Six Reasons Why Bucks Leave Their Sanctuaries
As late fall arrives and hunting pressure ends or declines, several factors combine to increase daytime deer activity.
First Light: Hunter ‘Churn’
More is learned about what keeps hunters in the field every year thanks in part to license-sales data.
Crossbows Expand Bowhunting Opportunities
Crossbows are not the evil, end-of-the-world weapons that some archers tell you they are.
Are Eastern Cougars Breeding?
Until someone runs over Bigfoot, no roadkill will equal the fame achieved by a 3-year-old male cougar that got SUV’d in June 2011 near Milford, Conn., on the Wilbur Cross Parkway.
Mooching for Deer
Slow-motion drives nudge deer onto time-tested travel routes, rather than stampede them through neighboring woodlots.
First Light: Hunter Recruitment Efforts Shift to Adults
Acknowledging youth hunter recruitment efforts may not necessarily pay dividends, many states now focus additional effort on the 27- to 40-year-old adults, people who have the time, money and resources to hunt and take their kids hunting.
Deer Camp in the Shadow of NYC
Three generations of the Gouger family have gathered every fall to hunt deer on a 128-acre farm in northwestern New Jersey since the 1950s. None of them has ever called it a “deer camp.” The place is just “the cabin.” But every hunter of the farm is aware the hunt endures today in the face of encroaching development.
What Pressured Bucks Do
GPS tracking collars are revealing how bucks change their patterns when the hunting season starts.
Hort's Hide-Away
Members of the Swanson clan trace their roots to a homestead in Michigan's Upper Peninsula their ancestors built in 1857. They're what are colloquially known as ‘Yoopers'—UP speak for ‘someone born up here.' 2013 was the last deer camp for family patriarch George Swanson, for after 77 years prowling these woods, he could no longer trust his eyes.
QDMA Summit Launches National Deer Alliance
Where would hunting be without whitetail deer? Hunting in North America has never depended so much on one species to sustain its heritage, participation levels, and the archery and firearm industries.
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