Shooting does is still a controversial part of deer management. In some cases, you can dramatically improve your hunting by shooting does.View post →
Finally, on November 12, the pieces came together and I was able to tag the buck. Interestingly, I shot him from the same stand where I had spooked him two weeks earlier.View post →
After sighting the buck on only my second day, I started hunting him as carefully as possible. That involved sleeping on the ground near my stands to keep from spooking deer coming and going.View post →
Despite a lack of trail cam photos going into the season, I was able to tag my top target buck. Here's how it all came together.View post →
My friend Ron Nemetchek runs a sheep camp deep in the heart of British Columbia's wilderness. I spent three weeks there in September. This is my diary of the epic adventure.View post →
This is the kind of place where you could say every trip to the region is the adventure of a lifetime - no matter how many times you go!View post →
Some bucks become nocturnal due to hunting pressure, but many others exhibit nocturnal behavior without any hunting pressure - what makes a buck nocturnal?View post →
I killed two 7 year-old bucks in 2012. Both spent their early years on the same ridge, but by the time I killed them they exhibited widely different behavior. Every buck is different.View post →
One of the most surprising things I have learned over the past 15 years is that bucks actually get easier to kill when they get old!View post →
Starting with just $12,000 in 1995, I ended up creating a whitetail hunting dream farm of nearly 1,000 acres over the next 13 years.View post →