research, including 35,000 hunter days and statistics from the National Weather Service about the weather conditions on both morning and afternoon hunts, brings us all startling new information about when deer move. Read More Deer, How-To
John O’Dell Has an Exciting Bowhunt for White-Tailed Deer My videoing and hunting partner, Dave Reisner, and I were hunting and filming in Kentucky last year with Ben Maki, Chief Marketing Officer for Mossy Oak, on his family land in Kentucky. The first day we arrived for our hunt, the weather was between 90 and 100 degrees. The second day, a storm came in and brought wind and rain. On day three, the temperature dropped down 30-degrees from the first day of the hunt Read More Big Game, Deer, Bow
John O’Dell Takes Canadian Caribou This past season, my videoing and hunting partner, Dave Reisner, and I flew to Manitoba, Canada, and landed in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We then took a plane to Churchill, and from Churchill we took a floatplane one hour and 30 minutes northwest of Churchill to Chamcook Lake. Our outfitter had a cabin on the lake, and we hunted on foot or by boat from there. On the second afternoon of the hunt, we were dressed in Read More Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow
John O’Dell Hunts Deer and Javelinas with His Young Son at the King Ranch My son Jacob O’Dell was 10-years old last season when he experienced his first deer hunt. Jacob is only 4-feet tall and weighs about 75 or 85 pounds, but he loves to shoot his bow and really wanted to go deer hunting. He’d already passed his hunter’s safety course. Read More Big Game, Small Game, Deer, Bow
What you Can Learn by Searching for Deer Antlers Shed hunters also may find one of the most-discouraging sights in all of nature – two bucks with antlers locked in combat, and both deer dead. Read More Big Game, Deer
