As spring inches closer, a lot of folks are pulling their fishing gear together and prepping for the coming turkey season. But some of us never stop thinking about whitetails and are already working ...

Given how small these plots are, my vision is that would be the reason deer hunters would use them,” says Adams, who isn’t relying on the little plot to produce much tonnage (though Williams is more ...

Early fall is a busy time for deer hunters. Stands need repair. Feeders need filling. Camps need cleaning. Wasps need killing And roads need mowing. We must not forget about those food plots, either.

Deer hunting is a labor of love. For hardcore whitetail junkies, the work usually begins long before the dawn of another opening day. The clock is ticking. Texas’ Archery Only and Managed Lands Deer ...

A deer eats a plant you don’t recognize. Then, another, and another, and it “selects” these over your food plot or corn pile. On another hunt, a buck hits several obscure native species, and ...

If you’ve ever watched a whitetail deer browse, you’ve seen them nonchalantly pick specific plants to devour while ignoring others. A fancy way of describing that behavior is to say that deer are ...

Trial and error can be a costly and sweaty proposition when managing food plots for deer. At our hunt club, we've learned the hard way that it takes much more than ...

BRAINERD — "Oh, so you plant food plots for deer," said a man I met at a sporting goods store. His comment held overtones of resentment. I was not offended; I respect his particular hunting methods, ...

Hunters who took the time to plant food plots earlier in the fall should be rewarded this season, according to former deer study leader David Moreland. (Todd Masson) If you're a hunter who likes to ...

I see the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wants to ban feeding deer because of the hunting-over-bait problem ("Minnesota DNR wants fall ban on deer feeding," Feb. 13). Let me suggest another ...

Chris Niskanen's article in the Nov. 27 Brainerd Dispatch regarding illegal deer baiting correctly identified the probable reasons Minnesota hunters bait deer. However, I suggest a broader issue was ...