Deer & Deer Hunting is written and edited for serious, year-round hunting enthusiasts, focusing on hunting techniques, deer biology and behavior, deer management, habitat requirements, the natural history of deer and hunting ethics
We might not all see it in our immediate circles, but the numbers are real. The most striking: One in seven Americans struggles with hunger, and food insecurity exists in every county in America. Despite a gradual economic recovery and stock market rebound, wages for many Americans have simply not risen fast enough to cover the increased cost of living. To these Americans, food has become an unaffordable luxury. Have you ever wanted to donate deer meat (or even a whole deer) but didn’t know how to do it or where you should even start? The process is pretty painless in most areas of the country, and, in fact, is usually as simple as dropping your deer off at a registered meat processor. Each state is different when it comes…
In the article “The Perfect Whitetail Rifle” (April 2018 issue) the author rules out the 6mm-caliber rifles. Well I disagree. I have been hunting for over 50 years in the Upper Midwest and know a lot of hunters who use 6mm rifles for hunting white-tailed deer. If you use Sierra 100-grain Game King or Nosler 100-grain Partition or even Nosler 90-grain Accubond bullets, they will do the job needed to put down a whitetail with a clean kill. — Dan Lanop, via email I recently re-subscribed to Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine and was literally taken back to read that Charles Alsheimer had passed away. I knew he was younger than my 77 years, which made his death even more surprising. His passing gave me a moment to pause and…
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DDH TV Upcoming Episodes of Deer & Deer Hunting-TV on Pursuit Channel Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. EST, Thursdays at 3 p.m. EST and 10 p.m. EST. Season 14 begins on June 30 with Saturday Night Deer Camp at 9:00 p.m. EST. June 7: “Peer Pressure in the Deer Woods” All about the pressure and stress that deer put on each other. June 14: “Ground Blinds” Ditch the trees and change your tactics to hunt from the ground. June 21: “Mr. Big” What kind of patience and skill does it take to hunt for mature bucks? The answer may surprise you. June 30: “Charlie Alsheimer Tribute” A D&DH salute to our most celebrated contributor of all time. PURSUIT UP Now streaming past episodes on www.pursuituptv.com! WHAT TO WATCH MOSSY OAK COUNTRY…
The origin of the deer family, cervidae, is still somewhat obscure. We assume that true antlered cervids first appeared in Eurasia some 20 million years ago and entered North America via a land bridge that once linked present-day Alaska with northeastern Siberia. The bridge finally submerged about 15,500 years ago when glacial melt caused rising sea levels to join the Pacific and Arctic oceans, creating the Bering Strait. As the climate cooled and glaciers formed, the ancestral cervid was gradually pushed southward. It reached the continental United States about 4 million years ago and later entered South America over the Pliocene land bridge. The genus Odocoileus, which includes the whitetail, blacktail and mule deer, is regarded as an American development. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) as we know it today…
Pictured here is a white-tailed doe with a short tail in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Deer predators such as coyotes and wolves are common in the region. This doe’s tail was most likely shortened by a predator that tried to grab her from the rear and bit down on the tail instead of her rump or a hind leg. That proved to be fortunate for the deer. Although she lost part of her tail, she managed to escape the predator and survive.…
