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Happy Friday! The good times got kicked off a little early for me last night, as I had some buddies over to watch some of the new Realtree and Drury DVDs, have a cold beverage and set up a couple new bows. We got some awesome new Trophy Ridge accessories on the rigs and had [...]

Today at 12:00 CST Deer & Deer Hunting will premiere their first episode of “Deer Talk Now”, a one hour interactive online talk show hosted by Dan Schmidt and Brad Rucks of D&DH Magazine. According to D&DH’s website,  ”Deer Talk Now will feature special guests, questions from viewers and discussions about new hunting gear, habitat, [...]

As you may have read already, my turkey season ended with less arrows in my quiver than I started with – but still no dead turkey to show for it. Not how I wanted to season to go, but that’s hunting – right? But now that the thunder chickens are out of the way my [...]

The digital revolution has slowly been taking the hunting world by storm – and today that wave of change has taken a big step forward with Realtree’s first release of a digital download in their Monster Bucks series of hunting videos! Monster Bucks XX Volume 3 is now available instantly as a digital download to [...]

This morning I wanted to make a quick public service announcement. If you’re looking to get serious about filming your hunts – do yourself a favor and attend the 2012 Heartland Bowhunter Film School. I attended the Film School last year, and felt like I learned a ton, I certainly had fun, and nearly a [...]

Can you believe it’s already May? Seems like just yesterday I hung up the bow after my last hunt of the 2011 season – and now I’m already getting ready to plant food plots and hang stands for 2012! Only 150 days til I can draw first blood in Michigan and boy does that get [...]

Last week I highlighted a set of data from the Quality Deer Management Association’s 2012 Whitetail Report, which detailed the states with the highest rates of yearling bucks being killed. Given that these states had the highest % of yearlings killed, we deemed them the worst states for the harvest of mature bucks. On the [...]

Happy Friday ya’ll! I don’t know about you, but I am very ready for the weekend to be here. My week started off with an unsuccesful turkey hunt on the opening day of the season here in Michigan – but I’m hoping to redeem myself this weekend! And I hope that many of you will [...]

Over the past several years, The Quality Deer Management Association has been collecting and analyzing a variety of whitetail harvest data from across the country. In the most recent QDMA Whitetail Report, I had to read through a very interesting and ultimately depressing analysis of the age structure of buck harvests in 2010 (the most [...]

Antler point restrictions, a hotly debated topic to be sure, have again popped up on the radar. And this time in my home state of Michigan. A 3 point per side restriction has been in place for one Northwest Michigan county for the past 5 years or so and now a proposal is out to [...]


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