Mark Kayser Blog - On the Trail with Mark Kayser

I love big antlers and if you ever visit my house you’ll immediately see my antler fascination. Still, during hunting season you can’t always find the buck with the biggest antlers. If I can’t find a giant (and I’m often in that circumstance) I try and hunt for mature deer.
That was the case while hunting [...]

Here’s another update from the road. I just wrapped an adrenaline week of bowhunting whitetails in central South Dakota’s grain country. Instead of hunting big blocks of timber I opted to hunt standing sunflowers and believe me, it was truly flower power!
My good friend Cody Warne operates Warne Ranches for pheasant and whitetail hunts. His [...]

It’s the rut. Get out and get after those whitetails. I am. You already know about calls, decoys and scents, but here’s a hunting location you might overlook. Hunt near water.
During the rut bucks are star athletes and while celebrity athletes guzzle Gatorade, wilderness athletes need water to keep going and going.
If I’m in a [...]

This week I’m back in my old stomping grounds of South Dakota archery hunting rutting whitetails. One of my good friends from Wyoming was over here the week prior and had a close encounter with a giant that he figured would come close to the state archery record. I’m wishing for that, but hoping for [...]