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How to Make a Mineral Lick

According to wildlife biologists, minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and salt may enhance antler growth in bucks. Therefore, adding a few mineral licks on your property couldn’t hurt. The good news: It’s cheap and easy.

Food Plots: Proof Hunters Care About America's Wildlife

Aside from drawing more deer to your fields, food plots provide habitat and nutrition to a wide variety of animals, and the whole system benefits.

Survival Gear: 5 Must-Have Items for Backcountry Hunters

Be sure to have these essential items with you on your next backcountry hunt to prevent bad luck from becoming a crisis.

Double Time

Zimbabwe’s Sengwa River may have dried up, but a Cape buffalo hunt along its banks provides meat to quell rumors that the game populations of the Chirisa Safari Area have dried up along with it.

A Bull for Rhylan

The unlikely account of how a youth of 16 killed a bull elk of many lifetimes.

Tips and Tactics for Hunting Western Whitetails

Tactics that work for whitetails back East may not cut it for deer of the plains and mountains across the West.

Why You Should Hang Your Treestand at Night

To avoid bumping deer from prime hunting locations, place stands at night when the deer are away from their beds.

Must-Have Deer Gear for 2018

Here's the gear you'll need before hitting the deer woods this season.

How to Find the Secret Spots Bull Elk Love

It's no secret elk love to hide in places few humans wish to venture. But those are exactly the kinds of spots you should hunt—and they can be found by focusing on these five terrain features.

Top 10 States for Monster Whitetails

Deer hunters who seek to add a buck to the Boone and Crockett records book would do well searching these states, where careful management has resulted in a bumper crop of bruisers.

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