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Whitetail Deer Mounted on Wall

Post Taxidermy Tips

Showcasing your trophy-winning buck entails more than a quick trip to the taxidermist. If you want your whitetail to last, follow our tips to protect it from dirt and damage. When hanging your trophy, use a Stud-Finder to locate a secure spot that won’t destroy your deer or the wall. Avoid hanging your mount in areas prone to extreme temperatures—mildew becomes an issue in these locations. Polish antlers using a liquid wood cleaner, and clean hair with a Windex-dampened cloth. For more trophy protecting tips, read the full story at SummitStands.com.  

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Venison On a Plate

Costly Mistakes = Bad Tasting Venison

After spending hours hunting for whitetail, you deserve to enjoy high-quality venison with your friends and family. Unfortunately, some hunters routinely make errors, both during and after the hunt, that result in bad tasting venison. Luckily for you, we’ve got advice for every step of the process. While on the hunt, take accurate shots to prevent stomach content and entrails from spoiling meat. Remember: when field-dressing the deer, meat must cool quickly or internal bleeding and bacteria will give venison a foul taste. Want to avoid other meat-ruining mistakes? We’ve got five additional tips to ensure you get great tasting venison. For the full story, visit SummitStands.com

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Food Plot Maintenance

Winter Food Plot Maintenance

Increase your shot opportunities by bringing the big bucks to your property. Maintaining your food plot during the winter encourages deer to stay in your yard year-round. Grow a variety of plants that thrive during cold months, and setup feeding stations away from plots to prevent deer from overgrazing. Monitor plots with game cameras to track deer activity, and use feed-release timers to keep raccoons and turkeys from stealing food. For more advice on maintaining your winter food plot, read the full story at MoultrieFeeders.com.

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Two Whitetail Deer

7 Secrets For Yearlong Success

Don’t limit your deer hunting strategies to the regular season. Plan for year-round success by making your property an oasis for hard-to-find bucks. During the hot summer months, thirsty deer seek water and will keep returning to your property, if you provide it for them. Leave overgrown shrubbery alone—it’s the perfect sanctuary for deer during periods of hunting pressure. Plant a variety of greens and hang stands in multiple locations, and you’ll soon tag trophy-worthy bucks that make your buddies envious. For more hunting secrets, read the full story at SummitStands.com

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Man with Trophy Whitetail Buck

Pre Taxidermy Tips For A Great Trophy

The following precautionary steps will help you get your trophy from the field to the wall in perfectly mint condition. Step 1: Don't go old school and cut your trophy buck's throat after the shot to let it "bleed out," because this move can potentially ruin your mount. A non-beating heart is not pumping any blood, which means the animal has already bled out.

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Man in Woods With Deer Pack

Deer Pack Essentials

When going head-to-head with whitetails, you better make sure you’ve packed the right gear and equipment. Here is a complete checklist of the items you’ll need this season.

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Man Hanging Deer Scents on Tree

Making Sense Of Deer Scents

Utilize this whitetail scent-application guide to generate more shot opportunities and maximize your overall success in-the-field this season. Mature whitetail bucks rely heavily on their noses in almost every aspect of daily life. A strong sense of smell enables these heavy-racked titans to detect possible danger, find available food sources and interact with other whitetails throughout the entire year.

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Man and Harvested Whitetail Deer

Early Season Deer Secrets From The Experts

Want to tag more trophy-worthy deer? Start your hunt during the early season with strategies from expert hunters. Strategy #1: Focus on food and water sources—the sweltering 90-degree weather draws deer to ponds with nearby bean fields. Strategy #2: Locate bucks’ trails, and set up stands to intercept them on their way to feeding areas. Strategy #3: Hunt near trails leading out of thickly covered woods—deer seek sanctuary in these locations. For more early season hunting strategies, read the full story at MoultrieFeeders.com.

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After Rut

Seven Ways To Be A Better Deer Hunter

Late-season may be the best time to shoot a big whitetail buck, especially during harsh weather. Chris Parrish, a Knight & Hale and Code Blue Ultimate Hunting Team pro staffer, says that bucks will bed close to food sources after the rut, and frigid temperatures keep them feeding every four or so hours. This is the time to locate a trail from a food source toward bedding areas, and set up so the wind carries the hunters scent away from the trail.

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Odor Free

Give Big Bucks the Total Package

Throughout the hunting season one of the most important factors is to be invisible. Insure you are odor free from your body to your clothes. Make sure you wash all your hunting clothes in an Advanced Formulation Laundry Detergent. You can either use the unscented, or fresh earth while removing all odors and adding an earth scent. After washing store your clothes in a sealable container to keep odors out.

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