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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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Green Field Plantings for Extreme Weather

If you live in an arid area and want to plant a green field that will withstand high temperatures and little rainfall, I’d suggest planting LabLab. Remember that you need enough moisture in the soil to get the seeds to germinate and start putting down a strong root system. So, prepare your soils by doing a soil test, putting out the recommended lime and then watch the weather.

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Why are the gobblers always on your neighbor’s property and not yours? The answer to that could be a number of reasons. You must look at what a turkey needs and on the other hand, things a turkey doesn’t like. The solution may be easier than you think. Just like all wild critters, they need food, water, cover and space.

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Don’t Forget to Mow and Spray Herbicides

People have told me, “I hate to cut grass. So, why would mowing clover be a good idea?” If you mow the seed heads off the clover and alfalfa, you encourage new growth to appear and get a thicker, healthier plant.

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What to Plant When and Why

If I only have one food plot that I can plant, I’ll probably plant an annual. In the spring, I’ll plant either BioMass or LabLab. In the late summer or early fall, I’ll rotate the crop into a cool season planting like BioLogic Maximum or BioLogic Outfitters Blend. However, if I have multiple plots, I’ll plant some of the fields in perennials, like clover, chicory and alfalfa. I’ll use my other food plots to plant

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Grow Bigger, Better Bucks Right Now

I really believe that the most-overlooked yet easiest thing for a hunter or a landowner to do that dramatically can increase the yield on the crop planted for wildlife is to take a soil sample and send it off to be analyzed. You can save money by adding the ingredients your soil needs and not adding other ingredients that the soil doesn’t require. If you follow the advice from your soil test, this advice will

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Seed Bed Preparation is Crucial

Seed bed preparation is extremely important in growing successful food plots. Many planting failures can be attributed to poor seedling survival or lack of germination due to incorrect planting depth and poor seed bed prep. This is especially critical when planting small seeds like clover, chicory, brassicas, or alfalfa.

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Stalking the Badlands of North Dakota

Hunting at what appears to be the edge of the world is more than surreal, it takes your breath away but allows you to continue breathing. It’s sensory overload without being so overwhelming that the world as you know it ceases to exist at that moment. It takes days of mornings, work whistles, dog kisses, and mundane trips to the supermarket after to realize how amazing that one hunt was.

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Hunters, Liars, and other Fairy Tales

"That eagle swooped down and took ‘em both in her talons. We were going to shoot the 'yote but the eagle said she had kids to feed, and let’s be honest; it’d be unpatriotic to take food away from baby eagles," he said.

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Mark Owen Explains the Future of Trophy Deer Hunting In Ohio

In the State of Ohio, this buck scores as the number two archery buck ever taken. On the Pope and Young measuring system, my buck should score either in the top 15 or top 10 bucks ever harvested with a compound bow.

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How Mark Owen Took His Ohio Bow Buck That Scored 256

I believe this buck had lived his entire life in that 90-acre woodlot between the two fields, because no one else in the county ever had seen this deer. All the property around this spot was corn fields and bean fields. So, these deer that I was seeing on the trail camera really didn’t have any close-by cover where they could hide in – other than this woodlot. The buck had everything he needed –

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How Mark Owen Got to the Stand in the Dark without Spooking the Huge Ohio Buck

For 8 days, from the time I had permission to hunt the big buck, until the day I climbed into the tree stand, I hardly ate. I had butterflies in my stomach the entire week. I really didn’t realize I wasn’t eating. All I could think about was trying to use my mental powers to make sure that buck would come in on opening day. Too, I was thinking how I would walk into the

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Mark Owen’s Dream Comes True When He Hunts a Monster Ohio Bow Buck

That was on September 21, one week before the season opened when the landowner told me he wanted me to hunt the first day of bow season and have the first chance at this buck. The 21st held a lot of meaning for me, because my father, Jim Owen, passed away at the age of 62 on April 21 from a massive heart attack. He was an outdoorsman, a life-long trapper and a coon and

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The 256-inch Dream Season Buck

The story of how he found the deer, how he got permission to take the deer, and the agony of his defeat before the thrill of his victory makes this story unusual, exciting and a dream come true. This week Owen gives us the secrets of finding big bucks and getting permission to hunt them, as well as the techniques he used to pinpoint when and where that buck would appear, and the way he

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QDMA Offers Student Scholarships to Attend Deer Steward Courses

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) will award deserving students with scholarships to attend a Deer Steward course in 2014. Applications will be accepted from high school juniors and seniors or college students who are interested in a career in wildlife management.

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U.S. Hunters Set New Record-Low Harvest Rate of Yearling Bucks

More 1.5-year-old bucks (yearlings) are getting a pass from deer hunters than at any time in modern history, according to data gathered by QDMA for its 2014 Whitetail Report, now available free online. Only 37 percent of antlered bucks killed by hunters in the United States were yearlings, down from over 62 percent in 1988, the year QDMA was founded.

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