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4 Ways To Bring The Deer To You
17, May 2012“If you build it, they will come.” As true as this is in the movie “Field of Dreams”, it also applies to our pursuit of deer hunting. Certainly much of the challenge of chasing whitetails is in finding big bucks and chasing them down, but, there is also significant advantage in finding ways to [...]
7 Most Common Trail Camera Mistakes
15, May 2012With antlers quickly sprouting, it’s getting to be that time of year that most people haul their trail cameras out of the closet and back into the woods. I’m certainly going to be deploying my full array of trail cams soon, and my goal this year (as is every year) is to have more big [...]
In last night’s “Question of the Night” on the Wired To Hunt Facebook Page I asked … “Do you feel that you can accurately age a buck “on the hoof ” ? The answers we got back ranged from a tentative yes or clear no, to more tepid answers – such as “fairly close for [...]
If only one single tip I share with you on food plots this spring sinks into your skull – let it be this one. If you’re going to plant a food plot – you must, I repeat – must, get a soil test done. In the past, I’ve covered plenty of reasons why you should [...]
1. Minerals benefit deer health and antler growth (we think): There is no verified research with free ranging whitetails that proves that supplemental minerals improve whitetail health or antler production. BUT – there is plenty of anecdotal evidence and theory that makes most biologists and experts believe that there is some positive effect on whitetails [...]
Todays food plot tip of the day is focused on the food plot gem of the north – brassicas. These tasty broad leafed wonders are food plot gold come late fall, and can be in many cases an ideal hunting plot choice. But before I get too deeply into my own thoughts on Brassicas, [...]
Food Plot Tip of the Day – “Killing Plots”
4, Apr 2012Today’s food plot tip of the day comes from “Hunting Mature Whitetails the Lakosky Way”, the recent book published by Lee & Tiffany Lakosky. Within a section focused on planting and maintaing food plots, the Lakosky’s make a simple, but incredibly important point about the food plots you want to hunt come this fall. It’s [...]
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Food Plot Tip of the Day – Producing Food Plots That Maximize Body Growth and Fawn Recruitment
27, Mar 2012With spring food plot season pretty much upon us, I thought I’d start featuring a series of short and to the point “food plot tip” articles on the blog. I intend to pull most of these tips from various books, magazines and resources featuring expert strategies and opinions of food plotting and then add my [...]
The Sheds of 2012 – How They Laid
26, Mar 2012With April just about here, the prime time of shed season is starting to wrap up for most whitetail hunters across the country. Looking back on the last couple months, myself and the Wired To Hunt team have been pretty successful. Shed hunting across Michigan and Iowa we found a decent number of antlers and some [...]
