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
It might sound all-too-simple, but a batch of new arrows is something that gets my heart racing. It’s almost like I’m 9 years old again, and it’s Christmas … or maybe just the middle of summer and there’s literally nothing else to do but fling sticks at a paper target tacked to a couple of stacked haybales. James Easton made the first aluminum arrows in the U.S. in 1939. Fifty-three years later, I used the same XX75/2317 shown in the photo on this page to bag my first archery buck. However, my fascination with arrows started long before that. It was probably sometime in 1978 when I became infatuated with the mystical flight of the arrow. My older brothers — who had shot recurves and cedar arrows for years leading…
I HAVE READ and studied Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine for almost 45 years. Putting it very mildly, I have learned a lot! A couple years ago a friend asked me if I would teach him how to hunt deer. I told him that I would be glad to do that. But upon reflection, I realized that I am a bit limited since I’ve had both knees replaced and basically my strategy for the past 20 years has been to look for a good place to sit! Then I thought … Hey, why don’t I give him a stack of old D&DH magazines and tell him to do some serious reading, especially the articles by Charles Alsheimer! I share the same faith in Jesus Christ that Charles had, and I…
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Have you ever looked at a deer skull closely and been curious about the purposes of some of the more subtle structures? To be totally honest, I had never really given much thought to anything other than antlers and jawbones until a friend recently asked me what, at the time, seemed to be a pretty simple question. “I always wondered what those two holes are on the forehead of a deer skull just above the eyes. What are those?” he questioned. I scrambled to come up with a coherent answer on the spot, thinking maybe they were an opening for a gland on the forehead or something of the like. After mentioning that idea to him, I backtracked and said that I really did not know. Not knowing something about…
It was a wild Wednesday on the morning of May 26 when Neal Herrman discovered a fowl scene while scouting turkeys in Dunn County, Wisconsin. That morning, Herrman had already killed a turkey in another area and went to Dunn County to scout and hunt turkeys with another tag. He came out to a picked cornfield when he spotted something strange. “I noticed something white out in the field, just a white spot. … I put my binoculars on, and I thought, ‘I’m pretty sure that’s a bald eagle over there,’” Herrman told Nexstar Media Wire. “I walked down to it. I saw it had a newborn fawn in its talons. I would guess the deer had been dead for three days or so. And the eagle only about 12…
Yeah, I know that probably sounds like the typical spin you’d expect from a wildlife manager. Hear me out, because I’m about to explain something I don’t take lightly. In fact, I’ve been studying this topic and how it relates to whitetailed deer populations for well over a half-century. If you’re reading this magazine, you obviously love deer. And you probably like seeing them when you’re hunting — a lot of them. In that regard, how could maximum sustained yield be bad? I completely understand that question, because I said the same thing many times when I first started out in this career (I’m now retired). As a graduate student in wildlife ecology in the late 1960s I was taught that maximum sustained yield (we will abbreviate this to MSY…
