We have all heard the saying “history repeats itself.” But what does this have to do with hunting big bucks, especially if we have ours in the bag? Once we have our...
I have heard plenty of hunters complain about hunting in areas with lots of active walking trails. They find it discouraging to have the deer they’ve followed run off...
Many of us are looking at our trail camera pictures this late September and early October and scratching our heads. What’s with all the abrupt big buck pattern changes? The...
“Establishing and controlling alert distances is one of the most effective skills of the ‘Modern Still Hunter.” — The Urban Deer Complex The theory of fluid motion is an...
Understanding flight distances can be a tough. “For several years after moving to Southern New England I can remember calling my father up in Maine and laughing on the phone...
The Rut Mainstream hunting media is full of factually sound and well-researched knowledge on whitetail behavior, like a set standard of a buck’s core area. For instance, the...
Urban Camouflage — what does that mean to a whitetail deer? To understand urban camouflage we must think outside the box here as we are not talking in reference to the...
The Science of Fear series focuses on how whitetails become conditioned to fear humans. The way deer respond to the same stimuli over different locations varies widely, even...
Conditioning Rural Whitetails At the very core of the theories laid out in Urban Deer Complex 2.0 is the science behind conditioned animal behavior. Not just urban deer behavior,...
Do you bait deer? With more and more states allowing the use of bait, it makes the ability to do so effectively more difficult each year as deer become more conditioned to this...
ABOUT US
The Urban Deer Complex was found in 2014 after the publication of the first book by A.J. DeRosa. It grew to be the number one selling book on deer hunting on Amazon for two years straight when it then sold out. Now 2018, Northwoods Collective brings the Urban Deer Complex back to life!