One of my favorite things to do is deer scouting. And between before, after and during season, my favorite time for it is after the deer season ends. Because, where I live, most of the bucks don’t drop their antlers until March, there is time to get after the post season scouting — and actually learn important things about my hunting area.
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Learn About the Second Whitetail Deer Rut Looking back, I can not thank enough the men that took...
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When it was daylight we walked to the area that we had hunted yesterday. We found John’s arrow and looked it over. It had blood on it. However, there was no more blood visible in our immediate area.
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This year, my long time bowhunting buddy John Askew and I crowded into an old tin tractor shed to bowhunt bucks. Our most recent hunt was on a weekend and it was a good one.
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After they found the moose pit Terry Brew scattered moose scent around the sizeable section of...
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Yesterday morning, at 4:00am, Rick Philippi departed from DFW Airport on his flight to Alberta. Rick was ready to hunt moose. Moose Outfitter Ryk Visscher was ready to meet Rick. And I was ready to put his bowhunt online, from my home office.
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Ever wonder where all of the bucks go, right at the time that you are beginning your bowhunting season? This video explains what happens and why there is a yearly shift in buck movement and behavior soon after the bucks shed their velvet.
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I am ready for my 2019 Moose Hunt with Ryk Visscher’s Hunting Adventures in Alberta. My bags are packed. I’m going as light as possible and only taking the things that I truly need. My hunt begins this Wednesday, September 25, and will last 8 days.
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Back at the Point area four days later I see one of the first bucks to shed its velvet. He came from the south and jumped the fence at a long time buck crossing 35 yards from my blind.
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This is an area that I’ve bowhunted since 1984. There are three intersecting fence lines here that meet at the only internal road, an old and very rugged two-track that runs east to west through 700 acres of the 1,000 acre property.
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In late August and early September the bone of the antlers stop growing. So does the velvet around the antler’s bone. Then that velvet constricts. And lastly, the velvet comes loose from the finished antler.
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If you are hunting deer it’s vital to hunt where deer movement is during the daylight. Their daylight movement is much smaller than their 24 hour movements. Jeff Sturgis of Whitetail Habitat Solutions checks in…
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