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    Deer Hunting: 100 Things to Know
    Deer Hunting: 100 Things to Know
    Deer Hunting: 100 Things to Know
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    Deer Hunting: 100 Things to Know

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    Concise introduction to a favorite sport. Fascinating "did you know?" facts. Compulsively readable presentation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStackpole Books
    Release dateDec 13, 2007
    ISBN9780811750974
    Deer Hunting: 100 Things to Know

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      Deer Hunting - Stackpole Books

      Copyright © 2008 by Stackpole Books

      Published by

      STACKPOLE BOOKS

      5067 Ritter Road

      Mechanicsburg, PA 17055

      www.stackpolebooks.com

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Cover design by Wendy Reynolds

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Deer Hunting : 100 things to know / J. Devlin Barrick, editor. — 1st ed.

      p. cm.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-3445-5

      ISBN-10: 0-8117-3445-5

      1. Deer hunting. I. Barrick, J. Devlin.

      SK301.D383 2008

      799.2 765—dc22

      2007032201

      eBook ISBN: 9780811750974

      Contents

      About Deer

      Clothing and Equipment

      Where to Hunt

      When to Hunt

      Basic Strategies

      Advanced Strategies

      After the Shot

      Sportsmanship

      Bibliography

      About Deer

      Whitetails and Mule Deer Are Different

      Most obviously, a whitetail deer has a broad tail that’s white underneath versus the slender, black–tipped tail of a mule deer. A mule deer has large, mulelike ears, unlike the smaller ears of the whitetail. Typical whitetail racks exhibit unbranched tines arising from main beams. Points beyond the brow tine on mule deer antlers typically fork.

      Whitetails range from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Hudson Bay to Panama. Mule deer also have an extensive range, but it is limited to western North America from central Mexico to just south of the arctic tundra. In the United States, their range extends from western North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska west to the Pacific Coast and adjacent islands.

      When running, these two species of deer can be differentiated by their gait. Mule deer employ a stiff–legged bounce called stotting. Whitetails run in typical headlong fashion, but also make lengthy leaps or bounds.

      Deer Inhabit Thick, Brushy Terrain

      Although larger varieties of mule deer are usually found in more open terrain, both mule deer and whitetails are found in stands of timber. Most spend their entire lives in a limited home range of two square miles, and in many cases, less.

      If deer live in mountainous or hilly terrain, however, they have distinct summer and winter ranges. Summers are often spent at higher elevations than winters. There is a downhill migration in the fall to escape heavy snows. As the snow melts in the spring or early summer the deer move uphill. Distance of travel may be as great as twenty miles.

      Some whitetail deer in northern climates migrate to wintering areas called yards, which are primarily lowland swampy areas. These yarding areas are often south, where snow depths are less. Deer that make seasonal movements often use the same routes year after year, unless habitat change requires an adjustment.

      Mulies spooked by hunters may travel miles to a new area. Whitetails seldom roam far. If pushed out of their territory, they usually return.

      Smell Is a Deer’s Strongest Defense

      Deer are color–blind. They see shades of black and white. Movement attracts their attention. Their sight is better to the sides than straight ahead because of the position of their eyes. Animals that live in open country tend to depend on their vision more than those in heavily wooded terrain.

      The sense of hearing is well developed in deer. Only sounds that are not normal in their environment, such as human voices, metallic sounds, fabric rubbing against brush, or noisy human feet, unduly alarm them.

      Deer rely heavily on their sense of smell—probably their strongest defense against hunters. If the wind is right, deer often smell hunters before they are within sight of their quarry. Animals that wind hunters sometimes make a noise by blowing through their nostrils to warn other deer of danger. This sound is often referred to as a snort. Both bucks and does make this sound, which sounds like a train whistle or someone blowing on an empty rifle cartridge.

      Deer Eat Tree Buds, Saplings, Leaves, and Grasses

      Basically, whitetails and mule deer are browsers, but they also graze on grasses and other vegetation when they are available. Additionally, deer are fond of a variety of agricultural crops. Leaves from trees and plants make up a large part of their diet in the summer and a lesser part in the fall. Deer frequently eat freshly fallen leaves during the fall, however, and sometimes will eat dried leaves from branches or off the ground during winter months.

      Deer do most of their browsing in fall and winter. Woody material such as the buds and the tender tips of saplings and shrubs from sagebrush, mountain mahogany, dogwood, willow, maple, and oak are preferred. Evergreen leaves from yew, cedar, juniper, hemlock, and some pines are also favored. Acorns, beechnuts, and apples are prime fall and winter deer foods, when available. It is not uncommon for deer to stand on their hind legs to reach morsels of food on trees, especially in the winter when rations are sometimes in short supply.

      Since only the lower jaw has

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