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Michigan DNR Awards Deer Habitat Improvement Grants to UP Conservation Organizations

by Outdoor Hub May 22, 2012
Michigan DNR Awards Deer Habitat Improvement Grants to UP Conservation Organizations

Seven Upper Peninsula conservation organizations will receive Deer Habitat Improvement Partnership Initiative grants from the Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Division in 2012, DNR officials announced today. The projects, totaling $49,235 of DHIPI grant money, will improve deer habitat in Alger, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon and Schoolcraft counties. The DHIPI [...]

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Recharge Your Herd Health with Rack One’s XCellerator Mineral and Overload Nutritional Supplements

by Outdoor Hub May 17, 2012
Recharge Your Herd Health with Rack One’s XCellerator Mineral and Overload Nutritional Supplements

If you’ve spent any time on your whitetail hunting property lately, you’ve probably noticed two events taking place: the does are beginning to show off distended bellies, and the bucks have started displaying some growths of their own. With pregnancies and antler growth progressing, there’s no time of the year when it’s more important to [...]

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Michigan Organization to Host Meeting on Proposed Deer Antler Point Restrictions May 17

by Outdoor Hub May 10, 2012
Michigan Organization to Host Meeting on Proposed Deer Antler Point Restrictions May 17

The Northwest Michigan Chapter of the Quality Deer Management Association, in partnership with Leelanau Whitetails, has proposed new antler point restrictions (APR) for the following 12 counties: Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Lake, Manistee, Missaukee, Mason, Osceola and Wexford. This proposal seeks to require that all antlered deer harvested in the area have at [...]

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Mississippi DWFP and MSU to Host Deer Management Workshops

by Outdoor Hub May 2, 2012
Mississippi DWFP and MSU to Host Deer Management Workshops

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and Mississippi State University are planning four workshops throughout the state to teach participants how to better manage their land for white-tailed deer. The workshops are in two-day sets, and participants may register for one or both days. Workshops will be held June 1 in Vicksburg at Hinds [...]

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“Badlands” Await as Pure Hunting Searches for Mule Deer Today on Sportsman Channel

by Outdoor Hub May 2, 2012
“Badlands” Await as Pure Hunting Searches for Mule Deer This Wednesday on Sportsman Channel

The Badlands are treacherous, vast and full of big deer – a perfect recipe for Pure Hunting! Sportsman Channel, the leader in outdoor TV for the American sportsman, is taking viewers on an epic spot and stalk archery hunt through the Badlands of South Dakota for mule deer. Hunting mule deer in a tree stand [...]

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Two Craig Area Men Sentenced, Fined for Poaching in Montana

by Outdoor Hub April 30, 2012

A pair of men from the Craig area facing 25 counts related to poaching and illegal outfitting agreed to a plea bargain recently and will pay $21,000 in total restitution and lose forever their privileges to hunt, fish and trap or accompany anyone else doing so. Steve Bruyere, 52, pleaded guilty to eight misdemeanors: three [...]

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Local Food Banks Benefit from Generosity of Ohio Hunters

by Outdoor Hub April 25, 2012

Ohio deer hunters donated more than 104,400 pounds of venison to local food banks through the 2011-12 deer hunting season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The venison donation equals approximately 417,600 meals for Ohioans in need. A total of 2,088 [...]

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Whitetail Food Plots: Honey Holes for All Acreage, Part 1

by Whitetail Food Plots April 9, 2012
Whitetail Food Plots: Honey Holes for All Acreage, Part 1

Many people are skeptical as to whether or not food plots or those ‘honey hole-sweet spots’ in the middle of the woods really work. Well, after almost 24 years of food plotting, I’m here to say, YES, they DO. After suffering a serious hand injury that limited the range of my deer hunting and hampered [...]

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National Park Service to Take Action Against Encroaching Deer Herds in Washington, D.C.

by Mike Bolton February 29, 2012
National Park Service to Take Action Against Encroaching Deer Herds in Washington, D.C.

Many Americans believe that those in Washington just don’t understand the problems many of us face. Well, it’s obvious that they understand at least one. The National Parks Service has announced that it will bring in sharpshooters in the nation’s capital in an attempt to slow down the deer population explosion in Washington and its [...]

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The Best Time to Hunt Whitetail in Texas

by Sky Watkins February 28, 2012
The Best Time to Hunt Whitetail in Texas

My whole life growing up I watched Jackie Bushman and Bill Jordan show the world what it was like to hunt the rut in Texas. I can remember sitting in front of the TV with a stick of beef jerky just wishing that it was November already and that the rut would be here soon. [...]

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Mississippi Considers Legalizing Deer Breeding Farms

by Outdoor Hub Reporters February 28, 2012
Legislation to Legalize Deer Breeding Farms Pending Among Conflict

Legislators in Mississippi have to decide whether to legalize deer breeding farms with the potential risk of simultaneously breeding chronic wasting disease (CWD). Sen. Tommy Gollott, R-Biloxi, is the author of a second-attempt bill introduced in 2012 to allow for importation of white-tailed deer, semen, ova and embryos into Mississippi, according to a report by [...]

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Hot Spot Outfitter Spotlight: Kansas’ Blue River Whitetails

by Brandon Wikman February 27, 2012
Hot Spot Outfitter Spotlight: Kansas’ Blue River Whitetails

With today’s outfitter’s get-rich-quick mentality coupled with amplifying quantity versus quality, weld has been forged on the wallet of several thousand hard working hunters in search of a legitimate deer operation to spend their well-earned dollars. With outfitters sprouting from every nook and cranny of the country, it’s time to separate the wheat from the [...]

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Western Whitetail Magazine Hits E-stands

by Outdoor Hub February 16, 2012
Western Whitetail magazine cover with hunter, Scott Haugen.

Western Whitetail Magazine, spring 2012 Issue – Western Whitetail has taken publication to the next level, and has published their inaugural issue of Western Whitetail Magazine. Like their blog site (www.westernwhitetail.com), their magazine covers western white-tailed deer hunting from Mexico to Canada and from the far mid-West to the Pacific Northwest. The magazine will be [...]

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Key Statistics from the 2012 QDMA Whitetail Deer Report

by Agnieszka Spieszny February 15, 2012
Statistics from the 2012 QDMA Whitetail Deer Report

More bucks were harvested in 2010 than in 2009, according to the data from 35 states compiled in the 2012 Whitetail Report by the Quality Deer Management Association. The 60-page report (pdf) lists information on harvests, species’ range, sex ratio, and other popular management topics in the United States and Canada. In this article, I’ve [...]

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QDMA Releases 2012 Whitetail Report

by Outdoor Hub February 14, 2012
QDMA Releases 2012 Whitetail Report

Bogart, GA– The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) announced on Tuesday the official release of the 2012 Whitetail Report, the most comprehensive report on the status of white-tailed deer available anywhere. The 2012 Whitetail Report can be viewed as a PDF online at www.qdma.com/media-room. Created to emphasize the critical position of whitetails as the foundation [...]

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“Mr. Whitetail” Larry Weishuhn’s Deer Hunting Tips

by NRAblog January 31, 2012
Mr. White Tail, Larry Weishuhn’s Deer Hunting Tips

There’s a reason they call Larry Weishuhn Mr. Whitetail. It’s not because of television shows (on the Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, etc …) or award winning writings (both books and articles) or his induction into the National Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame. The name spread because of these accolades, but it’s not why [...]

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Whitetails Unlimited Announces My First Deer Winners

by Outdoor Hub January 16, 2012
Whitetails Unlimited Announces My First Deer Winners

Whitetails Unlimited has named the winners of the 2011 My First Deer program drawing, with winners from Missouri, Minnesota, and Ohio. The My First Deer program celebrates that rite of passage when a hunter takes their first white-tailed deer, an important part of a hunter’s personal hunting heritage. The My First Deer Drawing winners for [...]

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Hog Hunting in Sarasota, Florida

by Outdoor Hub December 30, 2011
Holiday Hunting in Sarasota, Florida

After our charter fishing trip off the coast, it was time to do some holiday hunting in Sarasota with my good buddy Eric Johnson. He leases 350 acres just about 40 miles from my parents’ house here in Florida. It’s a very cool set up, maybe 6 miles back off a public road road where [...]

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Only a Few Days Left for Your Chance at Michigan’s Hunt of a Lifetime

by Outdoor Hub December 22, 2011
Past Pure Michigan Hunt winner Randy Willis with the 6x6 elk he harvested as part of his hunt of a lifetime. Photo courtesy of Steve Koss, Big Boy Adventures.

With 2011 drawing to a close, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that the last day to purchase Pure Michigan Hunt applications is Saturday, Dec. 31. Applicants can purchase an unlimited number of $4 chances for Michigan’s “Hunt of a Lifetime” anywhere DNR licenses are sold or online at www.mdnr-elicense.com. Three lucky hunters [...]

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Hunt Masters Presents Whitetail Double Feature

by Outdoor Hub December 20, 2011
Hunt Masters Presents Whitetail Double Feature

Portsmouth, NH – This week on “Hunt Masters”, join professional hunters Gregg Ritz and Stan Potts as they head to Illinois to hunt trophy whitetails with their Thompson/Center muzzleloaders. With their stand sites secured in some of the most pristine whitetail country you’ll find anywhere, Gregg and Stan spend considerable time in search of their [...]

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