This is an incredibly important topic. If you shoot a deer and can’t find it that’s a problem! Let’s go over some useful information and resources to help in the event it happens to you. Here's an interview with Shane Simpson who is part of the United Blood Trackers Association. Here we'll...
Deer School Course
Chapter 10 - Field Care and Deer Processing
One of the biggest challenges with hunting public land is often retrieving and processing deer, especially when hunting remote areas. In this section we'll cover the following questions. 1) How do you quarter a deer out? 2) At what point does meat begin to spoil and how do you prevent...
Chapter 4 - Deer Behavior: Deer Movements
CHAPTER 4: PAGE 1 - DEER MOVEMENT It’s important to distinguish how bucks and does behave throughout each phase of the season. There's a tremendous amount of information on this topic but for the purposes of this course we'll focus on various behaviors and how they impact us as hunters. The...
Chapter 4 - Deer Behavior: Deer Senses
CHAPTER 4: PAGE 2 - DEER SENSES INTRODUCTION Deer have one primary goal - to survive. To do so they use their senses to detect danger and avoid predators. Of those senses, arguably the most important is their sense of smell. A big part of woodsmanship is knowing how and when...