How Weather Affects Animal Movement
Ask any seasoned hunter for the secret to consistent success, and weather will come up fast.
Late-Season Hunting Tactics
After the rut and under pressure, deer hold near cover and food and elk move into timber and down with snow. Setups, calling less and cold-weather safety, following Outdoor Life and the Alaska Bowhunter Safety Course.
Early-Season Hunting Strategies
Early season means warm weather and game on summer patterns. Scouting and patterning, hunting food and water, calling sparingly, heat safety for you, cooling meat fast, and tree-stand safety, following the Alaska Bowhunter Safety Course, Penn State Extension and Outdoor Life's whitetail and elk writers.
How to Hunt the Rut
What the whitetail rut is and what triggers it, rubs and scrapes as sign-posts, how calling changes from pre-rut to peak to post-rut, where to set up, and when to be at the ready, following Wikipedia, Outdoor Life's whitetail writers and the Alaska Bowhunter Safety Course, with state timing on our rut map.
Understanding Hunting Seasons and Tags
Why seasons and bag limits exist, which rules to look up (seasons, methods, licences, tags, stamps, transport), the federal duck stamp, and planning a hunting year, following the Alaska Bowhunter Safety Course and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Public Land Hunting: A Beginner's Guide
You don't need to own a ranch or know a friendly farmer to be a hunter in America.