THE GREATEST LESSONS

EVEN AFTER A LIFETIME SPENT HUNTING WHITETAILS, IT’S ALL TOO EASY TO FORGET THE IMPORTANT THINGS WE’VE LEARNED ABOUT DEER.

By Craig Boddington

My native Kansas didn’t have a deer season until I was a teenager, so my first real whitetail lessons came when I was stationed at Quantico. Those deep-woods Virginia deer kicked my tail. My main takeaway: I didn’t know nothin’. Later, I hunted whitetails in various places. I was never foolish enough to think I had them figured out, but by the time we bought a farm in Kansas I thought I knew a bit. I soon learned it wasn’t as much as I thought. Nearly 20 years later, I know my Kansas woods and their deer OK. You probably know your deer country, too. I won’t tell you how to hunt whitetails in your area. Instead, let’s think about stuff that should apply to whitetail hunting everywhere. Things that we…

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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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