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 Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Big Buck Alert!
Posted by DDH Staff
Our friend Adam Wogsland of Iola, Wis., brought this dandy 4.5-year-old buck to our offices yesterday. He arrowed the 150-inch 10-pointer the previous evening while hunting a patch of oak woods. "I got set up in my tree stand around 5:15 p.m.," Adam said. "At 5:30, I grunted three long grunts followed by a series of three short grunts. Around 5:50 p.m., he came down a trail behind me, and I was able to stop him at about 6 yards and made a solid double lung shot. He went around 75 yards and piled up. I was about 30 yards off of a third-crop hayfield and 20 yards from a corn field. He was traveling through an area that splits the two fields and has a couple of crab apple trees and a bunch of sumac trees." Congrats to Adam on one mighty fine early season whitetail! Note: Adam’s Cuddeback photo is of the same buck from last year. The photos below show a right-side shed found earlier this year and gives you a good idea of how much larger this year's antler was by comparison.   
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:33:45 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Huge Sioux Falls Buck
Posted by DDH Staff
Here’s a huge buck that is reportedly living within the city limits safe zone of Sioux Falls, SD. Former D&DH associate editor Andrew Johnson lives in nearby Dell Rapids and reports hearing rumors about the big non-typical. “I wouldn’t doubt it,” Johnson said. “The biggest bucks in the state are within the city limits or in the park area between Brandon and Sioux Falls.” Municipalities are some of the best big buck hideouts in the country. If you can score permission on nearby hunting land, you can have a real shot at a trophy when the bucks begin to chase does in November.
Monday, September 22, 2008 9:08:49 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Dan's Report for 9/21
Posted by DDH Staff
Our bow season is already a week old here in Wisconsin, and it has been very slow. Our temperatures have been consistently in the mid- to upper 70s, and night-time lows have only dipped into the 50s. My deer sightings on stand have been sparse. However, I did manage to take the early season edge off by harvesting a plump 2.5-year-old doe on Saturday. This is the first year I have shot an expandable broadhead in more than six years. On this hunt, I am glad I did. I was using a 2-blade Rage that I had honed its blades to a razor-sharp edge before the hunt. The doe only went 80 yards before expiring ... testament to the sharp broadhead and its 2+ inch cutting diameter. Dan Schmidt, D&DH Editor
Monday, September 22, 2008 2:23:00 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Check Out These 5 Slammer Bucks!
Posted by DDH Staff
Jon Lacorte of Nikon Optics, second from left, was part of a hunting crew that enjoyed an incredible week of bow-hunting in western Kentucky last week. The camp went five-for-five on Pope-and-Young-class bucks during their early season hunt.  
Monday, September 22, 2008 2:13:24 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Early Season Success!
Posted by DDH Staff
D&DH Publisher Brad Rucks made quick work of "earning" his buck tag this fall by harvesting this beautiful 4-year-old doe on opening day of Wisconsin's bow season. Brad shot the doe while hunting from a double-ladder stand with his 8-year-old son Noah along for the experience. Brad was using a 100-grain Hell-Razor, a new cut-on-contact broadhead from New Archery Products. 
Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:49:24 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Weird Photo From Trail Camera
Posted by DDH Staff
I have seen some weird photos come across my desk over the years, but this one ranks up there with the best, or should I say "oddest," of them. The photo was captured by a trail camera set out by faithful D&DH reader Greg Mariani. Greg writes, "We have been getting this same doe rooming our property in central Wisconsin since December 2007. Can you by looking at the photos let us know what you think the deer may have? Could it be just a parasite or mange?" We are not 100 percent positive on this one, but it does appear that the doe has some type of mange. This is rare with whitetails, but cases have been documented sporadically across deer country. Parasite infestation can also cause these types of hair loss and skin lesions. In many cases, the parasites are transferred at baiting and feeding stations. Dan Schmidt, D&DH Editor    
Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:37:49 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Young Bow-Hunter Scores
Posted by DDH Staff
Here is our feel-good story for today. Forrest Haunschild, 12, bagged his first deer while bow-hunting on Saturday. He took the big doe shortly after daylight while hunting a small strip of woods that borders a 3,000-acre cattail marsh in east-central Wisconsin. Forrest was shooting a BowTech Raptor set at 55 pounds, and was using a Carbon Express arrow tipped with a 75-grain Muzzy MX-3. 
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:49:52 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Look At This Buck!
Posted by DDH Staff
Loyal D&DH reader Howard Helgenberg of east-central Missouri sent us this photo of a dandy buck he captured on a scouting camera. We're not sure what's got us more excited about this deer: the mass of its antlers, the velvet or those drop-tines. 
Monday, September 15, 2008 9:05:12 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Ohio to Phase Out Deer Check Stations
Posted by DDH Staff
The Ohio Division of Wildlife says it will phase out deer registration stations, or "check stations" as Ohioans call them, by 2010. Today's story revealed that successful hunters will not only ultimately buy all licenses online in the state -- they'll register their deer by phone. That means Ohio will be joining many other states that do not use check stations. While phone-in or online registation no doubt helps agencies meet tight budgets, questions remain as to how accurate this system will be in terms of measuring harvests and population estimates. That, of course, could result in adverse effects later when hunting policies and quotas are set. Posted by Corey Graff, Online Editor
Friday, September 12, 2008 4:45:17 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
CWD Update: Wildlife Officials Kill 50 Deer on Farm
Posted by DDH Staff
Federal wildlife officials kill 50 deer on farm where chronic wasting disease was found
Source: The Grand Rapids Press
State wildlife officials on Wednesday that more than 50 whitetail
deer were killed on the Kent County breeding farm where chronic wasting
disease was found in one of the animals.
Officials are not identifying the owner, nor the location of the
farm, citing confidentiality issues. The deer shot Tuesday evening were
transported to the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health
at Michigan State University for examination.
The deer carcasses will be incinerated after they are tested.
"The owner will not be able to put cervids (deer
and elk) on that property ever again," said Bridget Patrick,
spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Agriculture. State
officials say the mutated protein that causes the disease is difficult
to get rid of once it's in the soil.
Eradicating deer that have come into contact with an infected deer
is standard protocol, officials say. The state quarantined all 558
captive breeding facilities in Michigan on Tuesday for an indefinite
duration, hoping to stop animal movement between facilities until more
is known about the source of the infection.
Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:29:57 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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