suburban hunting Tag Archive

The Next Generation of Hunters

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I did not grow up with Howard Hill or Fred Bear adventure stories. To be honest, I didn’t know who they were until I was 14 years old and even then, it was because of Ted...

5 Ways to Recover Your Hunting Season

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It is the end of November and despite having a strong preseason of scouting and planning, I have yet to go hunting. This is the reality for hunters many hunters with a full time...

Hunting Walking Trails Is a Special Advantage for the Urban Hunter

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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...

Big Bucks and The Enigma of Pattern Changes

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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...

3 Suburban Hunting Mistakes No One Can Afford to Make

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An old sign can be a good sign. Like any deer, suburban deer live as habitual lives as possible. Unlike other deer, suburban deer are subject to a wide array of unpredictable...

The Science of Fear: Flight Distances

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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...

Why I Am an Urban Hunter—Finding the Outdoors

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I don’t normally write articles fueled by negative emotions. However, as a representative of both suburban hunting culture and as an urban hunter myself, I think it’s...

Breaking the Suburban Buck Code

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It’s late winter and many of us in the northeast are deep into what has become one of the most severe winters we’ve ever seen. The snow is measured in feet, for inches...

Rural Whitetails with Suburban Deer Behavior

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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,...

3 Ways to Out-Bait Other Hunters

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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...