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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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Backtracking Bucks

Years ago hunters used to need to read sign in the form of tracks, rubs or scrapes. A skiff of snow made fresh sign obvious, but now-days we have trail cameras to simplify matters. Obviously you need to get an initial photo of the buck. Then you use your best guess and keep your cameras moving until you see where the buck is coming from.

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Seeing This Buck Freaked Eva Shockey Out

At 5:00 pm, the big buck walked out, and we all got excited. If the buck came within shooting range, we knew we’d have plenty of good shooting light to make an effective shot. The buck came in from the left side of the blind. Wojo spotted the buck coming through the forest first. For 10 minutes, we watched the buck weave in and out of the trees. We got good footage of the buck

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Eva Shockey's Saskatchewan Buck

The big buck I took in Saskatchewan this year was the most-disappointing yet the most-exciting hunt ever. The hunt was disappointing, because this hunt on our family ranch in Saskatchewan always had been a family hunt for me and my dad. But Dad was in Africa and wasn’t able to come home to hunt with me. That was a bummer, since I really enjoy hunting with my dad. The hunt was also tough, since we

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Playing Major League Soccer and Bowhunting Deer Have Many Similarities

In soccer, to steal a ball, block a shot or try and take the ball away from an opponent, we have to play up-close and personal. Deer hunting presents that same kind of challenge to me. To take a buck with a bow, you have to get up-close and personal and do everything right to be successful.

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3 Times To Watch For Buck Movement

With the hectic pace of life these days many hunters need to maximize their time afield. Even if we could hunt whenever we would like, you still want to make sure the odds are in your favor. If the rut is still happening your chances are good anytime, but following are the three best late season times/conditions to concentrate your efforts when after a mature buck.

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Brad Davis on His Toughest Soccer Game Ever and His First Deer with a Bow

I first started deer hunting with a bow when I was 13-years old and hunted with a bow before I ever hunted with a gun. As I mentioned earlier, I love a challenge, and any kind of deer hunting is a challenge. But for me, hunting deer with a bow and having to get in close is much-more challenging than taking a deer with a rifle. Taking a deer with a bow is just more

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Dennis Garrett Explains That When Bear Move in the Deer Move Out

When the area where we hunt first started getting bears, we thought hunting bears would be really cool. Lots of people were excited about having black bears. Before the bears came into our area, I had two trail cameras out on some property I was hunting and would average getting 1,200 pictures per week of deer, turkeys, squirrels, raccoons and possums. When the bear population moved in, after a week of having our cameras out

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Dennis Garrett Says in Southeastern Kentucky Any Bow Buck Is a Good Buck

In our part of southeastern Kentucky, any buck that you can take with a bow is a good buck, but I’ve found a 170-class buck that I've been watching for 3 years. I've decided I won’t put out trail cameras and won’t go near where he lives until the rut. Since a neighbor saw the buck before the 2014 season, I know he survived last deer season. This year, I've decided to wait on the

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Kentucky Has It All – Whitetails, Elk and Bears

Kentucky offers several hundred elk tags each year. But since I haven’t been drawn yet to take an elk, that’s why I concentrate my hunting on whitetails. I may see bears, and I usually see elk anytime I want to see them, but getting a tag to hunt them hasn’t been easy.

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Can Texas Deer Management Help You and the Land You Hunt Produce More and Bigger Bucks

I know the management practices we use here in Texas may not work in other areas of the country. However, I do know that restricting vehicle movement and hunter movement on any property will increase deer sightings. I’m also convinced that letting the land you hunt rest more days than the days you hunt will increase deer sightings. I also know that your land can carry more bucks, if you have an overpopulation of does

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Kevin Burleson’s Insurance Program for Taking the Right Sizes of Bucks

With a video camera or a Smart Phone that has a video camera built in, the hunter has an insurance policy by giving me the opportunity to tell him whether that buck is a shooter or non-shooter. Also, when the hunter comes back to camp from his hunt, if he’s videoed all the bucks that he’s seen through the morning and afternoon hunts, I can look at his video and tell him what each buck

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Kevin Burleson Tells Why His Ranch Is a Deer Sanctuary

One of the reasons that more mature bucks show up on our 8,000 acres at Heart of Texas Bowhunting is that we create a sanctuary for bucks. I’ve been asked many times, “How in the world can you say that the 8,000 acres that you hunt is a sanctuary when annually you’re taking 300 to 400 deer off your ranch?” To understand how we can call our ranch a buck sanctuary, the first thing you

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Heart Of Texas Bowhunting Hunters Harvest Deer Scoring 150-160

We intensively manage our deer herds. That’s why our hunters see more bucks than does. We have so-many deer on our lands that we have to cull a lot of deer – bucks with undesirable genetics or does when we see that we have too-many does on the property. This section of Texas is extremely saturated with miles and miles and miles of deer. I'm pretty sure that we take more deer off the 8,000

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Unbelievable Deer Management

Kevin Burleson has owned Heart of Texas Bowhunting for 13 years, 16-miles west of Brady, Texas. Geographically it’s right dead center in the middle of Texas. Can you imagine seeing 30 to 40 bucks each day that you hunt? The deer-management system that Kevin Burleson uses may not produce this type of results on other properties in the U.S. However, this management system works for Burleson in Texas.

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First Deer Hunts Stay with Us for a Lifetime

Dry leaves covered the ground, thinner along the crests of ridges, then deeper in the valleys between. The air smelled like wood smoke, anticipation and December. The deer hunter among my Old Men walked at a brisk clip and I panted and hustled to keep up, a heavy rifle weighing on my shoulder, my heavy clothes already filling with sweat.

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