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8 Trail Camera Tips That’ll Produce Better Results
The author's nephew Jake Davenport got this outstanding drop-tine buck on film on three separate occasions, but he had to move the camera to a new spot each time to do so. The author thinks this buck...
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Scouting Whitetails With Your GPS
The author marks the location of a rub on his handheld GPS. After he transfers the locations of rubs, scrapes and other deer sign he has marked on his GPS to a regular topo map, that information often...
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Whitetail Scouting From Afar
Online maps and property tax information can narrow your search for land holding mature bucks, enabling you to minimize your physical intrusions for shed hunting and hanging stands. The pressure of...
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In-Season Scouting For Whitetails
By combining your in-season scouting efforts with a willingness to remain mobile, you can maximize the odds of tagging a mature buck. Photo by Judd Cooney/windigoimages.com. The time you invest in...
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Pro Tips For Using a Wireless Trail Camera
The author's son, Ryan, shows off the trophy whitetail he took in 2009. Ryan was able to monitor the buck without intruding in the area thanks to photos from a wireless trail camera. Photos courtesy of...
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Whitetail Scouting Tips
As this fall progresses and transitions into winter, we are going to closely evaluate what it means to be a devoted whitetail hunter 365 days a year and what common thread binds us all together in our...
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Building A Recon Network For Whitetail Hunting
There seems to be one trait common to all the consistently successful hunters I personally know. Simply put, that trait is they work hard at it, all the time. For these hunters, the end of hunting...
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Tips for Getting the Most Out Of Your Trail Cameras
Understanding the technical features of your trail camera — including the trigger options, type of flash, range and battery life — can increase your success in patterning the deer on your property....
View ArticleWeird Whitetail Antler Debris
More than a few whitetail bucks have gotten unusual things stuck in their racks. Here’s a look at some of the more notable items we’ve stumbled across. Plays videos on our IMO Mags website
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8 Whitetail Scouting Blunders To Avoid
Scouting is a household term for a “Whitetail 365” type of hunter. But what some don’t realize is that with our ambition and passion for whitetail scouting comes a bit of risk. Some people make common...
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The Whitetail Addict’s Guide To Postseason Scouting
He’s the guy who arrives at the country general store every year, pulling his truck up to the curb as onlookers peer into the bed. Like clockwork each fall, he somehow pulls a big one out of the swamp...
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Your Guide To Using Trail Cameras in the Offseason
I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were two bucks in the photo and they were both giants. Long, stout beams. Curved and towering tines. Stickers, splits and inside points. The antlers rose from their...
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How to Utilize Optics for Whitetail Scouting
Just over four centuries ago, Galileo first peered into the heavens through glass lenses. When he did, his inquisitive eyes began to pick out features never before seen by man: details of lunar...
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3 Essential Keys to Hunting Mature Bucks With Success
What is the key to harvesting mature bucks consistently? How do some hunters manage to put giant bone on the ground each season while others struggle to catch a glimpse of these elusive creatures? Deer...
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What to Look for During Summer Whitetail Scouting
We’ve all seen them. The boys of summer, bachelor groups of whitetail bucks basking in the summer heat and gorging on the lush greens of July and August. Same Ohio giant moving in July, within the hour...
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Old-Fashioned Deer Hunting
Learning to locate and read rubs can help you find October hotspots. It felt as though I were chasing ghosts. Each morning I’d sit on stand and watch ruffed grouse sneak around, songbirds flit through...
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5 Crazy Places to Find a Big Buck
The author, Mark Kayser, admires a buck taken near the ranch house mentioned in the article. Dogs barking, kids screaming and horses whinnying isn’t the silence you envision in the whitetail woods. My...
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The Advantages of a Wireless Trail Camera
Heading into fall, I had saved up 30 vacation days, all ear-marked to hunt one particular buck. As luck would have it, that specific deer passed within 25 steps of my stand on the opening day of the...
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What Makes a Good Funnel or Pinch Point?
The advent of Google Earth was a life changer for me. In the late 1990’s, when Google Earth first became available, the resolution was poor and the aerial photography was all in black and white. But...
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To Hunt in the Pines, You Need This Specific Approach
The 2015 deer season had been long. Really long. As I sat in a stand overlooking a quarter-acre food plot the first week of December, almost three full months of open season lay behind me. Western...
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