Deer

Love hunting but don’t have a lot of money to spend? Check out these budget-friendly adventure options. North America offers some of the best hunting in the world, but many of those experiences come with a high price tag. Every year it seems guided hunts become more and more expensive, and some hunting is limited...

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission reports that the recent outbreak of hemorrhagic disease (HD) in white-tailed deer is cyclic and the population will rebound. Hemorrhagic disease is a common disease of deer caused by two types of viruses — one producing blue tongue and the other producing epizootic hemorrhagic disease. Tests of infected animals indicate...

Nothing scares hunters more than Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The disease shows up unannounced and can decimate massive deer and elk herds as well as the moose population in very short order. Recently the use of hunting scents have come into question as possibly being a source of spreading CWD — this claim is false...

Deer Season XP was Winchester’s first offering made specifically for Deer hunting. In 2017, it will be joined by one of the most popular modern sporting rifle (MSR) chamberings, the .223 Remington, as well as 6.5 Creedmoor, which has grown in popularity for its flat-shooting, long-range capability. The new Deer Season XP offers a 64-grain...

When you start proclaiming any cartridge as one of the best deer cartridges you’re bound to cause conflict. After all, there are many effective cartridge options ranging from the .22s (where legal) to powerful magnum rounds and the hard-hitting .45-caliber AR cartridges. But there are certainly some cartridges that stand out in this crowded field....

Perennial big buck states still offer the best odds of getting in the book, but with better management techniques massive whitetails are popping up all over the map. In November of 2016, 27-year-old Stephen Tucker killed the largest whitetail ever taken with a firearm. That’s no real shock; with intense management happening from coast to...

A Tennessee hunter may have just broken a world record with this 47-point buck A hunter in Tennessee is celebrating the hunt of a lifetime. Stephen Tucker shot the buck with a muzzleloader in Sumner County, Tennessee in November 2016. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency classified the 47-point antlers as a “non-typical whitetail” with a certified measurement...

Do you know that Missouri deer hunters have been lending a hand, and gloves, to disabled veterans across the country for years? Those hunters have donated thousands of raw deer skins to Elks Lodges around the state, and the Elks then turn those hides into comfortable fingerless gloves for veterans who use wheelchairs. Byron Moore, a...

Are you a smoker and a hunter? Remember that time you were itching for a cigarette but thought the smell would chase the deers away? Well, check out the below video of a hunter that decided to light up while hunting for a buck from a tree stand. Several does come up right under him…as he’s...

What?! ? Holy mother of camo… @Arbys in Nashville for the win! pic.twitter.com/XUG3QRlLJD — Tyler Farr (@tylerfarr) November 1, 2016 Arby’s made big news in the hunting community when they announced a limited time offer for venison sandwiches, but they didn’t expect supplies to be quite so limited. Seventeen Arby’s scattered across the south and...

Nick Pinizzotto, President and CEO of National Deer Alliance, has some quick tips that you shouldn’t overlook this hunting season if you plan on going vertical and utilizing a treestand for bow hunting.

The super moon you have been hearing about represents an opportunity for far more than stargazers. Deer hunters can benefit from this astronomical anomaly not just on November 14th, but throughout the following week. According to game experts, during this event, bucks will be traveling much farther in search of does thanks to the estrous...

Clyde Roberts of Virginia just took a beautiful 8 point buck. While the buck may not break any records anytime soon, Clyde may soon be the oldest active hunter in the country. At 103-years-old, Clyde hasn’t missed a step and is happy to spend yet another season in the woods pursuing his great passion. His...

Time seems to slow down in those final seconds before a bow hunter lets loose, but as soon as that arrow leaves the string time speeds up with a vengeance. Any decent hunter will try to observe his shot placement and where his quarry ran to make tracking easier. If the arrow passed cleanly through...

Deer are almost always finding the strangest ways into particular places they shouldn’t be. This particular deer wandered into an American Eagle store and refused to leave. That’s when someone decided to get their phone out just in time. This buck had no choice but to try and bolt and when it did it took...

This hunter was lining up the perfect shot on what looks like a trophy buck when he missed the mark high by several feet. It was only after both shots that the hunter realized his son had previously dropped his rifle a week earlier without telling him. This set the sight off and explains why...

If you’ve ever been out on a hunt alone, you know just of difficult some tasks can be. Not only do you have to bait, stalk, and make the shot on your deer yourself, when it comes to hauling it back to camp after you’ve tagged it, you may not be able to lift a...

If you’re into collecting sheds then this guy’s trick might absolutely be worth trying out. He’s always maintained some feeders in the off season and came to an important realization. If he placed his feeders around certain parts of the fence he was more likely to find sheds there. So he figures if he keeps...

As anyone will tell you, grabbing a shed on video is rare enough. Also, as anyone will tell you, spotting an albino deer on camera is also extremely rare. Now imagine how rare it would be to combine those two sights? Well a camera up in Wisconsin captured just that! It’s a white deer that...

Bowhunter Cody Kraut had a good feeling as he and his father hung their treestand in the pouring rain near a clearing where their trailcams had revealed a massive buck which they nicknamed “Alien” repeatedly emerge from the treeline. A week later, they climbed up their stand and waited patiently for “Alien” or one of...

Everyone loves spotting a rare deer out in the wild and whoever finds this deer next is going to have one hell of a story to tell because of this! Backwoods Life guest hunter Jeremy Johnson is out hunting on an Alabama farm on the opening day of bow hunting season when he spots a...