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Depending on where you live in the country, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is either something you’ve just read about, or it’s something you try not to think too hard about while you’re sending in your harvest for mandatory testing. What’s scary about CWD is that it’s basically like Mad Cow Disease, only for deer. It’s…
What do deer fear the most? If you’re a deer hunter, many’s the time you’ve heard the sounds of other predators in the woods, and cursed them. Deer are easily spooked … but what spooks them the most? What natural predator is most likely to spoil your hunt (or get to the biggest buck on…
How to age a deer comes down to one rule: you cannot age a buck by his antlers, and the hunters who try are the ones who shoot a 2½-year-old every November and wonder why the neighborhood never grows a giant. Age lives in the body — the legs, the belly, the way the neck…
COVID-19 sent millions of new hunters into the woods, and conservation benefited. Deer hunters in the United States harvested an estimated 6.3 million white-tailed deer in the 2020-21 hunting season, the most since 2001, according to the National Deer Association’s latest Deer Report released this week. Harvests of both antlered bucks and antlerless deer were…
America’s public-land hunters have an angel who has requested privacy, and we thank him or her. Here at Popular Outdoorsman, we often spend time sadly discussing the people who abuse our public lands and the animals that make their home there. So it’s a lovely day when we can happily discuss the people who cherish…
