Texas Deer Hunting

Deer hunting in the state of Texas offers a good number of options. There are good herds of both white tail and mule deer here. The white-tail deer herds in Texas have steadily increased in most areas, while the mule deer have seen a downward trend in population since 1978. This has [...]

Ohio Deer Hunting

Whitetail deer hunting Ohio is booming these days. Record breaking harvests and record breaking trophy bucks seem to be a very common occurrence in this state. The 2006 season saw a record 237,000+ deers taken. One very notable trophy buck was a 291 2/8, taken in Adams County by John Schmucker with [...]

Missouri Deer Hunting

Many restrictions have been placed upon Missouri deer hunters throughout the years. Deer hunting was limited to certain counties, buck only or any-deer, and sometimes the whole season only lasted a day or two, if there was one. 1959 was the first year the use of firearms, during deer hunting season, was permitted [...]

Michigan Deer Hunting

Great Lakes, check, Mackinac Bridge, check, automobile capital(Detroit), check, but let’s not forget deer hunting, double check. Michigan has faced many difficulties surrounding deer management and differing strategies concerning them, but practice and patience have paid off and the deer population reflects it.
Settlement and unregulated hunting forced deer northward in the early 1800’s, to [...]

Kansas Deer Hunting

Today, Kansas is an excellent state for both whitetail and mule deer hunting. As with many other popular deer hunting states, Kansas was once home to an abundance of big game animals, including bison, deer, antelope and elk. Due to irresponsible land management practices and the usual over-hunting, big game was largely exterminated [...]

Iowa Deer Hunting

Iowa deer hunting history is a great example how fast things can go bad without good conservation efforts.  Within a hundred years from the time white settlers first came to Iowa, the deer population was so near being extinct that deer season was legally closed (1898).  It took another half a century for conservation efforts and [...]

Alabama Deer Hunting

Alabama’s deer population is relatively young compared to many states. When settlers arrived in the early 1800’s the deer population in Alabama was all but wiped out. The hardships brought on by the Civil War, made deer sightings a very rare event by the time the 1900’s arrived. Things begin to change [...]

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