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What’s Your Favorite Whitetail Caliber?

July 14, 2010

Hunters are a contentious bunch. They love to debate, argue and downright fight over the best gear and tactics. A favorite topic that comes up time and time again is the debate over the “best whitetail caliber.”
Here’s the short version. It’s the caliber you shoot best with deadly results. In most states legal calibers begin [...]

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Of Course I Need Another Mounted Deer

January 13, 2010

With many of the hunting seasons wrapping up you may be faced with the decision on whether or not to mount a buck you shot this past season. I’m faced with this dilemma each and every season. It’s not that I shoot giant bucks every year, but each hunt has its own special memory and [...]

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It Was So Cold That…

January 11, 2010

Do you remember the old Johnny Carson joke like that started with “it was so cold that.?” The audience would respond “how cold was it?” That’s how I felt in Iowa last week. It was downright, bone-chilling cold.
I feel sorry for the whitetails. They were really struggling to get enough feed, but fortunately the late [...]

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Way More Than Just Making Venison Jerky

January 8, 2010

The end of the last days of deer season are sweeping the country from north to south. Even Texas doesn’t have much more than a month to go with extended management seasons and doe harvests. As much as it pains to think it, another deer season is nearly in the history books.
So what’s next for [...]

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Off to Iowa

January 4, 2010

Yes, there are still a few opportunities for buck hunting and I’m taking advantage of one this week in Iowa. I start my hunt today and I’m praying for the coldest weather imaginable.
Why cold? It takes tremendous stress on a rut-weary buck to make it move during shooting light this time of year. That stress [...]

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5 Top Tips for Cold Weather Deer Hunting

December 18, 2009

The calendar says cold weather should be here already, and it will probably show up before the final gun sounds on the 2009-10 deer hunting season. So here are some quick tips to help you stay warm on the stand in the season’s final days:
1) Wear an insulated hat. Most places ball caps are standard [...]

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Litter Box Train Your Deer

December 16, 2009

I was well into my second mug of caffeine-jolting java the other morning when I almost spit up a mouthful while catching a story on the CBS Early Show. There, right before my redneck-trained eyes, was a deer on TV living with a family right in their house!
I kid you not! Approximately five years ago [...]

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The Time is Now For Late-Season Success

December 11, 2009

It’s the weekend and if you’re lucky enough to live in the northern half of the country where the snow smacked home the hardest, and have an open tag, make a plan to go hunting. Some areas of the Midwest and Northeast have seen more than a foot of snow with temperatures dipping from the [...]

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Hunting the Corn

November 26, 2009

Here’s a quick update and a photo from my latest hunting spot. It’s a waterhole surrounded by standing corn. With the harvest way behind corn is everywhere so I hooked up with Cody Warne to get some corn action. NAH TV producer Melissa Bachman was with me yesterday when we literally had bucks diving into [...]

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Close Encounter

November 25, 2009

The rut is still on and I proved it the last few days by rattling in a bunch of bucks. The result is a great show for NAH TV for the 2010 season. I teamed up with NAH TV producer Melissa Bachman and she worked hard to capture it all.
If you want to have calling [...]

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Tone Down Your Calling

November 24, 2009

I love to call deer and I have called in a pile already this fall including the big buck in the previous blog, but you need to tone down your calls when bucks are in close. The problem most of us have, me included, is that calling is so much fun, but when a buck [...]

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What A Buck!

November 19, 2009

Take a look at this dude! This could be one of the oldest bucks I shot and I shot him the other day in my old stomping grounds of central South Dakota. He’s got a monster neck, body and rack on him. Sure, he’s a little weak in the point department, but you can barely [...]

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I Know. I Know. It's Not A Whitetail.

November 17, 2009

I know I said I was going to write about whitetails for November, but this buck was just too good to resist. Could you pass a buck up like this right under your stand? Kansas was too hot so I sped back to my old stomping grounds and after watching whitetail after whitetail slip through [...]

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Mr. Lucky

November 12, 2009

I’m after Mr. Lucky…again. I’m writing this blog from Kansas and it’s hot. The rut is strarting, but the Midwest is having a slight heat wave and it’s suppressing the rutting activity. So far we’ve only one buck chasing and one buck scraping. It’s been slow.
On the other hand, my good friend Greg Gilman has [...]

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It's Whitetail Time

October 28, 2009

I know. Whitetail season has been open for more than a month in many locations and I’ve already seen photos of several bruisers busting the 200-inch mark. For me it’s my first big jump into whitetail hunting after chasing pronghorn, muleys and elk for most of the first half of the season.
I’m beginning my eastward [...]

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