A heavy-antlered 12-point buck materializes on the trail. He’s only five steps from bow range, but then he throws his nose in the air, goes rigid with nervousness, and waves the white flag. Game over.

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At my hunting spot, I crawled into the Hunter’s Specialties 10-10 pop-up blind, which further contained and confined my human stink. When the season was but minutes old, a deer came walking through ...

Experienced deer hunters know that more deer are scared away by human scent than just about any other factor. Truth is, one of the reasons big whitetail bucks are so hard to kill is because their keen ...

Last Saturday kicked off the start of Minnesota’s bowhunting season, which runs from Sept. 14 through sunset on New Year’s Eve. We’re also in the middle of bear season, which runs Sept. 1 through Oct.

Deer don’t wait until you climb a stand to decide whether an area feels safe. Long before you ever settle in, your scent can already be doing damage. Veteran hunters learn that it’s rarely one big ...

Whitetails rely on their sense of smell daily to locate food, sort out complex social orders, identify mates and steer clear of danger. It is no mere coincidence that a deer’s olfactory superpower is ...