Whitetail Deer Hunting Tips

Whitetail deer hunting tips often result in a hunter earning bragging rights if he shoots a larger buck. 

Every hunter secretly wishes he or she could display a trophy buck at some time during their hunting career. It's not a matter of wanting to gloat, but just a desire to succeed.

Hunting is a complicated sport because so many factors can affect the likelihood of bagging a big whitetail buck that would make any hunter proud.

Hunting lands around the country have varying terrains, but whitetail deer habits are quite similar no matter where you live. That means whitetail hunting tips for the northeast can be just as useful for the south. Of course there are also tips that are regionally oriented, so doing specific research on your area is important. To me hunting where I hunt on 300 acres of hardwords forest is a lot different than hunting farm land with crops in the area.The deer may act the same, but the hunting techniques and laws can be quite different.

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Hunters love to share their tips with other hunters. Usually sports people like to keep some secrets, but hunters know that finding the trophy bucks requires a combination of great tips and skill.

For example, you know there are certain spots on the deer which make them most vulnerable when shot, such as the lung and heart area, but placing the shot on one of those spots is a whole different matter. That's why there are so many tips related to shot placement available for both gun and bow hunting.

Go Ahead and Ask

Tips for hunting white-tail deer cover a wide gamut of topics. There are tips on attracting and patterning bucks. You can learn how to field dress a deer, recognize obvious and non-obvious deer signs, and where to place your hunting stand. You can read important tips about mapping trophy bucks, scouting for the best hunting areas before the season starts and how to differentiate between a yearling buck and a doe.

In fact, you can go back to the basics and get important tips about deer behavior or how to assist with a whitetail deer management program through selective hunting.

So go ahead and ask for some whitetail deer hunting tips. But be prepared, because hunters just love to share their not-so-well kept secrets.

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Pa. rifle deer season opening, a Monday tradition for over 50 years, moves to a new day

The board gave preliminary approval to the measure in January but solidified it with a 5-3 vote on Tuesday.

Rifle season for hunting deer in Pennsylvania has kicked off the Monday after Thanksgiving since 1963.

“Every day we create a new tradition," Region 8 commission Brian Hoover said. "Traditions are based on things we’ve done on the past. I think people will adapt as we have seen in the past to regulation changes and people will make new traditions.”

Supporters of the change believe a Saturday opener could bring back lapsed hunters that struggle to find time to hunt as well as helping high school and college hunters that do not get the day off from school for opening day.

“My focus has always been the youth,” Region 5 commissioner Charles Fox said. “When it came down to make the decision, that’s what tipped the scale for me. For me, it’s worth the risk.”

Opponents of the change believe moving the opening day will interfere with hunting camp traditions and complicate travel during the Thanksgiving weekend.

Region 6 Commissioner Michael Mitrick voted for the Saturday opener back in January, but changed his mind when the final vote came around, citing new data and public reaction. 

“We are really concerned about retaining hunters, and the Saturday opener sounded like a great idea," Mitrick said. "Then we did the internal poll and some numbers showed that the likelihood of lapsed hunter buying a license again was pretty low. That’s one of the reasons I backed away from it.”

Mitrick's region includes Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Junata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder and York counties.

He added that he hopes the decision doesn't come with an overwhelming level of backlash. 

“I got approximately 1,000 emails and a big majority of them were heavily against the Saturday opener," Mitrick said. "Right now, we don’t need to have animosity towards the Game Commission. I hate to antagonize those people for whatever gain we might get from this.”

The change will take place immediately for the 2019 deer season.