“snort”

Mule deer and whitetails share a way with words. If you need to persuade a mule deer to show itself in timber or pry it from a desert crevice, consider deer calls.

During the rut, the bucks themselves may not always know where they will be next, so how can you expect to know? Luck will always play a role in your success, but when you play the odds and focus on those things that are predictable, luck will find you a whole lot sooner.

There are great archers, and then there are deadly ones. Great shots might stack a quiver of arrows in the 10-ring at 40 yards; deadly shots stack game in the back of the truck season after season. Both of these guys practice the fundamentals of shooting, but deadly shots realize the woods is not a static archery range.

After several years of study in “whitetail university” among the oak-covered landscape of his small piece of Kansas, the author has learned two valuable lessons: The deer do the teaching, and he’s a pretty dumb student.

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We hear the sounds and we use the terms, but what do they actually mean? Is a whitetail's "snort" the same as its “blow”?