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Contents: How May I Direct Your Call? (When your’re a sucker for a good deer tale, it seems as though everyone wants to call you up and share their success story); Tips For Hunting Surplus Does (Hunting does can be an exciting, rewarding and biologically sound part of modern deer hunting. The author offers tips that will help you put more meat in your freezer this fall); Deer Research Do Deer Hunters Have A Future? (Scientific studies have shown that most hunters do not consider themselves as “management tools”. To most hunters, deer hunting is not an obligation to hold deer numbers in check); Deer Management How Deer Exclosures Open Eyes (Whether natural or man-made, small off-limits areas can reveal changes in the quantity and quality of natural forage in your area); First Snow (For those graced to live and hunt in snow country, this single event stirs up as much excitement as opening day of deer season); Deer Browse Deer Baiting Helps Bear Populations (A new study shows a direct link between deer baiting activity and black bear densities); Leonard Lee Rue: We Salute You! (It’s time to tip our camouflaged caps to the living legend whose been D&DH‘s “answer man” for nearly three decades) Cover Stories – Shoulder The Load (Take your gun-hunting prowess to a new level by locating a deer’s “killing bone”. With this knowledge, and a little practice, you’ll never have to follow another long blood trail); Reality Bucks (Antler scores get tossed around so freely nowadays that many hunters might find themselves holding out for a buck they’ll never see. What’s a realistic buck for your area?); 6 Muzzleloading Mistakes To Avoid (Despite technology, whitetail hunting with a front-stuffer remains worlds apart from going afield with a centerfire rifle); How To Prevent Tree-Stand Mishaps (From suspension trauma to the inherent hazard of permanent tree stands, the author provides advanced insights that will help you hunt safely from high places this fall); Are You Raising Bucks You Can’t Hunt? (If the formula to growing mature whitetails is as simple as providing them food, cover and time, why aren’t we all taking more and bigger bucks year after year?); How Feral Hogs Affect Whitetails (Our Southern field editor explains how and why deer and deer hunters sometimes have to learn to live with the reality of out-of-control feral hog populations) Departments – Editor’s Stump; Readers Recoil; Rue’s Views; Buck Shots; Candid Whitetails; Quality Deer; Deer Browse; New Gear; Hunter’s Closet & Where To Go
Issue: January 2006
Condition: Very Good