Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2020 i Deer & Deer Hunting

If you have followed our online videos or D&DH-TV on Pursuit Channel over the years, you might know that I am not shy when it comes to professing my faith. It’s just who I am, how I was raised, and what I believe deep down in my heart. This is usually displayed in raw emotion every time I walk up on a downed deer. It’s an incredibly humbling moment. Over the past several months, many of you have written to us and expressed that you do the same — pray — when you’re standing over a deer. These are blessed moments. A prayer I’ve been using over the years goes something like this: Dear Father in Heaven, Thank you for this wonderful day. Thank you for this wonderful gift. May…

I wrestled a dead limb from the leaf litter and hurled it at the red fox. They brought $4.75 in bounty, and the pelt was worth a buck. For me, at 15, not much rivaled the dream of taking a fox. He jumped, quickly appraised the situation, and vanished into the pelting sleet storm. The storm made it happen. Without the noise and motion of the sleet, I would never have gotten that close to the fox. I was less than 12 feet from the critter when I tried to deck it with a hunk of hickory. He had his nose in the leaves, apparently thinking he and a mouse were alone in the world. Oh, to have had a gun! That happened during deer season many years ago. Back…

A young deer helped me arrow the big-woods Wisconsin buck. Mr. Big passed within bow range several minutes after legal light, but I couldn’t see my pin well enough and had to watch him pass. However, a little buck’s antics outside the pocket where Mr. Big bedded were apparently too much for the older deer to tolerate. He soon passed my stand again, no doubt focused on schooling the youngster about leaving his area alone. By then, I saw the pin clearly. Watching the Easton vanish through Mr. Big’s boiler room, I knew my next challenge would be getting him back to the truck. That wouldn’t be easy. Still, who doesn’t love those types of issues when hunting? Big woods offer a unique romantic appeal. Growing up in northern Wisconsin…

Since many Deer & Deer Hunting readers extend their hunting season into the spring woods for turkeys, it’s worth noting that the cast-iron skillet is a wonderful tool for cooking up your gobbler. Here are three options. PAN SEARED TURKEY TENDERLOINS OR CUTLETS With a light layer of olive oil and some fresh-crushed garlic, cast iron quick-sizzles prime wild turkey cuts to perfection. Keep pieces about a half-inch thick, and cook through fast, just until the pink is gone. BREADED AND FRIED TURKEY STRIPS Cut turkey breast meat into strips. Roll in seasoned flour or fish coating mix. Pan-fry in an inch of sizzling hot vegetable oil. Simple! Variation: Dip the turkey pieces in a milk/egg combo, then roll in a “flour” crushed from walnut or pecan pieces before searing.…

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Usually, the woods bring out my youth and always have. But today, I’m 65 and admit to feeling it a bit — you know — my age. The woods have always been a place to deliberately feel young; the invigorating hike, the chaste air. And with nothing yet in season, I can bring along a scrambling hound. But today, Audrey, who’s turning toward 9 years old, seems agreeable to a more casual pace, even stopping for a few seconds to sit next to me while I pause for a breather. That’s opposed to the crazy pup that grew into her years racing blissfully about and tearing the hillside up as if time might be pliable. But now look at her: round, bubbly eyes engulfing me, panting tongue contentedly pulsating, aging…

I RECENTLY READ the article “Top Mistakes Hunters Make During the Early Season,” and I have to agree with all three main points. Now … add the stress of public hunting lands, and the guys who walk 10 feet into the woods, 25 minutes before sunset to set up their stands. Oh, and the occasional hiker who didn’t know it was hunting season cause it’s still 75 degrees out. For those reasons and more, it’s almost impossible to hunt my area during the early archery season. — Sean Mabbitt IF YOU DON’T pay attention to the wind, all that pre-season prep was just a waste of time. Having said that, if you don’t pay attention to how and when you approach trail cameras, your season could be over before it…

License dollars, surcharges and special fees support walk-in hunting programs, but federal funding is critical. Programs such as the Voluntary Public Access-Habitat Improvement Program, part of the Farm Bill, provide important money for those kinds of recreational opportunities. Also important are grants and funding from agencies such as the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Pittman-Robertson Act is an excise tax sportsmen asked for on outdoor gear, and it also helps pay the way. Finally, some states have dedicated funding initiatives for outdoors. A final note: Treat any walk-in access lands like you would your own. No, treat them better than your own. The future of walk-in hunting depends on stellar behavior from hunters who enjoy the privilege of using these special lands.…

When I shot my first white-tailed buck, I really had no clue how to hunt America’s favorite big game animal. Back in the late 1970s, I lived in Southern California where I was editor of a weekly outdoor newspaper. I grew up hunting mule deer and their secretive coastal cousins, the Columbia blacktail, and although I’d read a bit about whitetail hunting in Outdoor Life and Field & Stream, I had no clue what all the fuss was about. Then some friends with family in eastern Montana invited me deer hunting. Back then you were allowed a buck of either species, so I thought, “Maybe I’ll try and get one of those whitetail things.” So, one crisp October morning I took a stand at the head of a narrow, brush-filled…

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Find us on Facebook FACEBOOK/DEERHUNTINGMAG SURVEY ON THE TENNESSEE DEER HUNTERS FACEBOOK PAGE TENNESSEE “DEER” FRIENDS, SIMPLE QUESTION: DO YOU LIKE OR LOATHE THE VELVET DEER HUNT? JUST CURIOUS! NATHAN KIMERY I would be a fan of it if I felt people actually read and followed the rules of not hunting public land during velvet season since public is all I hunt. I hope I am wrong, but I have a feeling there are those that hunt public during the velvet season. WILLIAM J. CLARK I don’t believe in it personally, but if other people like it, that’s fine too and congrats to those who were successful this year. GIL LACKEY Never scored but tons of fun. It’s a gift. Enjoy it. And anyone who tells you bucks in velvet…

Work ranks among the many anchors of my life, along with family, nature, the outdoors and friends. Yes work, in the form of making a living (I’m fortunate to do things I love, though I’m not getting wealthy) and also effort expended doing things I love and for which I live. For me, that’s the outdoors, especially hunting. I’ve tried to pass that ethic along to my now-20-something children, who also love the outdoors and are starting to make lifestyle decisions about who they will be. Nothing comes easy, but you get out more than you put in. Wisconsin deer hunting is an outdoor anchor for my boys and me. I grew up doing it, plan to keep doing it until they have to carry me to my stand, and…

I’d hunted six weeks without an opportunity at a roebuck. Then it rained all day, and conditions were right for one of my best spots: a triangular opening surrounded by three bedding areas. To get through the bedding area undetected in the evening requires wet ground. The slow, silent sneak went well, and I carefully set up my hunting stool and sat. Glancing up, I noticed a buck coming toward me fast, already at 25 yards. My rifle was still in front of me on the ground, so I carefully picked it up, pushed the safety forward and put it to my shoulder. By then, the buck was just 8 yards away and looking at me. I pulled the trigger. The buck dashed 50 yards and collapsed. At 8 or…

No cooking tool does as much, as well, as the good old-fashioned cast-iron skillet. Cast iron has been a preferred choice for cooks around the world for centuries, beginning with the horsemen of ancient Mongolia (a culture which knew something about simple, straightforward cooking), expanding during the industrial revolution in England and Holland (where the first forges created pans that look much like today’s models) and continuing on the American frontier, where the black skillet was a staple of every cook set, kitchen or hearth. From quick-searing thin and delicate strips of tenderloin for one minute to simmering a tough flank steak all afternoon, or from building a hearty pan stew for a hot meal on a cold winter’s evening to browning ground venison for taco meat or spaghetti sauce,…

Successful archers develop routines to get them through stressful shooting scenarios, whether it’s winning a 3D-tournament shoot-off or an opportunity at a season-making buck. These are checklists of sorts, step-by-step checkpoints to assure you do everything correctly during anxious moments, because the mind under pressure tends to lose its sense of time — hurrying and cutting corners in the process. As a former big game guide, one of the most common mental short circuits witnessed was failure to aim, or at least aim properly. The basic problem is most bowhunters view aiming as a one-step process — put the pin where you want to hit and let ’er rip, explaining why they also miss so many slam-dunk shots. In reality, there are three discernible steps to proper aiming, represented by…