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Shoot Or Don’t Shoot #14: Southern Michigan

Mark Kenyon — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:07 +0000

By Mark Kenyon Last year we started a popular series of posts in which we shared a photo or two of a buck that either I or a fellow reader had gotten trailcam pics of, and then let you the reader vote in a poll on whether or not you would shoot that deer if [...]

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Getting The Most Bang For Your Buck From Whitetail Habitat Improvement Projects

Mark Kenyon — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:38 +0000

By Mark Kenyon For many whitetail hunters and property owners, the ultimate goal is to create a paradise of sorts for deer on their property – where they can live 365 days a year, content with all the food, cover, and safety they could ever ask for. As grand as this dream is, it is [...]

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Friday Morning Mashup 5/17/13

Mark Kenyon — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:48:56 +0000

By Mark Kenyon I’m seriously getting the itch. With the warm weather, crops going in, and velvet antlers starting to grow – it’s really starting to feel like go time. Hunting season is just a few months away now, and my blood is pumping. That said, this past week I spent some time...

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Giving Back and Getting More

Mark Kenyon — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:55:59 +0000

By Aaron Farley I will probably never forget that summer evening standing on a dock on Lake Nottely. The weather was perfect; and the brim were buzzing around the dock like teenage girls waiting to get into a Justin Bieber concert. You could not ask for better conditions to help someone go fishing...

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Deer Drives – Good or Bad?

Mark Kenyon — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:39:35 +0000

By Dan Infalt During gun deer season a lot of deer get killed by hunters doing drives. As most folks know, drives are when hunters gather in groups and surround bedding areas and push deer out into the open for their partners to shoot. Some of the biggest bucks each year are shot during gun [...]

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Treestands Are Hung – Let the Countdown Begin!

Mark Kenyon — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:14:17 +0000

By Cody Altizer This past weekend, while many hunters across the country were still focused on trying to shoot big toms in the face with their 12 gauge shotguns, my brother and I had our minds fixed in a familiar place, the whitetail woods. In fact, our minds weren’t just in the whitetail woods;...

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8 Deer Hunting DVDs Worth Buying In 2013

Mark Kenyon — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:19:42 +0000

By Mark Kenyon Spring is most certainly here, and summer is knocking on the door. As a whitetail hunter this means a lot of things – think food plots, archery practice, setting stands, etc. But for the avid whitetail junkie, this also means “DVD season”. It’s this time of...

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39% of Bucks Harvested In 2011 Were Yearlings, Down From 61% In 1989

Mark Kenyon — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:34:29 +0000

By Mark Kenyon According to the QDMA’s 2013 Whitetail Report, in the most recent data (2011) harvest of yearling bucks on average was about 39% of the total. What’s amazing is how different this situation was just 22 years ago. In 1989, that number was 61%! Can you believe that?...

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Just Give It Away – Sharing The Way Of The Hunt With Newcomers

Mark Kenyon — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:11:52 +0000

By Aaron Farley My connection with hunting and the outdoors lifestyle is quite different than most of my friends who hunt seriously. Just about everyone I know today who hunts started when they were just kids. Almost all of them had fathers and grandfathers who hunted, but this was not my...

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Friday Morning Mashup 5/10/13

Mark Kenyon — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:00:34 +0000

By Mark Kenyon Happy Friday Nation! This week we’ve got a whole slew of great whitetail related blog posts from across the web, so dig in and enjoy. Have a great weekend, get outside, and stay Wired To Hunt! Deer Hunting: What Fawn-Drop Dates Can Teach You About the Rut – Big Buck...

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