Deer & Deer Hunting June 2016

Scout. Manage. Hunt. That’s what modern deer hunting is all about. But to seal the deal we still must embrace that inner predator that’s hard-wired in our DNA. A deer will often show up sight unseen. If it’s a deer you want, you have to make the shot, and you have to make it fast. How many times does this happen to you? You’re in your treestand, you’re looking down, you’re looking away … you look in front of you … and BAM, there’s a deer standing there. It just showed up out of nowhere. Two more steps and that deer is going to be back in the brush and, most likely, out of your life forever. It’s now or never. You have to get to full draw and make…

Here’s a picture of my grandson holding your magazine. Thought you might enjoy it. — Janie Blakey, via email Dear Mr. Schmidt: My name is Devin. I am 12 years old and a member of Boy Scout Troop 25. I’m working on a merit badge and one of the requirements is to write to the editor of a magazine. I chose yours because I really like hunting and my dad has a subscription to this magazine and I really enjoy reading the articles and looking at the pictures. The article I really liked was “A 200-Class Bow Buck.” I thought it was really good and I wish that someday I will be able to kill that big of a deer. I thought the article was laid out nicely and made…

For 2016, Deer & Deer Hunting-TV joins Sportsman Channel for its 12th action-packed season. You’ll get great information from top hunting experts along with super footage of wild deer behavior and cool hunts throughout the country. DDH-TV airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. and Saturday mornings at 5:30 a.m. (EST) through June 30. Starting July 1, the show will air Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. SHOPDEERHUNTING.COM Take a visual journey through the history of North American whitetail hunting with “Dawn of American Deer Hunting” — a photographic anthology of American whitetail hunters from the 1800s to mid-1900s. Each classic photograph has a story to tell — from the warm days and hound hunts of the South, to the deep tracking snow and frigid cold of Maine. Admire the deer they took —…

It was the biggest buck any of the locals had ever seen, probably the biggest shot since Lewis and Clark had passed through 170 years earlier. Those explorers had floated within a mile of the prairie hill where the kid eventually dropped the buck, but not until he’d hiked and poked his nose into grassy swales, brushy pockets and wooded creeks for three hours. Then the massive buck broke cover. If the kid had been carrying one of Lewis and Clark’s muzzleloaders or one of today’s long-barreled, ½-MOA tack driver bolt-actions topped with a tactical scope, that whitetail would have escaped out of the prairie draw, dashed across the upland corn field and dropped into the Missouri River bottoms. But the kid had his cowboy gun. Twenty-inch barrel, six .30-30…

The Civil War had just ended and Americans still commuted to work by walking or riding a horse. They illuminated homes and offices with fire, carried water to kitchens in buckets. For another 40 years they would merely dream of flying, yet Winchester was already producing state-of-the art repeating rifles and cartridges, many of them still viable deer hunting tools 150 years later. The horse and buggy era was on the cusp of radical change, and Winchester was at the head of the pack. It’s been innovating, engineering and creating some of the world’s best hunting firearms and ammunition ever since.…

From the .44-40 Winchester of 1873 to the .17 Winchester Super Magnum of 2013, Winchester has been a driving force in cartridge and bullet development. Its new Deer Season ammo featuring the Extreme Point bullet is just the latest. This year Winchester extends the line with the addition of the 7mm-08 Rem. featuring a 140-grain XP bullet at 2,800 fps and the 300 Blackout with a 150-grain XP bullet at 1,900 fps. Last but not least is Winchester’s classic deer cartridge, the one that defined modern, centerfire deer hunting — the .30-30 Winchester. The new .30-30 Win. Deer Season XP pushes a 150-grain bullet 2,390 fps, bringing this venerable 19th century cartridge to the forefront of 21st century deer hunting. The Extreme Point bullet takes the sharp, sleek, deformation-resistant polymer…