Today’s Shoot or Don’t Shoot buck hails from Southwest Ohio – and you may have seen this guy before. I had posted a couple pictures last year of this thick necked bruiser caught on trailcam while I was down in Ohio hunting during the rut. He’s a definitely a unique buck. Huge body and an […]

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 […]

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 […]