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Alaska Trapping – Living the Dream

January 31, 2012

Alaska Trapping – Living the Dream By David G Duncan Klutina River Valley with Mt. Drum of the Wrangell – St. Elias Mountain Range in background. ——————————————————————————– The Alaska Trapping season for fox, pine marten, etc. opens each year on the tenth of November, which definitely ensures all furs harvested will be of high [...]

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Whitetail Waterholes for Small Parcels

January 30, 2012

Not every parcel needs more water. However…if you have daytime bedding areas with dry ambush sites on the way to evening food sources, adding water can be an outstanding feature to your small parcel. Large ponds can take up way too much space, while at the same time creating an area of higher stress levels [...]

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Corners will forever be "the one that got away". I may not have been able to harvest him but I certainly learned a thing or two from him.

Whitetail Weekly, Top 5 Deer Hunts of the Season

January 29, 2012

Last year around this time I came up with the idea to do a “Top 5″ entry detailing my 5 favorite hunts of the season. It was a fun entry to put together and seemed to spark some conversation as well so I decided I would do it again this year. I remember it being difficult to [...]

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Using Old Sign for Solving the Puzzle of Mature Buck Patterns

January 23, 2012

It was a beautiful thing…the beagles were howling in the background, the deer were long gone and had migrated into the deer yards, and the layers of snowbase that had accumulated through late February were deeper than a 36″ snowshoe when it was stabbed into the blanketed frozen ground below. Another great afternoon with the [...]

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Good rubs, like this one I found this year, definitely get noted in my journal.

Whitetail Weekly, Keeping a Journal of your Hunting Season

January 21, 2012

If you follow my blog at all you have probably heard me preach a time or two on the benefits of Keeping a Journal of your Hunting Season. I like to write more than most people so it is no surprise that I would keep a journal but even if you aren’t a fan of [...]

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Whitetail Defense: Combatting Deer Property Trespassers

January 20, 2012

www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com *actual 2011 trespasser being currently “hunted” for prosecution The 2-acre food plot was lush, green, full of forage and meticulously cared for with experienced and knowledgeable hands. Approximately 600’ long, the 150’ wide north/south planting was truly a focus of destination for the local deer herd. The improved bedding areas on both the east [...]

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Buck Trails: High Powered Mature Buck Movement

January 19, 2012

*www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com Back in 1999 I purchased 120 acres of tag alder thickets, spruce and fir swamps, and sandy loam filled 15-year-old white, red, and jack pine regeneration. To say that this parcel was “thick” was an understatement. I have to smile when my southern MI habitat management brothers suggest that, “It can’t be too thick”! [...]

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Advanced Whitetail Habitat Design: Doe Bedding and Buck Bedding

January 19, 2012

Please visit www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com The beauty of getting to hunt a few states, and walk dozens of whitetail parcels over several states each year is that I get to see patterns. Certain patterns of feeding, rutting, traveling, staging and bedding are repeated over and over again no matter what the state, and what the habitat type. [...]

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Using Hunter Movements to Shoot Big Bucks on Public Land

January 19, 2012

*www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com *2011 MI Public Land I’d like to teach you how to take advantage of a public land deer drive! You don’t drive deer? Well, neither do I. And in many public land locations, most hunters don’t drive either…at least knowingly. Here is a list of public land deer drives that you can take advantage [...]

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This small buck may have been the one we kicked up. Hopefully he stays in the area and we can see him again next season.

Whitetail Weekly, Michigan Late Season Hunt – The Final Sunset

January 6, 2012

Way back on October 1st I climbed a tree in the pre-dawn darkness and was all settled in well before the first sunrise of the season got underway. There is always something really exciting about that first sit of the year. All the waiting is over and it’s finally hunting season, all the anticipation of [...]

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