Becoming a Student of Whitetail Deer – By Steve Bartylla Part 4: A Seasonal Guide To Hunting White-Tailed Deer The rut is a phase like no other in both the white-tailed deer and bowhunter’s lives. Chaos reins supreme during this period....
Becoming a Student of Whitetail Deer – By Steve Bartylla Part #1: A Seasonal Guide To Hunting White-Tailed Deer SCOUTING An Old Timer once told me “the only constant, in patterning deer, is change and the only way to keep up with...
Becoming a Student of Whitetail Deer – By Steve Bartylla Habitat Improvement: Volume #1 With this piece, I am going to start an article dedicated to habitat improvement. This is a subject that I really enjoy. Why? Because it offers the...
Trapping animals of all sorts have always been a real fascination of mine. Like anything you do in life long enough, you begin to streamline or find ways to “Do it Better”. There was a time in my life that I...
Cautiously, he meandered through the brush along the woods edge, pausing every few steps to test the cool, damp air, his nose held high, trying to verify that no dangers were imminent. Although he was only 1 1/2 years old, this...
It didn’t take long for me to be convinced of the effectiveness of using deer decoys. Many bowhunters have yet to discover how exciting using a decoy can be. Much like rattling, decoys can provide you with action that would have...
Ask a hundred deer hunters if they think the tactic of calling deer works or not and you’ll get a variety of responses. Some say it will, some say it won’t, and while others say it works, but only in certain...
IS THIS HUNTING? That headline caught my eye over 15 years ago as the cover story of a prominent hunting magazine displayed on the rack at the grocery store. The cover photo depicted a mature, big racked buck feeding on a...
Mid-January 2005. You could not have asked for a more beautiful afternoon to spend perched in the trees, sharing space created for squirrels and avian friends alike, waiting for a fat young doe to meander by. A deep clear blue sky...
Whitetail deer hunting is one of the most popular sports in the United States. You could read magazine after magazine and watch videos over and over that give you a wide variety of deer hunting tips, but the best way to...