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DEER SEASON, DONE RIGHT.

Before you head into the whitetail woods, browse our extensive collection of deer hunting videos and articles. For beginners and experts alike. From thrilling hunts to helpful hints, there’s always something to learn from watching the country’s top whitetail hunters ply their craft — and whole a lot to enjoy.

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Pennsylvania Deer Hunting Restrictions Has Its Pros and Cons

The biggest buck I've ever taken in Pennsylvania scored about 130 inches. Back when I took that buck, he was considered a trophy buck. Today however, because of Pennsylvania’s antler restrictions and liberal un-antlered season, we’re seeing much bigger bucks in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Deer Hunting Seasons

Before Pennsylvania’s legalization of crossbow hunting during deer bow season, I could hunt public state game lands and only see one to three bowhunters during the entire bow season for deer. But since crossbows were legalized for hunting deer, I see many more hunters during bow season than I’ve ever seen before. However, even with the legalization of crossbows, I still see fewer deer hunters during archery season than I do during gun/deer season.

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Finding a Place to Hunt in Pennsylvania

Private land hunting in Pennsylvania always has been difficult. Generally, if your family doesn’t own private hunting or farm land you can hunt, if you don’t know somebody who has private land to hunt who will let you hunt there, or if you haven’t gone out well before the season and convinced a landowner that you’re an ethical hunter and you'd do all you can to help him take care of his property, then getting

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Deer Hunting in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania always ranks within the top five states in the United States for number of deer hunters. I have hunted Pennsylvania for 40 years, where you'll usually see more hunters than deer. Pennsylvania’s deer herd statewide has been in a process of change for the last several years.

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Post-Rut Deer Hunting is a Concerted Effort

We’ve learned that on the day when deer are moving after the rut, there usually will be a tremendous buck movement on that same day on other properties close to the land where you're seeing bucks. After I took my buck, we sent Taylor a text that said, “Bingo, I've got my buck. Now it’s your turn to take one.”

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Terry Drury's Post-Rut Muzzleloader Hunt in Iowa

I took my next post-rut buck during the second firearms season in Iowa. I was hunting my brother Mark’s farm on December 9, 2017, only two days after I’d harvested the Missouri buck. When I'm hunting Mark’s farm, I don’t try to guide the guide. I just go where Mark tells me to go and do what Mark tells me to do.

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Terry Drury’s Post-Rut, Crossbow Buck

I'm almost certain the reason this buck came out and presented the shot is because we were hunting with cold temperatures and a full moon. We had a north-by-northwest wind, a bluebird day and a rising barometer about 30.28. All the conditions were right for bucks to be on the green fields.

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Jake Meyer's First On-Camera Texas Buck

This was the first morning of my 8-day hunt just outside of Eldorado, TX. We were setup up in a well-known travel corridor catching the deer coming from their primary food source back to their bedding area. We were seeing a large amount of deer since first light.

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Find Post-Rut Bucks Where There is Food and Little Pressure

Another secret for taking an older-age-class buck after the rut is to have a place to hunt that’s received little or no hunting pressure during hunting season, and that’s close to a food source.

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How Young Is Too Young? Hunting and Age

“This bill will allow responsible hunters to get kids off the couch and off the electronics and into the woods,” Kleefisch told the AP. “There’s nothing more exciting than seeing the look on someone’s face when they harvest their first animal.” Families Afield data reveals that these young newcomers, under supervision as apprentice hunters, are more than four times safer than the general hunting population.

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Rusty McDaniels Fills Canadian Deer Tag in Final Hours of the Season

I was hunting with my good friend Grant Kuypers and his crew up at Buck Paradise Outfitters near Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan. I had hunted with Buck Paradise in late October for six days and did not have an opportunity at a mature buck. I was able to schedule a return trip in early December to try to fill my tag. I had the last four days of the season to make it happen.

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Quick Tips: How to Take Post-Rut Deer

One of the things I've learned about hunting the post rut is that Mother Nature plays a major role when post-rut bucks move. In 2017, we didn’t have the colder temperatures that we’re accustomed to having in the Midwest during November and early December. Finally, in the early part of December, we did get some colder weather.

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Experienced Hunters Cannot Overlook Tree Stand Safety

Statistics show that treestand accidents are the leading cause of injury among hunters. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports that one in three people who hunt from an elevated stand will have a fall resulting in serious injury. The most common types are fractures of the spine and extremities, followed by head and lung injuries. Another study estimated 82 percent of those injured were not using a fall arrest system (FAS). The rest were

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Pegtooth Daypack Shifts the Weight of Quivered Arrows Off the Bow and Onto the Pack

The Mossy Oak Pegtooth daypack is set to revolutionize treestand hunting for bowhunters everywhere. Bowhunters pay good money for their bows in an effort to keep weight down; however, when a quiver is mounted on the riser and filled with arrows, it can quickly negate that weight reduction. The team at Mossy Oak Hunting Accessories set out to find a solution to this problem and discovered a way to bring the total bow weight down

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Late-Season Deer Hunting: How to Fill Your Tag When Everything Else Has Failed

The most anticipated phases of deer season have come and gone and many hunters have unwillingly found themselves with nothing but “tag soup” in their freezers. Don’t quit yet! With plenty of time left in most states and cold weather on the way, the pieces could be falling into place to experience the best deer movement yet. Make the following steps part of your game plan to salvage your season and fill a late-season buck

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