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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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Deer Decoys Done Right During the Rut
According to my wife, I’m a late bloomer with a lot of things. She’s not wrong, but one that she doesn’t care about but which bothers me a lot, is that I’m just starting to really incorporate decoys into my deer hunting strategy. I’ve spent so much time hunting public land and other pressured places...
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Mark Kenyon’s Whitetail Field Notes: Preparing for the Rut
Opening day has come and gone. The October Lull is fading in the rearview mirror. And, now, the whitetail rut is staring us right in the hairy eyeball. It’s just about here.
As you might have guessed by now, my opening day plan did not go as I’d hoped. In fact, the two bucks I’ve been after in...
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Don’t Fall for These Whitetail Rut Excuses
As the saying goes, there’s a grain of truth in every lie, just like when your hunting buddy “passes” up a buck to let him grow another year. How many arrows did you start the hunt with, bud? All joking aside, there’s definitely an ounce of truth to every widely held whitetail belief.
But the fact...
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How to Hunt Pressured Deer Camps
Some of my first hunting experiences occurred at a deer camp. Looking back, that camp persisted on nostalgia and the culture it fostered in a rural Mississippi community.
Occasionally, someone would shoot a big buck, and I don’t mean big for the pine hills of Mississippi. They would have been big...
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How to Actually Improve Your Deer Hunting This Year
Few things substitute experience and time in the field. While it can be tempting to think a new piece of gear can help you level up, it rarely works that way. As a gear editor and reviewer, I’ve used some of the best hunting gear money can buy, and I can tell you that no single piece of equipment...
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Superstitions Probably Won’t Help You Fill Tags, But They Can Be Fun
When I was first starting out deer hunting, signature hats were all of the rage. I don’t mean like the flat-brim craze that you see in the western hunting crowd these days. I mean goofy styles that could set you apart from your bow-toting brethren.
This has a lot to do with Chuck Adams. If you’re...
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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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