Video: 5 Mistakes Duck Hunters Make

5 Mistakes Deer Hunters Make During the Rut

The rut is the promised land. It’s the great equalizer between hunter and hunter, and hunter and whitetail. It’s a couple-week period that is destined to deliver dumb deer to us, and if we’re lucky, provide a magical encounter or two that makes it all worth the wait. Except, it mostly doesn’t. The rut is kind of like a trip to Disney World. The buildup is incredible, but the reality is that most of the time you’ll be waiting in line while...

The 5 Most Common Mistakes Whitetail Hunters Make

There are a thousand ways to skin a cat and a thousand more to muff up a whitetail hunt. The key is learning from your mistakes and adapting accordingly. These mistakes, and how you react to them, will shape you as a hunter—for better or worse. Here are some of the most common errors whitetailers make every fall. Not Being Aggressive Enough There’s a trend in whitetail hunting to sit field edges and observation stands, putting very little human...

The Worst Dick Moves a Duck Hunter Can Make

Duck hunting has a culture. And no, I’m not saying that we’re all like the guys from Duck Dynasty. The world’s not ready for that. However, the very nature of the sport lends itself to a shared experience. From panel blinds and boats, to pickups and piano boxes, we share tight spaces in mud, muck, stubble, and swampland for long periods of time at odd hours of the day. Duck hunters, perhaps more than any other hunting subgroup, spend an...