Category: Hunting

QDMA’s New Website Is Designed to Serve and Inform Deer Hunters


ATHENS, GA (August 16, 2016) – QDMA is pleased to invite deer hunters to visit its newly relaunched website, QDMA.com, which now allows the organization to more efficiently interact with, educate and support its members, volunteers, and all deer hunters.”Whether you need help predicting buck behaviors during the rut, a ticket to your local QDMA banquet, food plot information, or you just want to renew your membership, you’ll find the new site easy to use even on your smartphone,” said QDMA Director of Communications Lindsay Thomas Jr. Read more
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Make a Michigan GEMS stop this fall


This fall, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources encourages hunters to try upland bird hunting at one, or several, GEMS (Grouse Enhanced Management Sites) – which offer a chance to explore a new type of hunt or a new location. Each of the 17 GEMS has miles of hunter walking trails, developed from old logging roads, that wind through thousands of acres of great habitat.”Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula have some of the best grouse and woodcock habitat,” said DNR upland bird biologist Al Stewart. “In Michigan, we have 10 million acres of public hunting land – the size of Massachusetts and New Jersey combined.” Read more
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National Deer Alliance Launches New Website Geared To Informing and Uniting Deer Hunters


FAIRFAX, Va. —The National Deer Alliance (NDA) has recently developed the organization’s first comprehensive website to keep deer hunters informed about deer issues across the country, while also providing important updates on NDA’s work.The new site makes it easier than ever to sign up for a free membership, and is home to the NDA Action Center, which allows deer and hunting advocates to easily contact legislators about matters important to ensuring the future of North America’s most popular big game animal. Additionally, the site will feature a President’s Blog, penned by NDA President and CEO Nick Pinizzotto, and an editorial section that will highlight the latest news in the deer world. Read more
Hunting, Wildlife

Online Video Shows Deer Hunting Strategies: Comparing Past Patterns and Planning


The www.GrowingDeer.tv team shares deer hunting “how to” for finding the bucks they will be hunting this deer season. They’re using past and present trail camera images to predict patterns and develop strategies for hunting. Watch to see the tips and ideas hunters can use to tag their hit list bucks. Then an in-depth look at how to video deer hunts to best capture the hunting adventure. Click here to see this and more! Read more
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MI antlerless deer license applications on sale until Monday

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that the application period for antlerless deer licenses ends Monday, Aug. 15.

Hunters may apply for one license in any open deer management unit (DMU) statewide; a nonrefundable $5 fee is charged at the time of application. Hunters may apply online at E-License, or at any authorized license agent or DNR Customer Service Center.

Drawing results and leftover license availability may be viewed beginning Sept. 1 at mi.gov/deer.

Any leftover antlerless deer licenses not issued in the drawing will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. EDT until license quotas are met.

The 2016 antlerless deer license quotas for each DMU can be found at mi.gov/deer. Please note, DMU 333 has unlimited antlerless licenses that may be purchased without application beginning Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

B&C Shows You How to Score Your Big Game

B&C’s latest book makes it easy to score your whitetail deer… and all the other 37 categories—from walrus to moose!

While the definition of a successful hunt is left to its participants, the Boone and Crockett Club scoring system remains the benchmark for identifying mature big-game animals and healthy big-game populations.

In the Club’s newly revised edition of How to Score North American Big Game, the definitive Boone and Crockett scoring system is explained in detail using simple, straightforward language and more than 100 new color illustrations and diagrams by noted wildlife artist and B&C Official Measurer Chris Lacey. This new edition is spiral bound for durability providing easy, lay-flat reading with a pocket integrated into the back cover for safe keeping of score charts and notes.  In addition the book delivers chapters on the Club’s history and its records-keeping program, as well as an expanded chapter on category boundaries enhanced with detailed, full-color maps from onXmaps.

SPECIAL OFFER! Use promo code SCORE20 when you order online and save 20 percent off the regular retail price of $34.95. Read more

Hunting

Decoy Maintenance

By Jay Anglin

Grab all the tools you’ll need, then line up those busted, leaky and anchorless decoys. They’ll be off of the disabled list in no time. Save the painting for last.
Restore reliability and bring back bling to your blocks with these simple tips
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Delta Waterfowl Issues Special Statement on USFWS Director’s Commendation of Anti-Hunting Group


BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA — On Aug. 4, Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “re-tweeted” a “tweet” from Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the United States supporting the USFWS and Administration’s position on management of refuges in Alaska (See screenshot of Twitter page).In our opinion, the USFWS director should not be issuing commendations to HSUS, the nation’s most ardent anti-hunting group and a group that has worked relentlessly to limit/end hunting, scientific wildlife management and legitimate and well accepted uses of animals and wildlife. Ashe’s action is disrespectful to the millions of hunters and anglers who have been the most dedicated constituency and financial supporter of the USFWS.

What is most ironic about Ashe’s public affirmation of HSUS is that HSUS has made common practice of suing the USFWS and the Department of Interior. Those legal actions have consistently derailed USFWS management authority, cost the agencies untold millions of dollars, consumed precious human capital and stolen resources better spent on conservation of habitat and species. HSUS has not been a stakeholder in USFWS work. HSUS has committed no money, no time, nor advocacy to supporting the USFWS’s conservation mission and mandate. Read more

Animal Rights, Fishing, Hunting

Decoy Tricks for Early Season Waterfowl

With liberal limits and plentiful birds, early season hunts can be memorable. Once hunting pressure takes hold, top waterfowlers stay ahead of the game by employing numerous decoy tricks.

How to stay ahead once the pressure sets in

By Sammy Bruce

September is right around the corner, and skies are filling with waterfowl. And, although early season hunts occasionally involve uneducated birds willing to commit to any spread, rarely are things that easy.

 

It’s incredible how fast ducks and geese get wise to hunting pressure. A true credit to the resilience of nature, these birds often change daily patterns immediately with the first sign of hunting and become reluctant to land anywhere but in the neighborhood park.

 

Hunters can up their odds in a number of ways. Read more

Hunting

Whink Products Co. and Mossy Oak Introduce Laundry Products for Hunters

ELDORA, IA – Whink Products Company is introducing scent-control, laundry products in partnership with Mossy Oak. The new Pre-Soak and Laundry Detergent utilize the most effective cleaning agents and are infused with a state-of-the-art odor neutralizer, making hunters truly undetectable.

The Mossy Oak Pre-Soak, developed to remove tough stains, and Laundry Detergent contain no U.V. brighteners, are unscented, concentrated, designed for use in high efficiency and standard washing machines, and designed to remove odors. Both were formulated by Whink. Read more

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