For those of you who might be planning on taking a deer hunting trip to Illinois this year may find this information helpful.
The figures below are based on 2007 either-sex permits issued for firearm and archery hunting seasons. Totals include landowner permits, archery, youth (firearm), regular firearm, and muzzleloader seasons.
1) Number of Deer Hunters in […]

staff report by WDNR
Hunters registered a preliminary total of 343,644 deer during Wisconsin’s regular nine-day gun deer season. There was nearly a 6 percent increase in the harvest of antlerless deer over 2006, and a 3.5 percent decline in the buck harvest, which wildlife officials attributed to the Earn-a-Buck rules in place in many deer […]

Just back from the TX Hill Country on a LOW FENCE hunt with Keyhole Outdoors. Our group went 100% on nice mature bucks. I was the odd man out with my bow, but scored on a nice 5 1/2 year old 11-pointer, and all the rifle hunters brought home good ones as well. Click below […]

“The October Lull”
By: Rod Luke
The campfire provided it’s mystique to the end of our first day at deer camp. Its warmth wasn’t needed as the temperature was a balmy 62 degree’s that evening. But, no camp is complete without the spiritual glow of a campfire. It simply provokes the primal spirit of the hunt and […]

By Rod Luke
Since 2001 Dr. Nancy Mathews has dedicated much of her professional and recreational time to understanding the travel and dispersal patterns of the whitetail deer. Dr. Mathews is a Biologist for the University of Wisconsin , in charge of gathering facts about how deer move and disperse across the landscape. The primary goal […]