Why Are These 3 Whitetail Bucks So Different in Size?
Jun 8, 2022Moriah Boggess
“He’s a good buck for the area.” My guess is you have heard this phrase many times and may have even said it yourself. It’s a well-intentioned congratulatory statement to someone who has taken an…
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How I Fooled 4 Mature Deer
Sep 15, 2021Kip Adams
Deer hunting is fun. I have been thrilled by the chase since before I was old enough to legally hunt. Four decades ago, mature bucks were nonexistent on our Pennsylvania farm. Mature does were abundant,…
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If You Pass a Mature Buck, Will He Grow Bigger Antlers?
Nov 4, 2020Lindsay Thomas Jr.
You’ve got a 5½-year-old buck standing broadside in your sights, and he’s yours to take home with you if you want him. He’s heavy-bodied, fully mature and carries a large rack of antlers. But as…
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Rub and Repeat: Bucks Return to A Few Rubs, Not All
Sep 26, 2018Kip Adams
Have you ever placed your trail-camera to monitor a rub without success? Many rubs are never visited again by the bucks that made them or by other deer. However, some rubs are a little more…
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Find Your Buck Harvest Sweet Spot
May 29, 2018Lindsay Thomas Jr.
Prescribed fire brings a bonus to hunters in the South, where dense forest cover dominates most landscapes: Fire helps us find sheds. Most sheds in my personal collection are blackened by fire, and it was…
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When is Peak Rut? Your Trail-Cameras Can Tell You.
Nov 15, 2017Lindsay Thomas Jr.
When you harvest a doe late in a hunting season, you can measure any fetuses the doe is carrying using a special scale and determine when they were conceived. With enough fetal measurements, you can…
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3 Ways Bucks Win the Rut
Nov 6, 2017Kip Adams
Do you believe the list of attributes a buck must possess to be a successful breeder is long or short? Does it change depending on where you are in the whitetail’s range? Much research has…
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The Payoff of Passing Young Bucks
Oct 18, 2017Mark Turner
As the buck edged along the creek, I tried to get a better glimpse of him. I had yet to see his body well enough to put an age on him. He turned toward me,…
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See One Buck’s Amazing Post-Rut Decline and Recovery
Apr 28, 2016Lindsay Thomas Jr.
It’s rare that we as hunters of wild whitetails can piece together a lifelong photo album for a single buck. Antler size and character make such drastic leaps in the first three years that it…
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Whitetail Bucks Are Not Territorial
Oct 27, 2015Lindsay Thomas Jr.
A buck can vanish from your hunting area for many reasons: hunting pressure, killed by a neighbor or poacher, hit by a car, died from injuries in a fight with another buck, brain abscess, a long…
