“Tag: Food”

Watch our American Hunter insights with Bill Winke's Whitetail Season Episode 5: Food Sources & Nocturnal Bucks

Hunters shouldn’t try to compete with farmers. You are not trying to grow crops in perfect rows in a large field. You are looking to bring in a buck you want to shoot in daylight. This means creating one or more food plots that bucks feel comfortable feeding in or cruising into as they search for does during the rut, during daylight.

To know deer, you have to know what they eat. Use this guide to learn how to identify the food sources that will lead you to more big bucks this fall.

Think food plots on open ground are the only way to grow big bucks? Think again. When timbered property is properly managed, it can be logged for profit while still providing ideal habitat for whitetails.

Food plots aren’t just for deer, which means they certainly aren’t just for fall hunting seasons. You can make them work for you in spring to keep turkeys in your ZIP code if you keep in mind a few factors.

Turn so-so small properties into big-time “deer scapes” where the herds are healthier, the bucks bigger and the hunting just plain better.

Wyoming’s First Lady Jennie Gordon is leading the charge to end hunger in the Cowboy State. Turns out, she knows just who to ask to be part of the answer—hunters.

Being a gardener for deer takes some farming skills, but what you need to learn isn’t that complicated.

Antler King’s Trophy Clover Mix is designed to be a high protein- and tonnage-producing perennial mix, for deer and turkey food plots that last up to 6 years.