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Celebrate Life WITH HUMBLE APPRECIATION
If you have followed our online videos or D&DH-TV on Pursuit Channel over the years, you might know that I am not shy when it comes to professing my faith. It’s just who I am, how I was raised, and what I believe deep down in my heart. This is usuall
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Readers Recoil
I RECENTLY READ the article “Top Mistakes Hunters Make During the Early Season,” and I have to agree with all three main points. Now … add the stress of public hunting lands, and the guys who walk 10 feet into the woods, 25 minutes before sunset to s
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Daniel E. Schmidt SENIOR EDITOR Chris Berens CREATIVE DIRECTOR Rebecca Vogel ONLINE CONTENT SPECIALIST Sara Sommercorn DEER RESEARCH FIELD EDITOR John J. Ozoga FIELD CONTRIBUTORS Steve Bartylla, Bob Zaiglin, Dr. Stephen Ditchkoff, Ste
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D+DF Community
Find us on Facebook FACEBOOK/DEERHUNTINGMAG TENNESSEE “DEER” FRIENDS, SIMPLE QUESTION: DO YOU LIKE OR LOATHE THE VELVET DEER HUNT? JUST CURIOUS! I would be a fan of it if I felt people actually read and followed the rules of not hunting public land d
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Just One Misstep
I awoke early Sept. 22, 2016, with a doctor’s appointment in 90 minutes. The sun was exceedingly bright as it shined over Lake Huron, appearing as though it was on the hood of my car. I had a lot to do that day and believed my preparation for bow sea
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Weather To Hunt
I wrestled a dead limb from the leaf litter and hurled it at the red fox. They brought $4.75 in bounty, and the pelt was worth a buck. For me, at 15, not much rivaled the dream of taking a fox. He jumped, quickly appraised the situation, and vanished
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Finding Needles in The Big-woods Haystack
A young deer helped me arrow the big-woods Wisconsin buck. Mr. Big passed within bow range several minutes after legal light, but I couldn’t see my pin well enough and had to watch him pass. However, a little buck’s antics outside the pocket where Mr
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THE Fate of FAWNS
There is a period of a few weeks after a fawn is born that is mostly hidden to the prying eyes of humans. We occasionally get a glimpse into this secret period when we are fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time. Maybe we stumble
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Hard Work Earns The Buck
Work ranks among the many anchors of my life, along with family, nature, the outdoors and friends. Yes work, in the form of making a living (I’m fortunate to do things I love, though I’m not getting wealthy) and also effort expended doing things I lo
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How Walk-in Hunting Programs Happen
License dollars, surcharges and special fees support walk-in hunting programs, but federal funding is critical. Programs such as the Voluntary Public Access-Habitat Improvement Program, part of the Farm Bill, provide important money for those kinds o
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OF HOGS & DEER
It was a comfortably cool mid-December evening in southern Texas as my good friend David Shashy and I stealthily approached the southern edge of a 30-acre grain field littered with oats. We were in Dimmit County, the heart of big deer country, where
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10 Ways To Improve Your Entry And Exit Routes
Having proper entry and exit routes is one of the most important aspects of a good hunting strategy. The best hunting location will diminish quickly if you spook deer between the woods and the truck. I believe this is one of the biggest factors separ
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Walk In For heartland Whitetails
As an avid upland-bird hunter in one part of my soul and a committed whitetail fanatic in another, it’s sometimes difficult to balance my passions in autumn. It’s a good “problem” to have, and I always figure out a way. The pursuits don’t have to be
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Roe Deer: europe’s Whitetail
I magine a deer species that inhabits an entire continent. It can be found from the Arctic Circle to the subtropical shores of a warm sea, from high alpine to lowland swamps, in open plains to urban parks and gardens, and even in rocky semi-deserts.
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Reading The Rub
Oct. 6, 2012: Dawn arrived cool and overcast, just the right conditions for photographing autumn whitetails. My plan that morning was to set up near a prime clover field in hopes of photographing any deer behavior that might occur. I didn’t have to w
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BREEDER BUCKS COME IN ALL SHAPES & SIZES
The breeding system of white-tailed deer involves formation of a tending bond, through which a buck courts, guards and tends an estrous female. Traditionally, researchers believed a strict breeding hierarchy results, wherein relatively few of the mos
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The Oldest Roebuck, The Shortest Hunt
I’d hunted six weeks without an opportunity at a roebuck. Then it rained all day, and conditions were right for one of my best spots: a triangular opening surrounded by three bedding areas. To get through the bedding area undetected in the evening re
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Don’t Underestimate Trapping
A lot of habitat managers are either just getting into trapping or seriously considering it, and for good reason. With each year, the results of the anti-fur push from the late ‘80s are becoming clearer. Unfortunately, the animals they were “protecti
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Skillet Sense
No cooking tool does as much, as well, as the good old-fashioned cast-iron skillet. Cast iron has been a preferred choice for cooks around the world for centuries, beginning with the horsemen of ancient Mongolia (a culture which knew something about
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3 Wild Turkey Creations
Since many Deer & Deer Hunting readers extend their hunting season into the spring woods for turkeys, it’s worth noting that the cast-iron skillet is a wonderful tool for cooking up your gobbler. Here are three options. With a light layer of olive oi
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Beanfield Rifles
When I shot my first white-tailed buck, I really had no clue how to hunt America’s favorite big game animal. Back in the late 1970s, I lived in Southern California where I was editor of a weekly outdoor newspaper. I grew up hunting mule deer and thei
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Aim Is The Game
Successful archers develop routines to get them through stressful shooting scenarios, whether it’s winning a 3D-tournament shoot-off or an opportunity at a season-making buck. These are checklists of sorts, step-by-step checkpoints to assure you do e
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Pursuit Community
FACEBOOK.COM/THEPURSUITCHANNEL INSTAGRAM.COM/PURSUITCHANNEL @PURSUITCHANNEL/TWEETS We all have our strengths. ADAM MUNCY: Hahahahah yea I’m guilty VERNON CASTLE: At 70 mph down the highway. DANIEL RIVERA: Priorities. MARY TEGTMEIER: Yep. MICHAEL MCCL
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New Gear
Designed especially for late-season hunting, this heavyweight parka is as warm as it gets when temperatures plummet. The quiet Tarnen™ camo triple-layer shell is equipped with InVelvet® fleece bonded to a windproof breathable film, and a soft Sherpa
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Chad Lytle’s Not-so little Buck
Chad Lytle hunts at home in Somerset County, PA, but before the season opened he drove to Ohio to hunt his new 400 acre lease in Ross County, where he had been seeing a massive buck on three trail cameras since July. Roughly a picture a day gave him
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Gifts Of TIME
Usually, the woods bring out my youth and always have. But today, I’m 65 and admit to feeling it a bit — you know — my age. The woods have always been a place to deliberately feel young; the invigorating hike, the chaste air. And with nothing yet in

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