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Kill More Whitetails by Letting Them Smell You?

It may sound like a crazy concept, but letting whitetails smell you can send deer to the perfect area to hunt them.
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Managing for Whitetails: Don’t Forget About Fawns

Help your fawn crop now for better hunting down the road.
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3 Daypacks for Deer Hunting

Need a new daypack for deer season? Check out these three topnotch offerings.
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Understanding Deer Sight and Hearing

Learning how a deer’s eyes and ears work can go a long way toward helping you keep from getting busted this hunting season.
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Deer Hunting Clothing: 8 Top Picks

Not sure which company makes the best clothing for your style of deer hunting? Here are eight great picks.
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5 Tips for Placing Trail Cameras

Where you place trail cams is certainly important, but it’s also vital to avoid leaving behind a human odor calling card.
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5 Can’t-Miss Trail Camera Locations for Whitetails

Utilize trail camera surveillance technology to track summer deer movement and improve your fall whitetail hunting success.
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Hunting Waterholes During the Rut

Hunting in-woods waterholes is one of the most overlooked rut tactics. A mature whitetail buck pushing his body hard during the breeding phase needs water, and even more so when the mercury rises.
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5 Tips for Choosing Whitetail Camo

An in-depth look at the underdiscussed technical aspects of camo clothing for whitetail hunting.
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Savage 110 Apex Hunter XP

Available in a wide variety of cartridges, the Savage 110 Apex Hunter XP is packaged with a 3-9X40mm Vortex Crossfire II scope.
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Review: Winchester Super X4 Cantilever Buck

The Super X4 Cantilever Buck hits all the right points as an accurate, reliable and soft-shooting slug gun.
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Improve Your Archery Skill With Offseason 3-D Shooting

Fill the gap until next archery deer season with family fun, no pressure, perfect practice on a 3-D course near you.
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A Food Plotter’s Guide to Herbicides

Proper use of herbicides can help prevent weed growth in food plots, resulting in more high-quality food for whitetails.
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Crossbow Review: Ravin R10

The new Ravin R10 crossbow is unique, unusual and surprisingly accurate.
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Busting 4 Whitetail Hunting Myths

Many whitetail hunters lack a basic understanding of whitetail deer biology. Do you?
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Hunter Fitness: Are You Whitetail Strong?

You don’t have to be a marathon runner or CrossFit competitor to kill a big buck, but being physically fit can increase your odds for success in the whitetail woods.
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2018-2019 Whitetail Harvest Increases in Several States

Deer hunters across the United States experienced a lot of success during 2018-2019 whitetail seasons. Here’s a recap of the numbers from four states.
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5 Summer Food Plot Pitfalls

Summer food plots are one of the best ways to ensure your deer are receiving the amount of protein they need to grow larger antlers, add bodyweight and birth healthier fawns. However, you’ll want to be sure to avoid five pitfalls that can ruin your efforts.
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Sig Sauer Elite Hunting Ammo

Whitetail hunters who prefer either the .243 Win. or .30-06 will be pleased to learn these two cartridges are now available in the Sig Sauer Elite Hunting lineup.
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Hunter Safety System Harnesses

Hunter Safety System updated its Hybrid and Ultra-Light harnesses to make them lighter and more comfortable.
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How Do You Figure Out If There Are Too Many Does on Your Property?

Too many does on your property can lead to a long, drawn-out rut. That not only decreases the intense rut-specific behavior so many hunters live for, it can also lower deer populations down the road.
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Lessons From Last Deer Season

Now is the perfect time to reflect on the 2018 deer season, and begin planning for this fall’s hunt.
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What’s the Perfect Buck-to-Doe Ratio?

When it comes to whitetail management, a one-to-one buck-to-doe ratio isn't necessarily the best thing going for your deer herd — or your hunting.
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Savage Arms AXIS

The Savage Arms AXIS bolt-action rifle has a reputation for reliability and accuracy, and it retails for only $375.
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A Father-and-Son Coues Hunt to Remember

Hunts with family are always memorable but at times something totally unexpected — and thrilling — happens to make an adventure stand out even more.
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3 Year-Round Supplements for Whitetails

To ensure good health for bucks, does and fawns, it pays to supplement a whitetail’s natural diet with essential vitamins and minerals.
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Fertilizing Mast Trees for Deer

Did you know you can encourage select mast trees to produce bumper acorn crops year after year? Here’s how.
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Poachers Caught When Undead Whitetail Deer Wakes Up in Truck

Two men in New York were caught by authorities after a whitetail deer they shot illegally jumped out of their pickup.
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Making Deer Beds

Just as we can affect whitetail feeding locations with food plots and more desirable native forages, we can also have a significant affect on deer bedding locations.