Make the Call Fast: Did You Educate Them, Or Did Their Routine Change? Most of the time deer stop coming to your stand because you

Pick A Wind That Lets You Get Away With Your Access The best wind direction for morning deer hunts is the one that keeps your

Decide What “Disappear” Means, Then Hunt Like They Didn’t Leave Big bucks do not vanish during gun season. They clamp down, shift beds, and move

Pick a Plot You Can Actually Grow in Sand. The best food plot for sandy soil is a simple mix of cereal rye and oats

Decide Your Plot Size First, Not Your Seed Brand I plan on about 1 acre of food plot for every 8 to 12 deer I

Pick One Based on Your Dirt and Your Time. If you have decent soil and you want a “plant it and forget it” perennial, I

Should You Use TSI to Improve Deer Habitat? Yes, TSI works for deer habitat improvement if you do it around bedding cover and travel corridors,

Start Here: What I Actually Do on Corps Ground I hunt Army Corps of Engineers deer ground by treating it like pressured public land, not

Updated on September 7, 2026. Confirm seasons, baiting, carcass rules, and tags on the Wisconsin DNR deer page before you buy a license. This box

Updated on September 7, 2026. National forest hunting follows state seasons, tags, and baiting rules on federal ground. Confirm the forest motor vehicle use map

Updated on September 7, 2026. This page is the eastern Montana BLM trip, not a reprint of the statewide plan. Confirm hunting-district rules, species/sex, and

Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide tags, unit quotas, and the December firearm calendar live on the Kansas deer hunting page. This page is what

Updated on September 7, 2026. This is a two-state public-land trip, not a statewide regs dump. Missouri dates and fees live on the MDC deer

Get the Roast Tender by Picking the Right Method for the Cut You Have The fastest way I tenderize a tough deer roast is a

Pick the Right Cuts and Your Jerky Gets Easy The best cuts of deer for jerky are the top round, bottom round, eye of round,

Pick Your Temperature and Stick With It The best smoker temperature for deer summer sausage is 165 degrees to 175 degrees for most of the

How Long I Age Deer Meat in the Fridge (And Why). I age deer meat in a refrigerator for 3 to 7 days most of

Make the Call Early, Not After You Have Wrecked the Track I call a tracking dog as soon as I think I might bump the

Make the Call Fast: Bright Red Blood Usually Means Lung, Muscle, or a High Hit Bright red blood while tracking usually means you hit lungs

Make the Call Fast: Dead Deer, Hit Deer, or Miss? If you have no blood trail, you still have a very real chance of finding

How Long to Wait After a Gut Shot and What to Do Right Now If you gut shot a deer, I wait 8 to 12

Make One Decision Right Now: Back Out Or Keep Going. If you lose blood trail, the best move most of the time is to stop,

Pick Your Crossbow Like You Pick A Stand Location If you want the simplest, toughest setup that keeps shooting in nasty weather and you do

The Short Answer I Tell My Buddy at the Tailgate Neither Bowtech nor Mathews “shoots better” across the board, because the better-shooting bow is the