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Late Summer Deer Watching
By P.J. Reilly
It’s the last two hours of a beautiful late summer evening. The air is still. The cicadas are singing. And the deer are filtering out of the woods into the local fields. Now’s the time to grab multiple sets of binoculars, pack the family into the truck, onto the bikes or into their boots, and head out for some deer watching.
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The Importance of Soil Testing in the Whitetail World
By Buckmasters
Creating a successful food plot for whitetail deer is more than just scattering seeds and hoping for the best. To attract and sustain a healthy deer population, the quality of the forage you plant is critical. One of the most important steps in ensuring the success of your food plot is conducting a soil test. This simple yet often overlooked proces... READ MORE
Choosing The Right Arrow for a Compound Bow
By Buckmasters
Choosing the right arrow for a compound bow is crucial for accuracy, effectiveness, and safety in hunting or target shooting. Several factors, such as the type of game you're hunting, the poundage of your bow, and the length of your arrow, play significant roles in this decision.
1. Type of Game You're Hunting
Small Game: If you’re ... READ MORE
Grilled Panko Crusted Red Snapper on the Half Shell!
By Buckmasters
If you ever get a chance to get your hands on some red snapper, then this recipe is a must try! The good thing is that it doesn't necessarily have to be red snapper, it can be any type of fish. We were lucky enough to go out and catch these red snappers ourselves, so they were super fresh and absolutely incredible! Now follow alon... READ MORE
The Importance of Whitetail Mineral Sites
By Buckmasters
It’s no secret, mineral sites are the way to help strengthen and grow your deer herd during any time of the year, but especially the summer months. The biggest question we get however is, what do these mineral sites consist of?
Whitetail Mineral Sites: “In case you are new here”
Whitetail mineral sites are designated are... READ MORE
Get Bit!
By Buckmasters
You haven’t fished until you’ve done it bare-handed!
Handfishing, hogging, grabbling, noodling — whatever you want to call it, the concept is the same: go under water and catch a catfish with your bare hands! If that sounds more scary than exciting, then read on. Chances are the dangers and fears you might have about noodling a... READ MORE
America’s Wolf: The Red Wolf
By Aspen Stevanovski
Everybody knows about gray wolves (Canis lupus), the robust canids made famous during the Yellowstone reintroduction. But what most people forget about are the critically endangered red wolf (Canis rufus) native to the southeastern and midwestern United States. Those who do know about red wolves might have questions or heard concerning things about... READ MORE
Mastering the Art of Catching Bass on Their Beds
By Buckmasters
Bass fishing during the spawning season offers anglers an exhilarating challenge: catching bass on their beds. It's a time when the bass are guarding their nests with ferocity, presenting a unique opportunity for skilled anglers. Figuring out the art of catching bass on their beds requires understanding their behavior, employing the right technique... READ MORE
Introducing Children to Fishing
By Buckmasters
Introducing a child to fishing can be a rewarding and enriching experience for both kids and parents alike. Not only does it offer an opportunity to bond with nature, but it also teaches valuable life skills such as patience, perseverance, and respect for the environment. Here are some tips on how to get kids interested and involved in fishing:
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Venison Coffee Cake Breakfast Fatty
By Buckmasters
A breakfast fatty is one of my favorite things to make! Just for the fact that they are so versatile and not mention, quite tasty! So for this one, we took venison sausage and stuffed it with coffee cake! It is the perfect combo of sweet and savory and makes for one incredible bite!
Nothing beats those cold mornings at the hunt... READ MORE
Beaver Trapping
By Norm Haley
Article provided by: Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Beaver play a crucial role in the ecosystems where they live, engineering habitat which generates a tremendous diversity of plants, animals, and aquatic life. However, beaver numbers in Alabama have increased to the point of causing millions of dollars in economic damage annually. T... READ MORE
Who Needs Does?
By Steve Bartylla
Wrapped in my Heater Body Suit, the cold wasn’t an issue. If it wasn’t for the large oak swaying during the stiff gusts, I might have forgotten the strong mid-November cold front had dipped temperatures into single digits.
Everybody knows extreme temperature drops paired with gale force winds put the brakes on rutting activity as th... READ MORE
Never Underestimate the Rut
By P.J. Reilly
Some things in life are guaranteed.
The sun will rise and set every day.
Death will take us all.
The whitetail rut will occur around the same time of year — regardless of the weather.
El Nino reared its ugly head in early November 2015 around my home in southeast Pennsylvania. It was ungodly hot, with daytime highs in the mid 70... READ MORE
Molly’s Senior Trip
By Russell Thornberry
If I said Molly Darnell was an unconventional young lady, that would be an understatement. She’s a country girl through and through. She loves animals and has had pet pigs, deer and turkeys, just to name a few of her critters.
Molly was born into a family of serious hunters. For her father, Dale, and three brothers, Wes, Rush and Reese, l... READ MORE
Big Woods Bucks
By Darron McDougal
The timber giant’s sudden appearance along the edge of a year-old clearcut interrupted the serene December evening.
“I hadn’t seen the buck previously,” Jeff Aulik, a whitetail expert from Wisconsin, recalled. “My shot was well placed, and when I backtracked him through the snow, I found he’d been following m... READ MORE
Hunt, Eat, Sleep, Repeat
By Steve Bartylla
It was the highlight of my hunting life. I’d taken my oldest daughter Beth with me a few times every year since she was 6, but we’d never connected on a buck together. Now I was sure it was finally going to happen.
Part of my optimism was because my client and friend Donal Barry Jr. offered up his ground. Having managed it for three... READ MORE
He Went Where?
By Ed Waite
Working outdoors clearing power line right-of-ways can be exhausting, but it has its perks, too — like getting to see a lot of wildlife and potential hunting property.
Late in the summer of 2014, Brice Jenny was on the job in north-central Pennsylvania when he saw a buck crossing an open field.
“He was really big even then, but ... READ MORE
Does Age Matter?
By Bob Humphrey
Through dense fog that had waxed and waned all morning, I noticed what at first was just a vague shape. I could tell by the way it moved he was a buck, probably an older one. He walked along slowly, deliberately, as with an objective that would come at a time and place of his choosing.
First, the fog gradually revealed a square body, then a tal... READ MORE
12th Hour Buck
By P.J. Reilly
The Pittsburgh Steelers were losing 7-6 to the Oakland Raiders in a 1972 playoff game with just 22 seconds left on the clock. It was fourth and 10 — the Steelers’ last chance to make something happen — when quarterback Terry Bradshaw heaved a pass that bounced off two colliding players and fell into the hands of legendary running ... READ MORE
Third Time’s the Charm
By Ed Waite
It was bitterly cold during the 2013 Ohio late muzzleloader season, but Scott Beam was determined to sit tight until dark. Hunting from a ground blind on his 75-acre farm in the west-central portion of the Buckeye State, Scott was sheltered from the wind. But it was the kind of cold that didn’t need wind to make a hunter miserable.
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