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Antler Accounting

When it comes to maximizing your ROI by allowing a buck to live another year, what’s the best age to cash-in and harvest a particular buck? The answer requires more than basic financial skills, but a broader discussion regarding your management objectives, number of acres under management, habitat quality, etc.

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The Post Rut - When to Hunt by Terry Drury

Once the rut is totally over, Mark and I start hunting only in the evenings. After the rut is over, generally the buck has lost a lot of weight, and he needs to rebuild his body weight for the winter. So, he will be all about going to the food sources. He substitutes the need to breed with the need to feed.

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak

The Rut Is On - When to Take the Mature Buck with Terry Drury

Mark and I have both observed that when the rut has really turned on, the older-age-class bucks usually don’t move until later in the morning. In Missouri, the pre-rut and the rut starts kicking-in the first week of November. The bucks will be looking for that first estrous doe that is getting ready to breed.

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Here Comes the Rut - Where to Set Up Your Treestand

As the rut begins to kick in, Mark and I will move our treestands. We still will hunt the field edges in the evenings where a lot of does will be feeding on that BioLogic Clover Plus and some of the other BioLogic plantings we have. The does that are coming into estrus will move to those green fields late in the afternoon. For our morning hunts, we will set up treestands farther into the

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Learn to Nest and Where to Place Your Treestand with Terry Drury

Birds build nests in trees and bushes, and these nests are supported by branches and limbs and are almost invisible to predators. This is the same strategy I use when I am bowhunting in the early season. I like to have limbs and bushes especially under my treestand that hide my body up to my knees or waist. This way, there is only half as much of me for the deer to see, than there

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Terry Drury Shares Deer Hunting Tips

We pick our camouflage depending on the back cover that we have when we are hunting from treestands. If a deer brings his head up and looks straight at us, we want that deer to be able to look through us, or just see us a part of the tree in which we are hunting. Mossy Oak makes so-many-different patterns of camouflage that we always can find one that is perfect for the place that

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