Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2024 i Deer & Deer Hunting

ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE SIGNING ON THE DOTTED LINE: • Number of people in leasing party?• Length of lease?• Cost per acre?• What species of game animals or birds exist on the property?• Are those animals/birds permanent residents, seasonal residents or migratory?• Animal species to be hunted?• Bird species to be hunted?• How many leaseholders will the landowner allow?• Will the landowner be allowed to hunt the property?• Is the lease for specific days of the week?• Is the lease for specific weeks of the year?• Can other parties lease the property to hunt other species while you’re also hunting there?• Can other parties lease the property to hunt the same species at other times during the hunting season?• When can you hunt on the lease?• What can you…

My tension headache escalates as the buck lifts his chin, swirls his muzzle and licks his nose. He’s only 40 yards away, but he’s on the other side of my tree and obscured by thick scrub brush. His actions dictate this will be merely a close encounter. Dusk is more than an hour away, and I assume there’s no way he’s going to bust strut, so to speak, and waltz that extra 10 yards. That’s when I see the distant flicker of pink plastic and hear the faint giggle of a small child. The big 8-pointer immediately periscopes his head, cups his ears forward and assumes a stone-like posture. Talk about a mood-killer. It’s as if someone just sent an arrow through my chest. I roll my eyes, slump my…

Who else remembers anxiously awaiting the new hunting regulations pamphlet? If you do, you surely recall how special it was, because it signaled the approach of a new hunting season! The pamphlet shown here is one I recall fondly, even though I was a few years away from my first deer hunt. I’d scour those pamphlets and typically dream about how many rabbits, squirrels and other small-game critters I’d stalk with my pellet gun that fall. Those were the days before they published separate pamphlets for deer season. Coincidentally, the nation’s first published deer hunting pamphlet also originated from Wisconsin. This occurred in 1888 when the state issued a deer hunting pamphlet on the heels of implementing its first bag limit on white-tailed deer in 1887. Before then, hunters shot…

On March 29, Governor Tony Evers vetoed the bill that would have banned doe hunting in the northern portion of Wisconsin for four years. The bill, which was passed by the GOP-controlled Assembly and Senate, was created as a response to years of complaints from northern Wisconsin hunters about low deer herd numbers. The goal was to stop antlerless deer hunting for four seasons in an attempt to regrow the herd in the Northern Forest Hunting Zone. Evers said the bill took away the Department of Natural Resources’ ability to set season regulations based on biological factors and that it would override the county deer advisory councils, made up mostly of hunters, which suggest season regulations to the DNR. “Those local councils and the DNR could still move to bucks-only…

I recently asked my Facebook followers to provide me with the biggest hunting and management challenges they’re striving to overcome. Although many may be surprised, nearly 25% of the responses were a variation of not being able to access and/or depart stands, mostly during a.m. hunts, but some suffer from not being able to get out of p.m. stands, as well. The next most common response didn’t hit double digits. It typically doesn’t take those that manage and/or hunt a specific property very long to figure out that the more they are spooking deer during their hunts, the worse their subsequent hunts tend to become. It’s only logical that the importance of getting in, hunting and getting out without getting busted increases as the hunters and managers realize that. More…

There are many questions surrounding fawn recruitment. However, the following are shedding light on the impacts of predators on fawn survival. Q: AT WHAT POINT must the fawn recruitment rate drop to before deer populations decline (given no changes in harvest totals)? A: THIS DEPENDS ON various factors, including the current deer population density, predation impact, current doe harvest totals, current adult doe survival rates, whitetail birth rates and more. Even so, according to Muthersbaugh, a hypothetical deer herd with 14% fawn survival and 83% doe survival, a low-density deer herd might still increase. That said, other factors might cause it to remain stable, or even decrease. Q: SHOULD STATES LIMIT tag sales and availability due to declining fawn recruitment rates? A: THIS VARIES BY state, and counties and zones…

The sun was just peeking over the horizon. Already, myself, buddy Joseph Von Benedikt, and my guide Richard Paun had glassed up a dozen Coues deer, and four of them were medium-size bucks that didn’t interest us. We were hunting in northern Sonora, Mexico, with Tall Tine Outfitters, a very experienced group headed by Ted Jaycox, a veteran of south-of-the-border outfitting. Not seeing what we wanted, the three of us – Joe and Jeff Johnson had tagged out two days prior — Linda Powell and I were still searching. Moving to an adjacent ridge overlooking some big country, we’d picked up a good buck across the canyon. Taking a quick laser rangefinder reading – 375 yards – I went prone, rested my rifle – a Mossberg Patriot LR Hunter in…

The idea of a staging area is somewhat murky, as one envisions a pack of daily commuters assembled on a subway deck, or commercial-airline passengers piled before a gate waiting area. This isn’t entirely accurate. What I discovered is that bucks — deer in general if they are inclined to nocturnal movement during warmer early seasons or when pressured unmercifully — will arrive at a certain point regularly, generally ahead of closing hours, and more or less cool their heels while waiting for sunset. Now, I’m not saying a group of deer, even a particular buck, arrives on a finite patch of ground at an appointed time, glancing at their watches impatiently. But there are often particular areas, safe spaces, where bucks move through during legal shooting hours, in no…

When aiming at a deer, you can only have one dominant focus: the pin or the target. You can’t do both. If you focus on the sight pin, the target is blurry; just how blurry depends on both the acuity of your eyesight and the target’s distance. If you focus on the target, the sight pin becomes blurry. Which is best? Most shooters focus on the pin, blurring out the target. There are problems with this: the blurred target, and the fact that you’ll see every little movement the pin makes as it floats in your sight window. Not even the best archers in the world can hold their sight pins rock steady. They know the pin floats, and they try and release the shot as it floats across the…

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A quick note on broadhead weight. Back in the 1980s I began weighing a lot of broadheads, mainly to see how close to their advertised weight they actually weighed. I used the same electronic grain scale I used to weigh gunpowder when handloading rifle ammo. In those days I found that the difference in weight between individual heads in the same six-pack could be as much as 10%, or even more. That’s significant! Today, however, when I weigh top-quality broadheads I find the discrepancies are miniscule, usually just a grain or three. That’s a testament to the improvements in manufacturing processes. Weighing my finished hunting shafts with broadheads attached allows me to fill a quiver with shafts that are virtually identical in weight, something that’s important when trying to achieve…

Let’s be honest. The U.S.-Mexico border is a mess, and has been for decades. However, I’ve been safely traveling to northern Chihuahua and Sonora for 40-plus years and never had a serious problem. The key is for clients to hunt with an experienced outfitter who knows the ropes and will make border crossings easy. You need a valid passport, a U.S. Customs form 4457 — which can be completed either beforehand or at the border — that shows you’ve registered and own your rifle, and a Mexican gun permit that has the serial numbers of both your rifle and riflescope. Your outfitter will obtain the Mexican paperwork for you. You can bring up to two firearms into Mexico on each gun permit. Depending on where you’re hunting, you’ll either fly…

Marinating any meat will improve its flavor, taste and appeal. With wild game, marinating may also remove or mask any real or perceived gamey taste or aroma the meat may have. If you haven’t prepared your meat this way, you should, particularly wild game. Marinating breaks down meat fibers and gives added flavor. There are several marinating methods: • Any acid-based liquid, such as a weak vinegar-water solution (1 cup vinegar to 1 gallon water).• Milk• Citric juices (orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, clementines, tangerines)• Italian salad dressing • Tomato juice. Tomato juice will neutralize strong odors. The naturally high acidic content of tomato juice also helps tenderize meat.• Pineapple, which contains citric acid.• Stone fruits, such as cherries, peaches and apricots, also high in citric acid.• Berries are a great…

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The definition of “hunting rifle” has blurred over the decades. Since the vast majority of big-game hunting the last 100 years has been for white-tailed deer, the appetite for different weapon types evolved as their numbers expanded back into habitat devoid of deer for decades. For this reason, you’ll see our selection of hunting rifles dominated by bolt actions. Nonetheless, the once-dominant lever action still holds its own. A LEVER RESURGENCE Winchester and Marlin have long been the dominant lever-gun companies. The popularity of the Winchester Model 1894 started its decline in 1964 when company bean counters cut manufacturing costs and quality suffered. Marlin befell the same fate when it was purchased by Freedom Group and thrown into Remington. Lever-action aficionados know about the abysmal quality control of “Remlins,” essentially…

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