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Learning (or remembering) how to field dress a deer can feel overwhelming, but if you have a sharp knife and a reasonably strong stomach, you’ll be able to figure it out. If you manage to do so ...
Having eyes more to the side of their head also affords deer a wider field of view. Old timers used to say that deer don’t look up. They most certainly do, especially if their blurry peripheral ...
Along the way, he spotted a deer in a field and a house nearby. He didn't see any "no trespassing" signs and assumed he was on the private land of a family with extensive land holdings who had ...
Deer are becoming a growing problem for agriculture in the South. They eat up valuable crops and there's little farmers can do to keep them out their fields. Financially, farmers are dealing with ...
As luck would have it, five or six deer were already there feeding in the open field not 50 yards from my stand. Of course, the distant crew immediately bounded away at my approach, their white ...
In crop fields, deer can graze, trample and bed. Depending on your crop’s stage, this can have economic consequences. “Deer will feed on immature corn tassel tissue in the whorl during mid- to ...
A hunter who drops a deer – giving it ample time to die and then tracking it down – becomes at once a field surgeon, of sorts. That’s because the organs need to be carefully removed as soon ...
If you plan to hang your deer skin-on for a while, it’s better to remove the rectum and urethra in the field. One of my buddies, Steve, whom I surveyed, spent years butchering deer ...