
Illinois CWD sampling locations announced
The Illinois DNR has announced locations where deer can be tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD) free of charge during the 2023-2024 hunting season.

The Illinois DNR has announced locations where deer can be tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD) free of charge during the 2023-2024 hunting season.

As most hunters know when a deer appears, especially if it’s a big deer, there is an adrenalin rush that can make us do stupid things especially if we don’t have a highly practiced shooting
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is conducting a survey that will help identify potential mechanisms to increase the harvest of female deer. DEC is working with Cornell University’s Center for Conservation Social

Six out of 10 deer taken during last year’s shotgun season were bucks, according to DNR’s published report on the 2022-23 harvest.
The exact harvest ratio of 59.2% males to 40.8% females was not

Just about all deer experts, both hunters and the science-based research variety, agree that the breeding between female and male whitetails can be broken down into three separate phases.
First is the “pre

Orange is still the color linked to the gun deer season, but gray is solidly in second place. Gray, as in beards and hair color of aging hunters.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR)

A dramatic spike in CWD-positive deer discovered in Illinois this past year could be enough to trigger bells and whistles . . . and maybe even alarms.
But so far, loud noises have been

I’ve always been fascinated by the ways in which deer communicate, and there’s no better example of that than scraping behavior. Although whitetails have numerous means of direct communication via grunts, bleats, and more, this

When John Brosen first heard that he might be able to hunt during New York’s archery season with a crossbow via a special permit, he didn’t envision it happening this season. But within days, hours
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