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 all love venison, but these famed explorers took it to gut-busting extremes. How extreme? How does 6,500 calories a day sound? Not much is known about the specific deer hunting exploits of famed explorers Lewis & Clark’s team, but what we do know is they loved venison. That might be due to its great flavor, or it might be because, well, meat’s meat and a man’s gotta eat. And when you’re lugging boats and supplies around the wilderness, well, you burn a lot of calories. Their expedition started on May 14, 1804, when they left Wood River, Illinois. Their final stop was an area near what is now Astoria, Oregon. The entire trip took a little more than 28 months. They returned on Sept. 23, 1806, completing the nation’s…
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Like a lot of guys living in rural Kentucky, hunting is life for Pascal Benson of Robards. From turkeys and deer to squirrels and rabbits, Benson, 83, has probably hunted it. He had a real passion for waterfowl hunting, owning a goose pit for many years. living in ru ar lKentucky, huntingis life for Pascal Benson of Robards. From turkeys and deer to squirrels and rabbits, Benson, 83, has probably hunted it. He had a real passion for waterfowl hunting, ing a goose pit for many years. Now imagine if changes in your body slowly took away something that you loved. That’s what happened to Pascal. “It started sneaking up on him,” said Pascal’s son, Tracy. Pascal developed a condition known as optic neuropathy. At first it affected his peripheral…
Most deer hunters hunt on the land of others, be they public lands such as national and state forests, community watersheds, and parks and recreational areas or on private lands such as timber companies or individually-owned family forests. Very few hunters own forestland to hunt on. And all, to varying extent, want to know how many deer there and where they are on these forestlands. Monitoring provides the answers. Monitoring deer has an entirely different meaning for owners and managers of the forestlands hunters use for deer hunting. These people have their own set of questions. Like hunters, they want to know how many deer there are, and where they are, but their goals for deer management differ from those of hunters. Landowners and managers monitor deer density and impact…
Grabbing my bow, backpack and freelance pack I set off through the public land timber to a patch of white oaks I’d hunted the previous season. To my disappointment none of the oaks had acorns, the two scrapes from the previous season were inactive, there were no nearby rubs and the heavily used runways from the previous season were barely noticeable. It was late October and the mature bucks were beginning to break their nocturnal habits in search of early estrus does and because of that it was the first time in my hunting career that I had to improvise and search for a location offering doe traffic and henceforth, visual buck sign. The breeding season concept in this big woods area was simple; find a white or red oak…
Growing up in the West, I had access to literally millions of acres of public land to roam. I started locally, then expanded my horizons to pretty much all the western states, then moved into some midwestern states, too. Fishing, hunting, hiking, backpacking – anything outdoors was good with me. Especially if I had the country all to myself. I’ve been doing it since the late 1960’s, and learned early on that isolation meant untapped fishing and hunting. Back then there were no cable TV or YouTube hunting shows, only the “Big 3” hunting magazines that were long on adventures in faraway places, but short on DIY tactics and techniques for guys like me. We didn’t have Google Earth, Smartphones loaded with hunting and weather apps that provide instant and…
