Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2022 i Deer & Deer Hunting

I used to jump when the phone rang, eagerly awaiting the news that my dad had harvested a deer. As I grew older, I could manage short texts on the flip phone my sister and I shared. It could receive pictures, but they were so tiny and hard to retrieve it wasn’t hardly worth sending or receiving any. Nowadays, communication is easy. Though many hunting areas have zero or very spotty service, most hunters are connected some, if not most of the time. Some say using electronics in the woods ruins deer hunting. The reality is, electronics have become an integrated and accepted part of hunting. Cellphones are no longer just a communication tool. Apps like onX Hunt have revolutionized the way hunters use their devices in the woods. Hunters…

Not all deer hunters use a gun, and many who do also bowhunt. Fortunately, there are ways to improve the odds of making a great shot with bow in hand, too. This 15-step process can make you a better archery. PURCHASE the best equipment you can afford. With older bows, purchasing a new set of strings can help it shoot much better. USE an appropriate draw weight. If you can’t slowly, smoothly draw the bow without moving your grip hand, it’s too much weight. SHOOT the correct arrows. Use arrows with the right spine. Most arrow companies have resources available to help select the right arrow for your setup. USE a forgiving release aid. Hard shafts between the release and straps are less so, while tetherstyle connectors are more forgiving,…

Want to get a passionate debate, possibly even fight, going? Definitively tell a large group of hunters that they either need to lay waste to does or not shoot any, as they are what’s needed to rebuild deer numbers. Do that and it’s pretty close to a lock that a passionate debate will follow, and more than a few will tell you you’re nuts, regardless of which side you present. Here’s the rub, though. That debate will likely do absolutely nothing to truly reveal if you should or shouldn’t shoot does on that property. It will merely get the pulse pounding and veins sticking out on necks, but no definitive answers are likely to emerge. Well, let’s see if we can find the correct one for you and your situation,…

It was the biggest buck he had ever shot, but now it was gone. The big deer had appeared like a ghost just before dark at about 170 yards. He was quartering away, but that buck was too good to pass up. The hunter nervously got the scope on him, and tried not to jerk the trigger. The shot felt good, but the deer ran off without showing any sign of being hit. The hunter hurried out of the stand to where he thought the deer was standing. He found no blood, primarily because he was 30 yards closer to his stand than the buck had been. Wisely the hunter circled the spot, and after 10 minutes which seemed more like 10 hours, he found a small pool of blood…

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IN LINE WITH DANIEL SCHMIDT’S EDITOR’S STUMP COLUMN IN THIS ISSUE, WE ASKED THE DEER & DEER HUNTING FACEBOOK FANS THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: “GIVEN THE CHANCE, WOULD YOU USE YOUR BUCK TAG ON A SPIKE?” HERE ARE SOME OF YOUR ANSWERS: YOUR TAG, YOUR choice. I just like the racks and the free dinners that come with the record-book bucks. Spikes will grow heaver head gear they need the time to produce. —Aaron Davis THIS IS ACTUALLY pretty simple. If you have a legal tag, fill it. Not everyone has the time and money to pass on any deer. We meat-hunted for 30+ years. Because we loved to hunt and counted on the meat. We did not have land of our own. So, we hunted private farmland. Then for the…

A five-year study conducted by the University of Maryland and U.S. Department of Agriculture found that deer in suburban environments often bed down and spend the night within 50 meters of residential properties. The study, published in the journal Urban Ecosystems, is the first to detail hourly movements of white-tailed deer throughout different seasons. “A big takeaway from this study is that neighborhoods are the home range of suburban white-tailed deer,” said Jennifer Mullinax, assistant professor in the UMD Department of Environmental Science and Technology and senior author of the study. “Agencies monitoring and estimating suburban deer populations may be missing a huge part of the population if they focus their monitoring efforts only on deer in wooded parks and undeveloped areas, because a lot of the deer are actually…

All this said, I’d be doing a disservice if I didn’t point out the great limitations of those hunting properties under 100 acres in size. Quite truthfully, if we control even a 240, we’re going to be at the neighbor’s mercy to a very great extent. On that 240, there will be very few deer that don’t cross those fence lines. When surrounded by neighbors that fill every tag they can get, we can often make our hunting grounds offer more safety, food and a comfort factor than the neighbor’s properties. So long as we hunt super low impact, we can very often be hunting relatively good deer numbers, while the neighbor aren’t, merely by sucking in a disproportionate number of the area’s deer. That can help greatly in areas…

I was surrounded by fresh rubs and two good scrapes. The Iowa ridge top was torn up with deer sign. Without question, it was the peak of the rut. It was a day deer should be running everywhere. Unfortunately, it also was 83 degrees. What do you do when the peak of the rut falls during a hot spell? That often happens to hunters all over the country. It is common in the South. Well, you can sit and sweat and cuss. A lot of us do that. You can stay home under the air conditioner. Some of us do that. You can go fishing. A few of us do that. However, there is another option — you can go deer hunting. If you are looking for a way to…

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Everyone wants that perfect heart or double lung shot. Strike these, and the deer likely won’t make it out of sight. And if they do, not very far. But things don’t always work out that way, even for experienced hunters who regularly practice with their craft. Sometimes, bullets go astray, and bad shots happen. HEAD: Some gun hunters think a head shot is OK, but it isn’t. It’s far too small of a target, and too much can go wrong. A slight pulling of the shot, or minute movement by the deer, can lead to a long, painful injury. It isn’t worth it. Don’t take that shot. NECK/SPINE: Some hunters advocate the neck shot. In most cases, I disagree. It’s too small of a target and near misses can result…

Maximum deer carrying capacity (expressed as KCC) is determined by habitat quality and weather and is difficult to predict from year-to-year. But knowing average KCC for an area is useful for population goal setting. KCC can be estimated mathematically or by using a couple of shortcuts or indices to KCC. For example, the incidence of fawn breeding is correlated with lower levels of KCC. In southern Wisconsin, more than 50% of fawns might breed in their first year of life as they did during the 1980s. This would suggest that deer populations then were maintained below 40% of KCC. In northern WI, virtually no fawns breed at 6 months of age suggesting that populations there average above 60% of KCC. Also, antler development reflects deer herd physical condition and can…

Can a kid forget Christmas? Can a teenager overlook his 16th birthday? Can a hunter forget opening day? A resounding “NO!” answers all three questions. My little brother got so excited about Christmas he could think of nothing else. One Christmas morning he went downstairs early, separated everyone’s gifts into piles, opened all his own, and told our littler brother what was in each of his. A teenager gets just as pumped about his 16th birthday. In most states it means a new measure of freedom. With a driver’s license, the most immature 16-year old feels adult-y. And a hunter can’t forget opening day. It’s way better than Christmas or birthdays. In the weeks and months leading up to sunrise on that first day, preparation is necessary and scouting is…