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Contents: Up In Flames (I’m amazed how many times I see bucks in the woods without immediately picking out their racks. I often blame it on the fact that most bucks I see are small. However, this time I had no excuse. This buck was big. Really big); Up On The Trail Of The Big 8 (Bucks seem to go underground when the pressure is on. Learn how an Iowa husband-and-wife hunting team used patience and hard work to bag an amazing 8-point buck); Felled By Fire Bolts (If the odds of seeing a record-class buck in the wild are low, what are the odds of discovering two of them killed by lightning? Read what a Wisconsin farming community found two weeks before the 2000 archery season opener); QDM On The Farm, Part 4: Are You Shooting Enough Does? (Controlling deer numbers is not rocket science. But it takes knowledge, common sense and a desire to be results-oriented. The author reveals ow landowners can develop strategies to keep deer herds at healthy, acceptable levels); Finding Wounded Deer With Man’s Best Friend (Nothing is more disturbing than wounding a deer and not finding it. Unfortunately, if you hunt long enough, it will happen. Although some hunters have the skills to unravel the most diffucult blood trails, some do not. In these tough instances, nothing is more effective as man’s best friend); Deer Research Are Whitetails More Abundant Than Ever? (Many experts place white-tailed deer numbers in the United States at just under 20 million. Whitetails are now so common that the media often report whitetail densities are at all-time highs. Is this true? Maybe. But maybe not. Learn what two respected deer researchers believe about the continent’s pre-Colonial whitetail population); Deer Behavior Deer + Traffic = Hunting Opportunities (Deer-vehicle accidents are the product of biological, economic and driver-education issues. Until traffic is better regulated, it’s important to reduce deer herds in areas with heavy traffic. Hunters must learn how to use these common situations to promote the benefits of well-regulated hunting); Fredrich “Miller” Gerstaecker: A Legendary Ozark Deerslayer (Learn how a 21-year-old deer hunter embarked on a six-year deer hunting adventure through seven states and one Canadian province. Although he was well prepared for his adventure, he didn’t have the luxuries of modern-day hunters. After all, his hunts took place more than 160 years ago); Deer Browse Honeymoon Ends With Buck Fever (As the author returned with his new bride from a relaxing honeymoon, a large buck crossed the road in front of their car. Learn how this chance late-summer encounter helped him pattern and then kill this buck with spectacular double-drop times); Season Of Anticipation, Part 2: Spring (It will be many months before I set foot in these woods again. Everyday life will absorb the days between now and then, but a quiet corner of my mind will be reserved for old stone fences and towering hemlocks, bubbling brooks and fern-lined meadows) Departments – Editor’s Stump; Readers Recoil; Ted Nugent’s Spirit Of The Wild; Candid Whitetails. Can You Outsmart This Deer?; Rue’s Views; New Gear For 2001; Hunter’s Closet & Where To Go
Issue: March 2001
Condition: Very Good