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Contents: Snow Blind (When the snow starts falling and the wind starts howling, it’s sometimes best to have someone hunting nearby…just to keep you motivated to stick it out and hunt hard); Deer Research Cedar Swamps: Critical Condition (Northern white cedar swamps have been crucial to Great Lakes deer herds for as long as whitetails have lived there. These swamps, however, are in serious jeopardy. Can we help save them for deer hunting’s future generations?); Deer Hunting History A Heavenly Deer Camp (To Frank Boykin, his Alabama hunting land was a deer hunter’s dream. However, not everyone believed his claims…until they experienced it for themselves); Deer Hunter Behavior Is Deer Hunting Too Rulified? (The author examines the consequences of what happens when whitetail hunters adopt too many self-imposed regulations at their camps, leases and hunting clubs); Why Iowa Remains Buck Central (In this age of “antler mania”, how can one state keep turning out eye-popping bucks? The author answers this question and more in this, the first of a two-part series); The Real Buckless Yooper (It might have taken Dave Menominee 19 seasons to fill his first buck tag, but it had little to do with how he hunted) Cover Stories – Who Takes The Biggest Bucks? (Bow-hunters get first crack at the herd each year, but do they really kill a lion’s share of the biggest bucks?); A Shed-Hunter’s Best Friend (Almost any dog that stays close to you in the woods can be trained to find shed antlers. Here’s how you can teach your dog to become your shed-hunting partner); When & Why To Hunt All Day (The author explains why all-day and midday hunts are often the best bets for outsmarting mature bucks on public lands and other heavily pressured areas); The Demon Called Antlers (Whether you look at athletics, business or deer hunting, the story is the same. Ego, greed or just the thought of “maybe I can do it” sometimes leads individuals down the wrong path and causes them to do the wrong thing); Deer Management What Exactly Is A Healthy Herd? (A deer population’s condition is driven by where that herd is relative to the land’s carrying capacity. Learn the factors that affect both); Don’t Curse The Lumberjacks! (Looking to bag the biggest buck of your life? Look no further than abandoned logging areas: The most fertile areas of deer country) Departments – Editor’s Stump; Readers Recoil; Quality Deer; Rue’s Views; Deer Browse; Buck Shots; Candid Whitetails; Holiday Gift Guide; Hunter’s Closet & Where To Go
Issue: March 2006
Condition: Very Good