Shooting editor John B. Snow explains why a .300 Win Mag won't fix all your problems, and more wisdom to keep in mind this season.

Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio.

Hosted by editor in chief Alex Robinson.

Produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.

Guest is shooting editor John B. Snow

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You don't have to sit in a treestand all fall. Hunting editor Andrew McKean has killed deer all over the continent. Most of the time, it was with two feet planted firmly on the ground. Here's how, and why, he chooses to hunt deer on their level.

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Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio.

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Produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.

Guest is hunting editor Andrew McKean.

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Every year our executive editor takes someone from a non-hunting family on their first deer hunt with the NDA's Field to Fork program. Here's what she's learned from those experiences, and what new deer hunters have to say about the experience.

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Hunter Jared Mills shares his tips for making the most of your opportunity when a big buck finally comes into range.

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Don’t just scroll through your trail cam pictures. Instead, apply these strategies from outdoor writer Josh Honeycutt and Dr. James Johnson, both of whom have extensive experience deploying trail cams to pattern whitetails.

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At this point in the deer season, all serious whitetail hunters have two important questions to answer: When will that target buck move? And where will he go? To answer these questions, we can use recent and historic trail camera data plus traditional woodsmanship skills and good old hunter’s intuition. But it also helps to have an understanding of the bigger picture. And for that, you can’t beat GPS collar data from Dr. Bronson Strickland. Strickland is a co-director of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab, and a certified wildlife biologist. Through the Deer Lab, he conducts research that’s important for deer science but also has management and hunting implications. 

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In this first episode of our six-part series, we're interviewing expert deer hunters from all around the country. Today we're talking to Brett Joy, a hunter with Just Hunt Club, about combining modern and vintage tactics to target big-woods deer.

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folks have been putting big animals down for over a hundred years with cartridges that would have social media commenters’ thumbs worked into a frenzy. They did it without a second thought — maybe because nobody ever told them they couldn’t.

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Produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.

Guest is staff writer Tyler Freel.

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If you have a love-hate relationship with your trail cameras, you're not alone. That's why we sat down with Rich Howell, the founder of Trailcampro.com to unravel some of the biggest issues with setting, troubleshooting, and paying for trail cams.

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Every September, trout guides and amateurs alike descend on the Snake River to compete in a charity event. It’s based around a simple yet formidable question: What if you only had one fly?

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Reported by news editor Dac Collins.

Produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.

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