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Opposition to Baiting Deer Gets Louder in Georgia

Former wildlife experts in Georgia voice opposition to baiting deer. What's at stake? And does data indicate baiting improves a deer hunter's success?
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Wisconsin’s Hunting Culture Blamed in Part for the State’s Drunken Reputation

Ten Wisconsin cities rank among the 20 drunkest cities in the U.S. and a recent article suggest the state's hunting culture is partly responsible.
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Do Some Texas Schools Close for Opening Day of Hunting Season?

Texas students don't technically get a day off of school to hunt but, shoot, hunting is an early-morning pursuit and what's a missed homeroom period anyway?
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Whitetail Journal's Quick Look: 2018 Hunting Apparel and Boots

2018 hunting apparel and boots: It's all just another style of clothing until, say, a lightweight outer shell keeps you supremely dry during a long sit. Then apparel becomes gear — essential gear.
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Hunting Deer in Velvet: Tennessee Becomes the Latest to Adopt an Early-Hunting Period

Tennessee becomes the latest state to make hunting deer in velvet possible. What makes these hunts attractive and what can a deer hunter expect from early-season deer?
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Could This Deer Fawn Survive Without Its Mother?

A fawn hops in the backseat of a police car before reuniting with its mother. But what if this reunion hadn't happened? Could this fawn survive?
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Bowhunting Philadelphia: Do the City's People Approve of Urban Deer Hunting?

Currently hunting is not legal in John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, but a plan has been proposed to legalize urban deer hunting to thin the whitetail population.
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New Research Zeros in on How CWD is Spreading

Before there was a clear understanding of how CWD prions could and could not be transmitted by the environment, there was always the question of when an infected area was free of the disease.
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Oregon Hunters, Police Offer Reward for Information on Persons Responsible for Maimed Deer

Two to three deer were reportedly maimed by poachers using arrows equipped with field points. Responsible person(s) face charges in Oregon.
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Q&A: How Does This Deer Survive Floating Down a River on an Ice Sheet?

While this news story reminds us of a deer’s incredible agility, it also prompts questions about a deer's cold endurance and will to survive.
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Reconciling Death In the Turkey Woods

A hunter kills two birds and the turkey woods is a classroom. The instructor is death. The lesson: unfair, but primal.
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Wildlife artist finds his work reproduced as tattoos

If you'd like to see wildlife-inspired tattoos, just scroll through this Instagram account and look for the occasional shirtless, white hunter in a sea of oil paintings and sketches.
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Ancient turkey bones in Mexico offer strange clues

"It's hard to tell whether a turkey at a grave site is meant as a companion, a snack, or a status symbol, but any of those options elevate the turkey above an ordinary bird," says Aurelie Manin, an archaeologist at the University of York.