10 Lessons from 50 Years of Whitetail Hunting When I think about how long I’ve been hunting deer, it’s honestly a little embarrassing. The year was 1972, which means Richard Nixon was president, the ...
For most whitetail hunters, the West’s steep, conifer-covered mountainsides—as high as 6,000 feet—don’t usually come to mind as ideal whitetail habitat. More like good habitat for muleys. But ...
This story, “The Trophy Trap,” was originally published in the November 2006 issue of Outdoor Life. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ...
I probably should’ve shot the first buck I saw. My buddy Justin Moore and I were hiking down a switchback trail on a western Oregon hillside, through prime blacktail country, but with our attention ...
Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...
A first whitetail deer hunt and particularly a successful harvest can be life changing. However, not everyone has access to huntable land or a mentor that can help. New hunters are not likely educated ...
The patchwork matrix of whitetail management philosophies from one property to another, all across the country, is varied and complex. Though the various state wildlife commissions set harvest or kill ...
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7 deer hunting lessons rookies ignore — until they eat tags
Deer hunting has a way of humbling people who think buying a tag and a rifle is the whole... The post 7 deer hunting lessons ...
TOWER, MINN. - The Department of Natural Resources public-input meeting here Wednesday night -- not far from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness --was similar in many ways to area meetings that ...
This weekend, tens of thousands of Minnesotans will retreat to places that are as much a state of mind as they are physical structures with surrounding acreage. Deer camps. Sometimes centered by mouse ...
It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ridge in New York’s Hudson River Valley, where, on a clear day, you could see the Empire State ...
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