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Summer trail camera pictures featuring monster whitetail bucks have been populating every corner of social media for a few months now. It seems like everyone who owns a trail camera has an interesting picture or two. Providing endless amounts of hope for the season to come. I'm not the guy who enjoys raining on anyone's parade, but let's have a quick conversation about the reality of summer trail camera pictures. This is a conversation that we need to have. Whether it's from

Photo by Realtree/Realtree.com Spring rains are driving across the country, and that trend should continue through the next several months. Everyone knows that as temperatures rise and humidity levels peak, storms pop up. Whether you love a good thunderstorm or despise them, we're here to tell you why you should welcome abundant rainfall. While I am no biologist, scientist, or anything special, I like to live in the real world of truth, logic, and common sense. Even I can dra

Photo by North American Whitetail Pre-rut behavior is just starting to appear on the whitetail deer hunting landscape. A few hunters have observed some light sparring between bucks, rub lines are being touched up, and scrapes are being made. One of these pre-rut behaviors just happens a lot more often than the others during the month of October. That would be the construction and refreshing of scrapes. Bucks are feverishly making and refreshing scrapes as we speak. As the ear

Deer hunting season in America is here, and it is still very young. A solid number of states have yet to kick off their early archery hunting seasons, including the state that I am sitting in right now (Ohio). This is a point in the year when anticipation is high and the book is yet to be written. Dreams run wild in the heads of deer hunting fanatics nationwide. I am certainly no exception. We're all dreaming of that 200" monster stepping out on November 1st. Dreaming a bit m