We're in the heart of the rut now. If you hunted this past week, your woods were probably rocking, with does flying through the timber, tongues lolling, and bucks hot on their tails. As we move into ...

I use the bleat in several different ways. If the action is slow while I’m set up over a doe decoy and there’s no sign of deer in the area, I’ll give off a couple of bleats to see if I can attract a ...

For many hunters, the only deer sound they’ve ever heard is the loud alarm snort deer make when they sense something is amiss. The resulting “blow” alerts deer near and far that there might be an ...

Most bowhunters now carry a deer call or two, but few use them on early season hunts. While it is true that calling is most effective during late pre-rut and the rut itself, if you go about it right, ...

Veteran hunter Mike Joyner, of McGraw, had a fruitful opening day of deer hunting Sunday in the Southern Zone. He wrote: "Pair was taken 7:30 am Sunday-opening weekend on our property, McGraw NY. Buck ...