“Tag: Frank Miniter”

Here’s a week-by-week guide to staying in step with the rut this month to up your odds of tagging the buck you want.

There are basically two types of bleats we can utilize when hunting: a fawn-in-distress bleat and a doe-in-estrous bleat. Here's when you should deploy each.

Surprising upland opportunities abound in the East. But the wisdom to find them is fading like an old hunter’s hairline.

Here are several things GPS-collar studies are teaching us about how to hunt whitetails, which you can use to your advantage this fall.

Good whitetail hunters will tell you to find entry and exit routes to stands that are low-impact. That’s wonderful advice, but adhering to it takes a lot of great stands off the table. Look for stands to burn in the pre-rut.

Sometimes calling elk is about knowing what not to do.

There is perhaps no tougher test for a boot than being strapped to an elk guide’s foot.

True story: Your tax money does so much good for wildlife and our sports that it is impossible to quantify in one magazine article.

You see a buck, antlers slathered in velvet, across a field on a humid late-summer evening and think it looks staggeringly big. But the velvet, the buck’s skinny summer neck and the warm glow of light can lead to gross exaggeration in your mind.