If you are like most of the whitetail freaks out there, you have started thinking food plots. It happens every year, the spring thaw comes and deer property managers start thinking about what to plant for the deer. Note; I said “for the deer”, not “for the deer hunter.”  Let me explain.

Over the past few years I’ve noticed an increase in the use of fall attractant annual food plot products. Seems like every seed manufacturer has come up with a new whiz-bang seed mix to attract whitetails to a hunting plot and everybody is planting them. The trouble is, some of them are just that, fall attractants. They are planted in late summer to early fall, grow a couple of months, and die. They are one-year wonders; feeding deer just when they need it least. By fall, fawns are grown and weaned, antlers are formed, and the countryside is covered up with foods. [ Read Full Post ]

Washington wildlife officials recently received a $6,000 check from a Montana man only known as "Roy." The man had apparently illegally hunted deer in Washington between 1967 and 1970, and finally his conscience caught up to him.

The man was "burdened with guilt" and called the wildlife agency a few weeks back to explain what he had done so many years ago, according to the Spokesman.

This from the Digital Journal: "Capt. Richard Mann in Yakima told the man that penalties back in the late 1960s were $250; today the same offense is about $2,000. [ Read Full Post ]

Until recently, the field of dedicated dangerous-game rifles was pretty narrow. Classic British doubles have always been in demand, even when they weren’t in production, and their prices were (and are) extremely high. The only other option was a bolt-action, but even the best hand with a bolt rifle couldn’t match the second-shot speed of a double.

On a recent hunt with Namibian PH Cornie Coetzee, I was impressed by the rig he carried—a gun that serves as his last line of defense against elephants, buffalo, leopards, and lions. Part high-tech bolt gun, part tactical rifle, Cornie’s Blaser updates the concept of the dangerous-game gun. [ Read Full Post ]