Entries Tagged Steve Bartylla

Whitetails often travel out of their way to cross a fence at the easiest point. You can use this fact to your advantage by altering fences to create deer funnels.

Simply throwing down some seed does not make a food plot for whitetail deer. If you want action, you must take action and do it right.

The best bet of tagging big bucks during the second rut lies in shifting our placement strategies to revolve around the hottest food source that the area holds.

Learn more about the whitetail’s second rut from veteran hunter Steve Bartylla and how to bowhunt it successfully.

Veteran bowhunter and land manager Steve Bartylla offers proven tips and tricks for hunting from treestands and blinds for whitetail deer.

Are you a scent skeptic? Think these powerful potions are a gimmick? Think again. When used in the right situations and under the right conditions, they can be your magic wand.

Think you have no chance to kill a huge buck on heavily hunted public ground? Think again.

Early-season doe sightings combined with some detective work can lead you to some of the hottest hunting of the year when the rut kicks in.

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.

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.

Lines on a map may be your line to some serious results in the whitetail woods.

Think you have no chance to kill a huge buck on heavily hunted public ground? Think again.