September: Lets Fight
Next step after bucks shed their velvet they want to engage with other area bucks to show them how tough they are. There are several ways to do this.
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Category: Deer
Deer Scouting: Big Buck Of The Future
It is an absolute pleasure to see them. Young bucks that are special in some way, compared to their peers. They’re the ones that have wider antlers, or have more than 8 points, have longer tines than the others, or their antlers are noticeably heftier than the others. Or weigh a bit more and have longer bodies.
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There’s More Than Deer Out There
Deer Scouting with Trail Cameras is a mixed bag.
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Deer Scouting 2020: The Kickoff
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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The 2nd Rut: What Is It?
Learn About the Second Whitetail Deer Rut Looking back, I can not thank enough the men that took...
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Search For The Tin Shed Buck
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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2019 Tin Shed Buck Bowhunt
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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Rick Philippi: Moose Report #1
After they found the moose pit Terry Brew scattered moose scent around the sizeable section of...
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Where Do The Early Season Bucks Go?
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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What’s The Point
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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2019: Finding This Year’s Bucks
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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2019: Learning What We Got This Year
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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