Wired To Hunt

As a teenage bowhunter growing up in Minnesota, there was nothing I dreaded more than the general gun season. The woods that I haunted all season long became someone else’s, which bothered me a lot. I didn’t think other hunters deserved the deer that I worked so hard to mostly not kill. It was a...

Of the controversial and divisive topics in the hunting world, deer hunting with dogs sits near the top. For hunters, specifically in the South where deer-dog hunting is limited, the sound of baying walkers or beagles probably conjures up disdain and frustration. Other hunters relish this time of...

Hunting whitetails in the big woods is like a long, intense workout. It sucks when you’re in the thick of it, but the payoff (when you’re lying on your back after it’s over) gives you an immediate sense of accomplishment that few things in life do. But finding success, much like fitness goals, doesn...

Without a doubt, oaks are the most coveted species of tree in the whitetail woods. Furthermore, they produce some of the most powerful food sources available to deer. But getting oaks to the age where they can produce an amount of mast that can truly benefit your deer can be extremely difficult, not...

As autumn arrives and preparations continue for this year's hunting season, many land managers will look to plant fall food plots. These fall plots will not only help the overall herd of deer by providing a supplemental food source throughout the winter but are also used to help congregate deer...

Saddle Hunting has become all the rage these days. There’s an overabundance of info on the interwebs on how-to, which is better, and why you should. But should you really be saddle hunting? Saddle hunting is for run-and-gun hunting whitetail deer hunters. Usually, archery equipment is the weaponry...

A hunter in Ohio took down a massive 12-point whitetail in October of this year, and recently released scoring indicates it’s one for the record books. Scorers with Buckmasters Whitetail Trophy Records (BTR) measured Jason Thomas’s enormous typical buck at 208 ⅝”, which makes it the new Buckmasters...

White-tailed deer are ubiquitous in North America. It seems like half of the country heads out into the woods to pursue the enigmatic species every fall and winter, to experience the great outdoors and fill their freezers. But there’s one subspecies of whitetail very few hunters know about, in a...