Trail Camera Surveys: Are They Worth the Effort? Trail camera surveys can provide key data and insight that can help you manage your herd, but are they worth it? Read on to learn the pros and cons of trail camera surveys. Read More Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties
Sticking To the Original Plan For a Wallhanger Whitetail Images of a long-beamed Kansas buck with axe-handle mass kept swirling through my mind as I sped away from it in attempt to utilize an Iowa tag I had waited years to acquire. Read More Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Bow
Whitetail Management: Keeping the Balance If you want to see more and bigger bucks, and larger body weights, you probably need to thin your doe population out a bit, possibly a lot. Read More Deer, Conservation, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
The Trials of a GameKeeper: EHD’s Devastation on Deer EHD is a viral disease that is spread from deer to deer. This disease can be problematic for gamekeepers for a number of reasons. Continue reading to learn more about EHD and it’s devastating effects on deer population. Read More Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
Coues Deer Hunting and Habitat Despite their diminutive stature, Coues deer are ardently sought after, their pursuers awarding them something of a cult-like reverence for the challenge they present. What they lack in physical stature they more than make up for in elusiveness, and their uncanny ability to seemingly vanish into the bleak habitat has earned them the nickname, Gray Ghost. Read More Deer
Virgel Shook Pinpoints the Bucks He Wants to Take Each Season I changed my hunting tactic from taking any mature buck to hunting one buck each season on the ground where I hunt. You really get a great feeling when you pinpoint a mature deer on the land you have to hunt – whether that land’s public or private – and you hunt that buck until you take him. There’s nothing like that feeling. Read More Deer, Bow, Firearm