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The latest smartphone app developed by researchers at Mississippi State University will likely deliver unprecedented scientific insights into deer hunters and hunting tactics.

For guys like Jeremiah Waugh, shed hunting is an addiction. He's only one of the many western hunters joining a cult-like following of the "sport."

With this time of year comes some of the best whitetail hunting action in the country. Many hunters are content to climb into a stand and simply sit back and wait for a bruiser to walk by, which certainly can work. But to improve your odds and take a more active role in bringing in that buck try rattling to simulate a battle between bucks.

You see a buck across a field in the soft, late light of a summer evening. You tell yourself he isn’t really that big. The velvet on his rack in the diffused light is giving the buck cartoon proportions. But he is big enough. You next look at the woods beyond the buck and wonder how you can get him in your sights in autumn daylight. To make that happen you have to concede and understand a few things.

This latest Member's Hunt comes from Timothy Baugh of Bridgeport, California.

This latest Member's Hunt comes from Jacob Rosenmeier of Boonville, Ind.

Bad moves work out sometimes, but that’s no reason to live by them.

While we know to hunt our treestands with discretion, knowing how much is too much is the key. Before we blow our cover, research sheds light in time for fall.