“Tag: hunting deer”

Member Shawn Thompson tells a tale of late-season success.

Some bucks have a different fall range from their summer range and the two ranges don’t always overlap. There is nothing you can really do about either.

There are too many variables with wind and terrain to explore here, but if you apply these general rules to your woods you’ll see the places where, though they might have a lot of sign, the winds aren’t stable enough to hunt.

The surge in popularity of bowhunting brought the use of deer based scents to the forefront. We now have a multi-million dollar industry based on deer pee. Over 60 companies produce and sell deer urine and gland based attractants in one form or another. Unfortunately, everything is not rosy in the world of cervid secretions.

Perhaps the West’s most sought after big-game species, mule deer continue to prove they are as alluring as they are hard to get.

Larry Koller wrote the legendary book Shots at Whitetails in 1948, drawing on hunts at the Eden Falls Hunting and Fishing Club in the Catskill Mountains. Today Koller’s legacy endures, even as hunters move on from still-hunting and deer drives.

Opening day has come and gone. What now? Frank Miniter offers a few pointers.

Do you toss and turn late at night over memories of bucks that got away? Our man does, too. Here are a handful of sleep-robbing tales of bucks that never even gave him a shot.