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
If you’ve read or watched any “news” reports on hunting over the past 20+ years, you have been conditioned to believe that hunting in America is on the decline. Here’s a newsflash based in facts: Hunting is not on the decline. In fact, it is more robust today, especially for state coffers, than it has ever been. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, more than 15.2 million people bought a hunting license of some sort this past hunting season. That compares to 14.96 million hunters in 2004. That is correct — those are the actual hunters, per the USFW. In 2021, there were 38.59 million hunting licenses, tags, permits and stamps in the U.S. — more than twice the number of total hunters (all species, big and small…
It’s 4a.m. at Deer Camp Way back in 1991, Deer & Deer Hunting co-founder Jack Brauer commissioned artist Frederick A. Schmidt to paint a series of hunting-camp scenes. The first print, “4 A.M.” depicted the original Stump Sitters hunting camp. Among the painting’s details: • A grizzled camp cook, prepping the morning’s fire … while wearing a belt over his long johns, complete with a scabbard and hunting knife. • Wool socks and heart-emblazoned briefs hanging above the coffee pot. • An 8-point buck mount with cobwebs and flies buzzing around it. • A Deer & Deer Hunting Whitetail Calendar® featuring a big buck on the November date pad. • The Stump Sitters Hunting Camp sign above the door. This is a scaled-down version of the real sign that hung…
It has always taken words typed on a page to crystalize thoughts trying to get out of my heart and flow from my soul. When it comes to deer hunting, that premise rings as true as the noon whistle in town down the valley on a brisk November day. Maybe it’s time to climb down and warm up on a walk back to the farmhouse, get a little lunch, perhaps even take a little nap before an afternoon sit. There was a time when such a break from the hunt would not even cross my mind, let alone be acted upon. I gotta stay here, fight off these shakes and chills from sitting here since before dawn, wolf down a cold sandwich, pee in a bottle, fight to stay awake:…
As a predator — humans are predators, make no mistake about it — our eyes are set in front of our skulls to allow for binocular, or stereoscopic vision, which allos us to see and judge depth of field. Thus, the eyes are our number one source of information when hunting. A close second, however, is our hearing. The sound of a distant turkey gobbling or elk bugling helps us locate game. So does the telltale crunch of a deer walking on leaves, the clack of antlers during a fight or against a tree, the distinctive grunt of a buck trailing a doe. Those who can hear and identify those sounds, and hundreds of others, are at a distinct advantage in the woods. I couldn’t hear any of them for…
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