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’s hard to imagine when American hunters weren’t completely obsessed with whitetails. Deer hunting took off in the 1950s, but it wasn’t until the early 1970s when it started taking shape as a national pastime. There were outlets for hunters in the 1950s and ’60s, but most of them — Outdoor Life, Field & Stream and Sports Afield — were generalist sources of all things hunting and fishing. That changed in 1973 when Jack Brauer and Al Hofacker of northeast Wisconsin took the name of their 1960s deer camp, The Stump Sitters, and turned it into a study group that wanted to unearth practical and comprehensive information on nothing but white-tailed deer. The photo here shows the early progression of the Stump Sitters, who begot Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine,…
CONNECT & WATCH OUR 4 SHOWS WWW.DEERANDDEERHUNTING.COM DEER & DEER HUNTING MODERN HUNTER DDH PROPERTIES DEERTOPIA SOCIAL MEDIA, WEBSITES/STREAMING APPS FACEBOOK: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/DEERHUNTINGMAG YOUTUBE: WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/DDHONLINE INSTAGRAM: WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/DEERANDDEERHUNTING PURSUITUP: WWW.PURSUITUPTV.COM/DEER-AND-DEER-HUNTING/ WAYPOINT TV: WWW.WAYPOINTTV.COM/DEER-AND-DEER-HUNTING WILDTV: WWW.WILDTV.CA/PROGRAM/DEERDEER RUMBLE: WWW.RUMBLE.COM/C/DEERANDDEEERHUNTING TWITTER: @DEERHUNTINGMAG PINTEREST: WWW.PINTEREST.COM/DEERHUNTINGMAG/ BROADCAST TELEVISION PURSUIT CHANNEL - SATURDAY NIGHT DEER CAMP WILD TV WAYPOINT TV WHAT’S NEW ON FACEBOOK? This is how trail surveillance started! Deer & Deer Hunting cofounder Al Hofacker checks a “trail rope” as part of his Stump Sitters research in 1973. Hofacker and Jack Brauer used ropes and wires to monitor deer trails for activity during summer scouting. They eventually wired alarm clocks to stop when the wire was pulled. These ideas were later brought to market by other individuals and eventually led to trail cameras. BUCK OF THE…
In September 2007, Dr. Frank O. Bastian, with a team of neuropathologists specializing in Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) diseases, published a paper in the “Journal of Medical Microbiology” demonstrating that spiroplasma bacteria were associated with TSE diseases. Chronic Wasting Disease in deer is one of several TSE diseases. Dr. Bastian first identified the novel (new and unique) spiroplasma bacteria while doing autopsies of patients who died from dementia. He found that 13% of the patients had Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (a human TSE disease) and that the spiroplasma was found in all of these cases. This discovery of a bacteria in patients with CJD was a challenge to the prion theory first advanced in 1982. Although prions are widely believed to cause TSE diseases, to date no one has discovered the mechanism…
Sixty years after one of the biggest typical whitetails in the world was harvested, the buck has finally earned its rightful place in the record books. Frederick Kyress bagged the buck on his farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1950s and kept the antlers in a barn for 40 years. A collector bought them, and they sat in an antique shop for another 20 years. They were bought and sold a few times until they finally found a home at the King of Bucks collection at Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. THE BUCK SCORED 204-6/8 B&C POINTS AND IS THE SIXTH LARGEST TYPICAL WHITETAIL EVER IN THE BOONE AND CROCKETT WORLD-RECORD BOOK. Another recent entry was a mammoth nontypical from Tennessee.…
Urp! Urp! Urp! I stopped in mid-stride and peered into the ravine below. A mature buck was trailing a hot doe somewhere in the brush-choked cavern. I immediately pulled out a grunt tube and emitted a few long estrous doe bleats followed by a series of tending buck grunts and then waited. Urp! Urp! Urp! I suddenly realized the buck was heading uphill toward me. I pulled an arrow from my quiver and nocked it just as the 8-pointer appeared to my right. I came to full draw, and the buck stopped behind some brush to look for the source of the bleats and grunts. He nonchalantly dropped his nose to the ground as if to feed, but then snapped his head back up before moving forward in search of…
I am sure you have heard the phrase, “Going one too many times to the well.” The saying relates to doing the exact same thing over and over with decreasing instances of success. Most of us are guilty of going to the well too often in one thing or another, and for good reason. The success experienced early on was so great that it makes it tempting to continue doing the same thing even when the results change. We think to ourselves, “Maybe one more time … surely it will work again this time.” Most times, however, it does not work. In fact, the results usually become progressively worse. Hunters are not immune to this phenomenon, either. Say, for instance, that you have killed a big buck out of one…
