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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

We have officially arrived at a transition period on the outdoor sporting calendar. Deer season is out just about everywhere and turkey and fishing seasons are still pretty distant. Shed antler hunting season can be a thing in some areas, but it's still a bit early. What is an outdoorsman to do? Kill a coyote. Or two. Maybe even 20, if you can manage. In an era of hunting where it seems like you have to obtain a PhD to pull the trigger on the proper animal, you really cannot

No hunter enjoys watching the beloved deer hunting season come to an end. Even during those excruciatingly tough seasons that just don't go your way, there is always a sense of disappointment when the season closes out. If you're anything like us, you spend months on end getting ready for the season. Doing anything you can to pass the time until you can get back in the field. As long as the season takes to get here, it leaves us twice as fast. This is the life of a deer hunte

Photo by Wide Open Spaces If you like to educate yourself on all things whitetail deer, there may be no better place to do so than in the pages of QDMA.com. That would be the website of the Quality Deer Management Association. They probably lead the charge when it comes to stewardship and advocacy for deer hunting. As I am sure many of you do, I follow the QDMA Facebook page. They constantly provide valuable and intriguing information for whitetail lovers. One such article ca

Photo by North American Whitetail Breaking news: You can make improvements to your hunting property while on a budget! Yes, you read that correctly. Summer deer and land management projects are not reserved for the wealthy hunting professionals alone. Those of us who wear blue jeans and blue collars can still engage in management practices, and we can do it without massive amounts of money being spent on heavy equipment and products. Believe it or not, we can also achieve sim

If you live anywhere within the massive range of the whitetail deer, there's a great chance that you may lay eyes on a fawn (baby deer) or two during the summer months. May, June, and July represent fawn season when it comes to whitetails. Does have started giving birth to the small, spotted fawns all across the country. There's a great chance that you have already scrolled across a picture or two on social media. The subsequent comment sections were probably loaded with folk

Photo by Jason Mrachina Spring and summer rains are driving across the country, and that trend should continue (hopefully) 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

Photo by Gameandfishmag.com As part of our ongoing spring and summer food plotting series, we figured that covering some basic mistakes made in food plotting would be a good idea. Lord knows that myself and most other food plotters have made the same mistakes, and sometimes more than once. It is far easier to make those mistakes that lead to failure than to stumble upon success in food plotting. You can surely get lucky by tossing seeds out there and having the right combinat