Stalking Whitetail Deer

By Brandon Wikman You will find whitetails in all nooks and crannies across the country. They inhabit nearly all types of environments and terrain. Whitetail have evolved into a highly-adaptable critter that will call just about anything ‘home.’ From canyons…

Deer Whitetail – 5 Tips

1. You hunted the wrong area. You’ll never shoot a huge buck if you hunt where no huge bucks live. Sounds elementary, but it’s not. If you’re not seeing big deer on land you’ve hunted for years, move. A…

Illinois Monster Bucks – Shed Hunting

Thanks to Steve from Illinois for sending these 4 tremendous photos:

Mike: I know you like big 8 points so here’s a matched set I found a few years ago (top photo); 75" each side and we have a photo of him wearing this rack,…

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 [...]

Testing Buck Fever

By Nick Simonson As a beginning bow hunter, I fall victim to what I’m sure are rookie mistakes. The sound of a squirrel on the ground, rustling through leaves for a bite of food is about all it takes to get my heart pumping and I find myself overamped at the noise. However, I am [...]

Deer Stand Safety

By Nick Simonson While in the throes of a hotly contested battle with the seat section of a new 15-foot ladder stand, I took a break from what is now becoming a late summer ritual to get a drink of water and my bearings while looking over the assembly manual. It wasn’t the antler fever-inducing [...]

Preparing for Bow Hunting Season

By Nick Simonson In between nights of trolling spinners for walleyes and weekends of casting heavy metal for muskies, I have been taking steps to make sure the approaching autumn is as successful, if not more so, than last year’s – which was one of my best. Whether it has been a battery of arrows [...]

Deer Decoy Strategies

By Curt Wells I  hate it when a buck doesn’t pay attention. My soft grunts turned into pig-like snarffles as the big eight-pointer just kept striding away, into the stiff breeze. He crossed a small open meadow, then dropped into a creekbottom and up the other side. When he reached level ground again he finally [...]

Bow Hunting Whitetails in the Late Season

By Curt Wells If you’re from North Dakota you take a lot of grief about how cold the winters are. It’s just a fact of life. It’s also a fact that many of us like the cold weather, or more accurately, the change of seasons. But the cold weather does a couple of other things [...]

Whitetail Bow Hunting Tips

By Curt Wells Nothing strikes fear in the heart of a bowhunter like the sound of hoof steps behind him. It can paralyze you with terror – unless you’re ready for it. I heard that petrifying sound one November morning in North Dakota, just as the day filtered into the trees. It stunned me because [...]