You got to be prepared to set a treestand up in the dark. Pick your tree in advance so you know it will work with your equipment. Practice a routine for getting set up in the tree and be familiar...

Big bucks leave clues about their presence in many different forms. Seeing a giant buck in person is an obvious way to identify that he is living in the area, but the best way to learn about a big...

Yes, oats will grow on top of the ground if given the correct set of conditions. These conditions include good seed to soil contact, soil quality, soil moisture, and keeping animals from eating the...

The Stump 4 - Banks Outdoors I did a lot of research before spending thousands of dollars on my first hard-sided hunting blind. After weighting out the pro's and con's of every blind that I could...

Yes, whitetail deer can smell the fumes that Thermacell's create. However, hunters should still use a Thermacell to combat mosquitos even though deer can smell it. As hunters, we are more concerned...

Yes, deer bed in standing cornfields. Safety and food are priorities for every deer and cornfields offer both. Hunters kill bedded deer in the corn every year and farmers have been known to get deer...