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Why Carbines Are the Best Big Woods Buck Rifles
The modern hunting world is obsessed with long-range shooting. From the rise in popularity of rifles like the 6.5 Creedmoor to thousand-yard gun ranges and shooting courses popping up like new Starbucks locations, it seems like every hunter wants to dial it in at a distance. Now, I’m not saying...
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Announcing New Whitetail EDU Video Series
What do deer eat, and when?
How do mature bucks travel across the landscape?
What is the most important calling sequence for luring in big deer?
These questions, and many more, are about to be addressed by our resident whitetail geeks, Mark Kenyon and Tony Peterson. The launch of this new Whitetail...
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Ohio Hunter Kills One of World's Biggest Whitetails
A hunter in Ohio took down a massive 12-point whitetail in October of this year, and recently released scoring indicates it’s one for the record books.
Scorers with Buckmasters Whitetail Trophy Records (BTR) measured Jason Thomas’s enormous typical buck at 208 ⅝”, which makes it the new Buckmasters...
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Running a Trapline Can Make You a Better Public Land Deer Hunter
I started my trapping career on the game lands of central North Carolina. By that time, I had already spent a decade hunting public-land deer and thought I had a pretty good grasp on the process. I had no idea that my winter trapping adventures would teach me not only all about furbearers but even...
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How Whitetail Hunters Can Overcome Public Land Overcrowding
It’s a near-constant drumbeat in many hunting circles. The public land is just too crowded. It’s a blanket statement tossed around, at least partially, to blame folks like me for promoting public land whitetail hunting too much. It’s also a good statement to use if you want to explain away how you...
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Massive Deer Smuggling Bust Hits 22 Suspects with 1,200 Charges
Texas game wardens announced yesterday that 22 suspects have been charged with 1,200 violations related to illegal whitetail smuggling and black-market wildlife trade.
The smuggling operation encompassed three deer breeding facilities, ten release sites, one deer management pen, and three illegal...
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3 Simple Land Improvement Projects that Will Help You Kill More Bucks
Last winter, at least in the Upper Midwest where I live, was dreamy. If you’re not passionate about sledding or building snowmen, it was dreamy anyway. We didn’t get any real snow to speak of, and for me, that meant I had a lot of time to work on my small deer properties.
Every other week, I drove...
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The Realities of Travel Hunting for Whitetails
It doesn’t take long to browse YouTube before you find that there’s an unlimited amount of hunting content. For better or worse, you don’t have to be a pro to upload your hunting adventures. You can watch everything from seasoned hunters, like the Element crew, chase big bucks across the country to...
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New Research Confirms The Moon Doesn’t Affect Deer Movement
Like the UFO poster hanging in agent Fox Mulder’s office states, I want to believe…that maybe the moon and deer movement are connected. Personally, I’ve never considered moon phase when hunting, but I know plenty of hunters who live and die by the moon phase and position.
The theory that moon phase...
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3 Men Cited for Poaching 34-Point Buck
Update: After a two-day trial, a jury found Alex and Dion Laffey not guilty of shooting the deer before legal shooting hours or using artificial light. Dion pleaded no contest to failing to register a deer and was fined $387, along with losing hunting and fishing privileges for a year. According to...
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Photos: Record-Book Whitetail Found Dead in Ohio
Jason Kline has been hunting a once-in-a-lifetime whitetail in northwest Ohio for the last four seasons. That pursuit came to an end this weekend when Kline finally got his hands on the buck’s rack—but it wasn’t the conclusion he hoped for.
Kline found the long-expired buck while shed hunting on...
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Official Scorers Confirm New West Virginia Whitetail Record
Jody Dalton killed a massive whitetail with his bow in Wyoming County, West Virginia, on Nov. 6, 2020. He speculated it would beat the current state record of 188 ⅞ inches but needed to wait 60 days to get an official score. On Jan. 13, 2021, official scorers measured the buck at West Virginia...
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Father Fatally Shoots Son in Ohio Hunting Accident
Here’s a tragic reminder that wearing blaze orange and knowing your target are so important. Last week during Ohio’s week-long rifle deer season, a father accidentally shot and killed his son during their annual hunting trip in Delaware County.
The incident occurred while the father-son duo was...
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Video: Whitetail Buck Fights Angus Bull
Hunter Weber of Buckley, Illinois, makes the rounds scouting for deer almost every day in November. Despite spending tons of time observing whitetails during the rut, he witnessed something last weekend that he’s never seen before. In an encounter that lasts just over a minute, a young whitetail...
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