Deer Hunting – CWD Q & A

by Doug Leier Chronic Wasting Disease Questions and Answers In the last two years, two North Dakota deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease. These are the first two positive cases discovered in the state among thousands of deer tested over the last decade or so. Here’s a closer look at CWD with some [...]

Deer Hunting Tips – Meat Preparation

by Doug Leier Each year it seems I somehow wind up as part of a large number of hunters who receive a recycled email joke about making beef taste like venison. Most who read it find themselves nodding their head and chuckling, as the masses who’ve gone deer hunting can relate to the uneasy truthfulness [...]

Deer Hunting in North Dakota

by Doug Leier Eighty years ago, during the fall of 1931, Herbert Hoover was President, the Dick Tracy comic strip debuted, and what is often considered the beginning of North Dakota’s modern day deer season began. Hoover, Tracy and deer aren’t related, but together they serve to illustrate how much time has passed since the [...]

Deer Hunting Tattoos

by Nick Roehl Have you ever thought about getting a deer hunting tattoo? I will start by saying I don’t have any tattoos as of now, but I have been thinking the only ones I would get would be deer hunting tattoos or fishing related tattoos. I guess it all comes down to how much [...]

Deer Hunting Questions

by Doug Leier For more than a decade I’ve searched for column topics, but each year as deer season approaches the same questions arise, and the answers bear repeating: What licenses do I need for deer gun season? A fishing, hunting, and furbearer certificate, the general game and habitat stamp or a combination license, and [...]

A Safe Hunt is a Successful Hunt

by Doug Leier A safe hunt is a successful hunt North Dakota hunters have it pretty good. While a lot of conversations this fall relate to somewhat lower deer and pheasant populations, our wildlife numbers are still high compared to a few decades ago, when hunters applied for a first-drawing doe license just to have [...]

What to Make with Deer Antlers

Our Outdoors: DIY Rattling Antlers – What to Make with Deer Antlers By Nick Simonson Do you hear that tick-tick-ticking? It’s either the second hand of the hall clock marking off the moments until I’m up in the stand on bow opener or it’s the beginning of field combat between this year’s herd of whitetail [...]

New PakLite FieldMaster kit

Pack Light, Cut Easy Three Knives for the Weight of One! Developed by hunters to provide hunters with the essential field dressing tools they need, the PakLite FieldMaster kit is the newest, lightweight addition to the Buck Knives broad line of USA made hunting gear. With a total weight of only 12 ounces, it’s like [...]

World Record Whitetail Deer

WORLD RECORD WHITETAIL DEER TYPICAL SCORE OF 213 5/8 B&C There are whitetail racks with thicker beams and greater spreads, but none are a world record whitetail deer with the combination of width, height, symmetry, and grace of the Hanson buck. Its inside spread measures just over 27 inches, and six of the rack’s 10 [...]

Ghost in the Grove

By Nick Simonson As sundown approached one evening, I heard a loud series of crashes in the ten acres of old elms behind me. The repeated footsteps thrashing the leaves and twigs were far more aggressive than those of the doe and fawn that had crept out of the trees a half hour earlier to [...]