Sometimes you can’t stop Mother Nature from handing you a food plot failure or many failures. If you want to avoid this disappointment, it’s imperative that you do what you can to control the...

The best food plot seed for low light and shady conditions are cereal rye, wheat, oats, subterranean clover, ladino clover, and some brassicas. Each of these seed types will germinate in less than...

There are a lot of different scenarios that explain if deer will return to the same area. The first step is to ask why they left in the first place. Deer leave because of a lack of security, food,...

If you plan on hunting close to a house in Illinois, you should know that you need to be at least 100 yards away from it. Additionally, if you're hunting outside the 100 yard distance, but are still...

To keep a buck coming back, you need to offer him security and food. The things that scare deer and keep them from returning is human pressure, social pressure from other deer, and potential...

The females in the deer herd live on much less land than bucks. Several radio collar studies have shown that a buck’s home range is about 1 square mile (1 section of land), and a does is about half...