What Does a Deer With CWD Look Like?

October 2, 2019

| By QDMA Staff

What does a deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD) look like? Most look as healthy as the buck in the trail-camera photo above. A few days after this photo was taken in November 2012, QDMA member Bob Weiland of Wisconsin killed this buck, and the deer tested positive for CWD. Whitetails carry CWD for an …

College Football Playoffs of Deer Science

September 4, 2019

| By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

College football games should all be played at night so I can catch them after I’m back in deer camp. Seriously, why must two of our nation’s greatest pastimes – deer hunting and college football – collide like they often do? On Saturday afternoons in fall, I know I can check the score on my …

Demystify Deer With 9 More Scientific Insights from Whitetail Research

July 17, 2019

| By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

Looking back over themes from 42 annual meetings of the Southeast Deer Study Group reveals the evolving concerns of professional whitetail researchers over the last four decades of North American deer hunting. When the first meeting was held in 1977, goals still included restoring deer to a few last pockets of their former range. Quickly …

Run, Jump and Play: a Look at Deer Agility and Jollity

July 9, 2019

| By Matt Ross

Faster than a speeding bullet? More powerful than a locomotive? Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? While it may seem to the average deer hunter that whitetails have supernatural abilities akin to our favorite comic book hero, deer do regularly use their speed and agility to navigate dangerous situations; like escaping from …

This Strange Buck Was a Throwback to Extinct Whitetail Ancestors

June 12, 2019

| By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

Each one of us is the product of our ancestors, and more recent relatives have the greatest influence on who we are. But sometimes, through the weird acoustics of the sprawling genetic cave from which we crawled, an echo reverberates up from the depths to be heard more clearly than it should by those of …

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