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E-Bikes for Deer Hunting

E-bikes (electric-powered mountain bikes) offer the latest deer hunting transportation — while also creating less noise and scent.
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Deer Hunters: Do You Believe in Whitetail Culling?

A massive study in southwest Texas indicates that culling “inferior” whitetail bucks isn’t the best way to build a better buck herd.
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5 Ways to Simplify the Whitetail Rut

Avoid frustration by keeping your whitetail rut hunting approach simple — and successful — with these five straightforward strategies.
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Food Plots vs Cover: What’s the Best Balance for Whitetail Habitat?

Too little of a good thing is a bad thing. Concerning whitetail habitat, is more of a good thing better?
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Stack the Deck for Pre-Rut Whitetails

5 proven pre-rut tactics for winning the whitetails game this October.
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Hunt Scrapes to Intercept Mature Whitetail Bucks

Whitetail bowhunters can put the odds in their favor by targeting scrapes. Here are the four proven steps to success.
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7 Strategies for Defeating the October Lull

Don’t sit home on the couch complaining about the October Lull. You can beat it with these seven strategies.
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Bowhunting Elk on Public Ground — Have Heart

Skill and luck certainly play a role in elk hunting success, especially on public land, but in the author’s opinion, the No. 1 factor is heart.
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Get a Leg Up on Early Season Whitetails

Timely scouting will reveal clues to where early season whitetails are feeding. The key to success is quickly forming a game plan based on this intel.
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Bowhunting Pronghorn — 4 Ways

Pronghorn success for bowhunters comes in many forms — especially when rains arrive to put a damper on waterhole ploys.
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Bowhunting Wyoming Pronghorns and Whitetails

Being away from home when you’re very ill is never good; it’s even worse when you’re on a bowhunt that’s been planned for many years.
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Premium Optics for Today’s Crossbows

With top-of-the-line crossbows rivaling custom rifle cost, it is time for superior optics to match what these bows offer.
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10 High-Performance Crossbows for 2021

Fast. Compact. Deadly accurate. These 10 modern-day crossbows are pushing the performance envelope to the extreme.
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How Much Draw Weight Do Bowhunters Need?

It’s a mistake to believe that bowhunters must shoot a heavy poundage bow to make lethal shots on deer and other big game.
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Bowhunting the Mountain Grizzly

When it comes to a bucket list ranking of big game, the mountain grizzly is sure to be at the top for many adventurous bowhunters.
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All About Stabilizers

A stable bow is an accurate bow.
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Bowhunting the West’s Big 3

Are you planning a bowhunt for one of the most popular western big game animals – elk, mule deer or pronghorn? Here’s how they’re the same, only different.
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10 New-for-2021 Flagship Compounds

This year’s lineup of flagship compounds from 10 top bow manufacturers feature the latest in smooth-shooting technology.
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Remembering an Old Bowhunting Friend

Early in his bowhunting career the author met Sage, an infantryman in WWII, and he never imagined the impact the man would have on his bowhunting — and his life.
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Bowhunting Brown Bears in Southeast Alaska

Creeping up salmon streams in the fall, bowhunting brown bears in southeast Alaska is not for the faint of heart!
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Conserving Our Public Hunting Lands

The definition of public land: Land owned by a government, specifically that part of the U.S. public domain subject to sale or disposal under the homestead laws.
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5 Keys to Improving Your Archery Accuracy

Don’t settle for paper-plate accuracy. Become a bow sniper with these advanced tips.
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Whitetail Management: Can You Have Too Many Deer?

Does it make sense to reduce the doe numbers on your property? One Midwest land manager says “no.”
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How to Become a Public Land ’10 Percenter’

The author picks the brains of four top-notch public land hunters.
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3 Top Whitetail States

If you want a legitimate chance at taking a world-class whitetail buck, you must hunt where such bucks exist.
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Whitetail Sanctuaries: Why It Makes Sense to Hike Through Them Occasionally

Should you avoid hiking into whitetail sanctuaries every day of the year? One deer biologist/hunter says, “no.”
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Is a Draw Hunt Your Best Bet for Western Big Game Success?

With point creep, low draw frequency and expensive application fees, your best bet for filling the freezer isn’t a western big game draw hunt.
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Tips for Booking an Outfitted Hunt

The key to a fulfilling outfitted hunt is choosing the right one for the hunt you want to make as well as your physical and financial limitations.
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A Level Crossbow Is an Accurate Crossbow

Remove cant (a tilted crossbow) from your shooting vocabulary.