October 11, 2006

Deer Stands, Drives And Still Hunting

Filed under: Hunting - Deer — Copyright©2006 Cliff Keeler Cliff Keeler @ 10:23 pm

When sixteen and knowing little or nothing about deer hunting (nor deer habits for that matter), I first stalked whitetails in 1955 along Carroll County Missouri’s Grand River shoreline. The only weapon I could finance then was a straight-limb bamboo bow armed with hickory shafts purchased through Montgomery Ward’s catalogue.
With that same bow five years […]

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Private: Record Book “Shedding” Light On Phantom Whitetails

Filed under: Hunting - Deer — Copyright©2006 Cliff Keeler Cliff Keeler @ 9:08 pm

Some record shed-finds are the only physical evidence of the animals they came from. The animals themselves were never reported seen by human eyes. Even when they were found by farmers who, for all their lives, had lived on and worked the ground that grew them.
In Minnesota, a farmer photographed a non-typical whitetail buck at […]

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The Whitetail Rut Is A Complicated Event

Filed under: Hunting - Deer — Copyright©2006 Cliff Keeler Cliff Keeler @ 1:12 pm

Jerry Martin, Director of Bass Pro’s Professional Hunting Team, with a 140+ class Pope & Young trophy whitetail. Martin took the record book deer in south Missouri.
Earth’s four seasons occur, in part, because it wobbles slightly on its axis. That influence on seasonal weather affected human cultures ranging from Stonehenge, to the Olmec and Maya […]

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