Decent shot opportunities are few and far between when bowhunting on pressured public land, and this easy tip will help you make the shot when the pressure is on.
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Dan Schmidt explains some of the different rests he uses when crossbow hunting for deer, and provides insights on which ones are best for certain situations.
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When was the first-ever photograph taken of a deer? The year might surprise you, as will the species of the deer that was photographed for the first time in the U.S. It’s amazing how far photography has come in the past 25 years. When I started working here at D&DH, we relied 100% on color-slide […]
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Dan Schmidt provides insights on how to drastically shorten the time it takes to recover that hard-earned venison.
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Chalk this one up as a hard lesson in buck fever … and perhaps being a little too eager on the trigger. This is a good lesson for all gun-deer hunters on what not to do when a deer comes running at you for what appears to be an easy opportunity. This obviously wasn’t his […]
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These early summer days have most of us enjoying the heat but also looking forward to those first cool mornings in autumn … and bowhunting season! If you are planning out new food plots for deer — or merely getting ready to replant those from last year — take a couple of extra minutes right […]
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What is the best field point to shoot out of your crossbow? There really isn’t a right or wrong answer, well, depending upon which type of crossbow you are shooting. Older-style crossbows aren’t picky — you can get by with about anything. However, selection changes the newer you get and also how fast that crossbow […]
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Two real-world examples of how to use screening to reduce the pressure we put on the deer and help funnel them past our stands.
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It doesn’t matter if you hunt deer, turkeys, pheasants, ducks, geese, bears or anything in between, there will come a day when you’ll be on the receiving end of some really mean-spirited jealousy. Here’s my 2 cents on this topic, based on more than 25 years of near-daily encounters (be that in-person or third hand […]
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Can we ever head into mature buck sanctuaries or should we avoid them forever? Steve Bartylla says how he approaches these areas.
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Whether you like growing apples for deer and other wild game animals, or you just want to grow the best-tasting fruit for eating, baking, or making sauce or cider, here is my completely biased Top 5 list for this week’s Dan Schmidt Deer blog post. I must preface this conversation that apple trees are like […]
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Don’t get me wrong: I wish I could have saved this blog post for April Fool’s, but it’s too good. It’s real a doozy. Best of all: It’s rooted in a real-life breaking news story that you would not expect to be reading in 2022. First, the news: Virginia lawmakers announce — thank goodness — […]
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We all love venison, but these famed explorers took it to gut-busting extremes – by our modern standards. How extreme, you ask? How does 6,500 calories a day sound? Not much is known about the specific deer hunting exploits of famed explorers Lewis & Clark’s team, but what we do know is they loved venison […]
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It’s that time of year again when cabin fever gives way to that ever-burning desire to be out in the woods. This time of year, however, is when we all aspire to find shed antlers and, hopefully, a matching set to the next buck of our dreams. Shed hunting for deer antlers is a relatively […]
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Not kidding. We were aware of some pretty bizarre rules and regulations in such Western states, but this one takes the cake. If you want to take your family out for a late-winter or early spring walk through the woods looking for shed antlers — heck, if you merely want to go BY YOURSELF — […]
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Afraid life tossed me a curve on Friday. So, Let’s talk using weeds to help germination rates, today. When it applies to top seeded plantings (plantings from seeds merely tossed right on top of the soil), grasses and weeds can be used to create a blanket over the seeds. The result in around half […]
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What a fascinating look back at modern deer hunting’s early days in the photograph shared recently by our friends at Hunter Nation. We don’t know the origin of this image or deer camp, but it’s a safe bet that it’s from Wisconsin, Michigan or possibly Minnesota. Our best guess is the happy gang filled this […]
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It has taken more than 20 years, but some states are learning that the so-called war on chronic wasting disease is not going to be won via knee-jerk reactions. And at least one state is changing its tune on how they deal with reports of sick deer. For years, states have been wasting precious resources […]
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So, today let’s talk timing and location for our mineral licks. This will be pretty straight forward. The timing is now on through the end of Sept. Right now is when the deer are both trying to recover from the rut (remember, Mr. Big commonly drops 25-30% body weight during the rut. If a […]
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