The LRF 600 is hairsplitting accuracy made simple. An in-view LCD display provides the exact distance to your target from 1- to 600 yards with the tap of a single button, while 4x magnification and bright, crystal-clear optics bring you nose to nose with your next trophy. Its efficient, compact vertical design and weather-resistant housing provide an unparalleled advantage that’s easy to carry – just be prepared to carry something much heavier on the hike back.
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The Explorer Midweight Cargo Pant has 2 large button-flap bellow-style pockets on the side, two deep hand pockets and two rear pockets with button flap closures. The waist is adjustable for a better fit and a drawstring hem allows for snug fit over boots.
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The role of natural habitat is often overlooked by hunters. It shouldn’t be.
Throughout the summer months whitetails consume 6 to 10 pounds of leaves each day from preferred browse species, forbs and agricultural offerings. In some areas of the whitetail’s range its diet can be made up of over 500 natural foods.
Whitetails will go to great lengths to reach preferred browse.
(photo copyright Charles J. Asheimer)
In prime agricultural areas, for instance, a whitetail’s summer diet will still consist of up to 50 percent natural forage. This native deer food or browse, can be easily improved by hunters with a little extra help in the way of added sunlight, less competition from other plants, and even a little fertilizer.
Their ability to utilize such a wide range of food sources is one of the reasons whitetails are adaptable to living in so many different habitats. Whether in remote forests, prairie farmlands, lowland swamps or suburban neighborhoods, whitetails can almost always find the nourishment they require.
I took this photo at the end of June and it illustrates the lengths deer will go to in order to quench their appetite. The photo also illustrates how six-foot-high browse lines are formed in the woods.
— Charlie
Food plots are one of many ways to complement the natural forage in your hunting area and boost the health of the local deer herd. The Getting Started in Food Plots Value Pack is a great place to begin.
If you’re just getting started in food plots, it can be a daunting task. How do you test for the proper soil? Will you have adequate sunlight? What fertilization, minerals, and pH levels are optimal? If a plant lacks any of these key ingredients, it will not give your potential trophy buck the nutrition that he needs for maximum bone development and antler growth. Learn from the experts in this one-of-a-kind collection.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DeerDeerHunting/~3/eEueHcV856Q/dont-forget-natural-deer-foods
Destination Whitetail returns July 3 for its second season on Sportsman Channel with a variety of action-packed shows featuring unique locations, personalities and white-tailed deer hunting.
Destination Whitetail host Lauren Rich with a super Wisconsin buck!
From opening morning in the first whitetail season in America— the sweltering, late July bow season opener in south Florida — to a longtime camp in the cool climate of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, Destination Whitetail viewers will find interesting stories and information about the country’s most popular game animal.
Some of the shows this season feature island hunting at Lake of the Woods in Minnesota, a visit to steamy South Carolina to hunt a buck in velvet, targeting a destructive buck in a hunting preserve, and the photography career of Charles Alsheimer. The shows not only highlight the majestic whitetail, but also local hunters and the flavor of their communities.
Destination Whitetail returns July 3 on the Sportsman Channel, airing Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. EST, and Fridays at 9:30 a.m. EST.
The show is hosted by Lauren Rich, and features Rich along with the editors and staff of Deer & Deer Hunting on the hunts. With bow, gun and crossbows, the staff has decades of combined experience pursuing white-tailed deer throughout the country.
“Destination Whitetail is unlike any other hunting show you’ve ever seen,” said Dan Schmidt, F+W Media Outdoors content director and editor of Deer & Deer Hunting. “It’s not about hunting ‘celebrities.’ Instead, it celebrates the people, places, communities and traditions that make up the fabric of America’s great deer hunting culture.”
Destination Whitetail investigates the people, places and ways to hunt whitetail throughout North America, confirming no two whitetail hunters are the same. In the 43 states with deer populations the habitat varies as greatly as the traditions and methods used to hunt them. Destination Whitetail follows every imaginable type of hunter and weapon, from guns to bows and the use of dogs. Destination Whitetail is truly a unique format that will entertain as well as inform all deer hunters on how we pursue the whitetail across the country.
Be sure to tune in at 8:30 p.m. EST on July 3 for Destination Whitetail!
For more information, visit www.DeerandDeerHunting.com/tv.
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Check out the Destination Whitetail teaser!
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Here’s the fourth in our seven-part series of tests designed to prove or disprove some common conceptions about compound bows. These tests all appeared in the July issue of Field & Stream, but keep reading for more content exclusive to our website.
The Conventional Wisdom
The latter is foolproof in the field; the former, with no fletching contract, is faster and more accurate. This is bowhunting’s .270 vs. the .30/06 debate.
But Wait a Minute
What’s the real speed and accuracy difference?
The Test
Comparing a Whisker Biscuit (WB) to a Trophy Taker Smackdown and a Quality Archery Design UltraRestHD on the same bows, we chronographed and shot them on the range.
The Results
Speed-difference range: 3 to 6 fps. Total average group size for WB, fallaway:
30 Yards: 2.68, 2.55
40 Yards: 3.67, 3.15
60 Yards: 5.29, 5.19
The Conclusion:
Not to speak of. The average difference in accuracy was peanuts. Brantley, a fallaway devotee, shot the WB just as well all the way out to 60. Bestul and I, both WB fans, shot the fallaways better at distance. There’s no denying the speed difference, but it’s slight.
The Inside Story:
This was a fun one, featuring a whole lot of smack talk between Bestul and I, both WB fans, on one side and Brantley and his bow-shop pro Danny Hinton (the barrel-chested Irishman), both fallaway fans, on the other. If you’ve been bowhunting any time at all, you don’t need me to tell you how this argument goes.
But once we shot our groups, each of us had to shut his yapping pie hole. The silence was a little strange. I had to shut mine because although I love the simplicity of the WB, I shot better with the fallaway. At 30 and 40 yards, my average groups were virtually the same. But at 60, I shot the fallaway almost a full inch better at 4.49 inches vs. 5.45. Bestul shot the fallaway better, too, although by a very small margin at all three ranges. Meanwhile Brantley, certain his precious QAD UltraRest would thump the WB at long range, actually shot better with the latter at 60 yards (5.65 vs. 6.32 with the fallaway).
When we averaged up all the groups, the fallaway came out very slightly ahead in terms of accuracy. But, as stated above, the difference was peanuts. We didn’t have room in the print version for Brantley’s full quote on this topic, so here it is: “The WB’s accuracy blew me away, and I actually did have a mechanical failure with the fallaway during my test. I guess I can’t bust on Hurteau and Bestul for using a WB anymore.”
Did you all get that? I have room here to write it again….
Anyway, the speed test was very straightforward. We ran this using both a Velocitip Ballistics System and a chronograph. There’s no doubt, the fallaway gives you a little extra speed, between 3 and 6 fps.
Bottom Line
If you want to squeak every iota of accuracy and speed out of your bow (which is perfectly understandable) use a fallaway. On the other hand, you can bolt on a foolproof WB, knowing that you’re giving up very little. Yes, you’ll have to re-fletch your arrows more often, but you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing your rest virtually can’t fail and that it will hold you arrow while you do Pilates. Most important if you’re a WB fan, you can use this test to beat back your smack-talking fallaway friends who claim a whopping accuracy advantage.
Now you’ll have to excuse me while I go install a fallaway on my long-range bow.
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Early deer seasons will be here before you know it. I’ve already started some pre-season tune-up on both my body and my bow. I’m also working on making some space in the seemingly perpetually full freezer. Luckily, Wild Chef readers keep me inspired with some great venison dishes, including the two featured in this week’s Food Fight.
Sean Corley’s Venison Pinwheels
Attached is my venison and goat cheese pin wheel dinner. The venison was taken this fall and rolled in homemade biscuit dough with goat cheese, and served with a Caesar salad. It was pretty amazing!
Justin Swope’s Thai Venison Salad
This is some backstrap from an 8 point harvested in my backyard ten yards from the garden where the lettuce came from. I grilled it to medium with salt, pepper, and a little sugar. The sauce is a Thai sauce featuring cilantro, basil, and mint from my herb garden along with lime juice, chili paste, fish sauce, soy sauce, and some other flavors.
Keep those great reader-submitted photos coming to fswildchef@gmail.com.
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For the Venison Ribs
-1 rack of venison ribs, at least 8 bones on the rack, or, if unavailable, 8 rib chops
-2 carrots, roughly chopped
-1/2 celery stalk, roughly chopped
-2 white onions, roughly chopped
-6 cloves garlic
-1 jalapeno, split
-2 Tbsp. chile powder
-1 tsp. whole black peppercorns
-12 tsp. dried thyme
-1/2 tsp.ground cinnamon
-1 bay leaf
-1 cup barbecue sauce of your preference (Love recommends Stubb’s)
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Put all the ingredients except the barbecue sauce in a large roasting pan and add enough water to cover the meat. Cover the pan with a tight-fitting lid or aluminum foil; or, even better, both foil and a lid.
2. Place in the oven; cook until very tender (as long as 8 hours).
3. Remove the ribs from the roasting pan and cool in he refrigerator overnight. Discard the cooking liquid.
4. Light a medium-hot fire in your grill. Slice the cooled rack into individual ribs and grill for about 3 minutes per side, or until heated through. Brush on the barbecue sauce and continue to cook, turning frequently until they’re browned but not blackened. Serve with the homemade pickles. Serves 4.
Homemade Pickles
-3 cucumbers, sliced 1/4 inch thick
-2 cups red onion, thinly sliced
-2 cups red bell pepper, thinly sliced
-4 garlic cloves
-4 serrano chiles
Pickling Liquid
-2 cups red wine vinegar
-2 cups water
-1 cup sugar
-2 jalapenos, halved lengthwise
-8 garlic cloves
-1 cinnamon stick
-1/2 tsp. mustard seed
-1/2 tsp. coriander seed
-1 bay leaf
-3 whole cloves
-3 whole black peppercorns
Directions
1. Combine all the pickling liquid ingredients together in a medium saucepan and boil for 3 minutes.
2. Mix the remaining ingredients in a bow and pour the hot liquid over them. Refrigerate, uncovered, for 24 hours.
