Posts Tagged ‘deer hunting strategies

  “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 [...]

I am haunted. Not in the way you see on Ghost Hunters or on one of those low budget horror films, but in a very real – nightly kind of way. I’m haunted by the woulda, coulda, shouldas. Specifically the “what ifs” are related to a certain whitetail buck I encountered during my 2011 season. [...]

One thing I love about deer hunting is that you can always, always learn something new. And despite hunting for about 20 years so far, I’ve certainly still learned more than my fair share this season! Now that being said, one thing I’m trying to do a better job of is taking these lessons learned, [...]

So here’s the situation. I’m in a bit of a pickle. As many of you saw already, I had a great encounter with a buck I call “Six Shooter” this weekend. Two encounters in fact. To summarize for those that missed it, I watched this buck come in and bed 90 yards from me Sunday [...]

As we all know, there are a million different strategies, tips and tricks that can help you bag the buck of your dreams. But on the other hand, there are just as many, if not more ways to screw it all up. Hunting mature whitetails is an exercise in walking the thin line between success and failure. [...]

  I do it every year. I tell myself I’m going to be better prepared, I’m going to be ready earlier, I’m not going to wait til the last minute. But every year I still do the same thing. I get busy, I lose track of time and before you know it the season is [...]

If you’re following W2H on Facebook or Twitter, you may have seen last week that we discovered that the buck we called Backyard 12 is actually a 13! Upon reviewing my footage of him on the big screen, we noticed a short sticker point coming off of his right G3. Needless to say, this buck [...]

This past Wednesday I posted an article discussing a recent piece I read from  Bill Winke and some questions I had about his strategy (If you haven’t already, click here to read the original article).  In Bill’s article he discussed how he uses trail cameras to determine whether a buck is nocturnal or not, and then makes decisions on [...]

Today while perusing the local grocery store, I made my weekly pilgrimage to the magazine rack. I’m always on the prowl for the newest issue of Deer & Deer Hunting, North American Whitetail or one of the other great hunting publications that grace the shelves. Well I came upon an interesting article on hunting early [...]

We all know that wind direction is key when deer hunting. That being said,  many folks try to get the wind in their favor, and then leave it at that. But as I’ve gotten more and more obsessed with chasing mature bucks specifically, I’ve found that this just doesn’t cut it. Mature bucks are a [...]


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