Deer Hunting

Deer Hunting

Opening-day success

October 4, 2012 Ricky Aucoin

At the age of 54, I still have trouble sleeping the night before the opening day of bow season. I tossed and turned, and was ready to go before the alarm clock went off at 3:55 a.m.[…]

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Going coastal: Up your odds of deer-hunting in the marshes

October 1, 2012 John Flores

The suspicious speck of white flickered some 200 yards away, resembling what might have been simply a bird flying or the cotton-like puff from the head of a cattail bursting its contents in the wind.

But, when hunting deer in the marsh, nothing is left to chance — where coastal deer are concerned, more often than not it’s simply “now you see em, now you don’t.”

The suspicious white-colored flicker needed to be thoroughly checked out, and not simply become a passing thought that would leave me wondering on the boat ride to the landing.

Picking up my binoculars, I studied the white speck. It was still moving and, low and behold, the white turned out to be a deer’s ear.[…]

Deer Hunting

Moreland’s Desirable Dozen

October 1, 2012 David Moreland

As previously mentioned, deer eat a large variety of plant species but there are a few that deer really prefer in the state’s forest. The following is a list of 12 woody species that I believe the deer manager should key on in the management program.[…]