
Summer scouting mistakes whitetail hunters often make
With bucks bachelored up and showing the framework for this season’s headgear, it’s a great time to get your 24/7 digital scouters out.
Cameras are the easiest way to keep tabs on the local

With bucks bachelored up and showing the framework for this season’s headgear, it’s a great time to get your 24/7 digital scouters out.
Cameras are the easiest way to keep tabs on the local

Harvest gains were only moderate, but one thing about the 2025-26 Illinois deer season has statistically been proven as fact.
Illinois deer hunters were not sitting on the sideline. As the state hits the

Illinois deer hunters will be able to load up to three rounds in legal centerfire rifles beginning Jan. 1, 2027, after Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2756 into law on July 24.
The

The Minnesota DNR announced on Tuesday that a deer near Stillwater has been confirmed positive for chronic wasting disease.
The female deer was reported to the DNR by a landowner who observed it for several

So we have a little news for this spot this week, followed by more submissions on short-eared does. I’m not sure what I started here when running the first bit on short-eared does, but apparently

There are two divergent trends that have taken over the whitetail industry in the past decade. The first is the public land craze, where tree saddles, lightweight climbing sticks, and the willingness to be truly

It’s interesting how two seemingly unrelated activities can share so many parallels until you step back and contemplate the many similarities.
Last month, I spent a week in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, with

Between swatting at deer flies and reapplying bug spray for the millionth time, my arms are getting a workout in recent weeks. But there’s one thing I like to do this time of year to

Deer hunters interested in buying leftover antlerless deer bonus tags may begin doing so on Monday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. Bonus tags (harvest authorizations in bureaucratic speak), may be purchased through the Department of
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