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Whitetail Biology

When Bucks Don’t Shed Their Velvet

When Bucks Don’t Shed Their Velvet

On a regular basis, QDMA is asked about bucks with strange antlers that remained in velvet when they shouldn’t have. Most...

Quality Deer Management

QDM vs. Trophy and Traditional Deer Management

QDM vs. Trophy and Traditional Deer Management

Quality Deer Management (QDM) is a household name to modern day deer hunters. You can’t pick up a hunting magazine, watch...

Habitat Improvement

How to Safely Drop Large Trees with a Chainsaw

How to Safely Drop Large Trees with a Chainsaw

A chainsaw is a valuable tool when it comes to improving deer habitat and manipulating a landscape to enhance hunting...

Herd Management

Why We Can’t Manage Deer Genetics

Why We Can’t Manage Deer Genetics

The power of selectively controlled breeding is incredible. With it, we transformed a wolf into a chihuahua over the course of...

Herd Monitoring

Turning Shed Antlers Into Skinning-Shed Bucks

Turning Shed Antlers Into Skinning-Shed Bucks

Some people are just plain lucky when it comes to finding shed whitetail antlers. Others spend countless hours walking the...

Deer Hunting

Momentum Beats Speed for Lethal Arrow Hits

Momentum Beats Speed for Lethal Arrow Hits

Lethal shots without wounding deer are every ethical hunter’s top priority, and shot placement and an understanding of...

Food Plots

Food Plot Species Profile: Grain Sorghum

Food Plot Species Profile: Grain Sorghum

My first introduction to sorghum was on a dove field over 25 years ago. The land manager had planted several strips of sorghum...

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