8 Worthy New Year’s Resolutions for Deer Hunters

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A new year always brings with it a mix of emotions for me. I’m saddened because it marks the final days of Georgia’s deer season, but at the same time I love the feeling of a fresh start — the opportunity to reboot and strive to do things a little better than you did the …

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Hunt Elk to Kill More Whitetails

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No you didn’t click on the wrong website – this is the Quality Deer Management Association! We’re still talking about deer hunting, so don’t leave this page yet. In hunting, much like other things in life, sometimes having a fresh perspective is beneficial. Whether that entails hunting a new location or completely different species, learning …

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Deer Movement is a Mystery. Stop Trying to Solve It.

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7 antlered bucks at one time. That’s what I was watching on the afternoon of November 17, 2018. One by one they entered a large food plot from different directions, all of them yearlings to 3½-year-olds, and fed and sparred with each other for almost an hour as I watched, fascinated. I’ve seen that many …

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What Scientists Learned that Changed How They Hunt Mature Bucks

| By Dr. Jacob Haus, Dr. Jacob Bowman and Joe Rogerson
As professional white-tailed deer biologists, we are constantly prodded by friends and family for some type of insider information that could help improve their odds of encountering mature deer. It is always a tough question to answer, and it wasn’t until we began a collaborative research project between the University of Delaware and the Delaware …

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