Deer change where and how long they feed when they detect the scent of large predators, reducing damage to young trees.

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New research shows that the mere smell of predators is enough to change deer behavior and limit browsing damage to tree saplings. The findings offer a ...

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 ...

Animals don’t suddenly get smarter when hunting season starts. What changes is pressure, and pressure forces fast adaptation.

It really stinks when you don't get a deer. Too often, whitetail deer get a whiff of human presence and hightail it before hunters sense their scents stink. Regular gun season for shotgun and rifle ...

New research shows that the mere smell of predators is enough to change deer behavior and limit browsing damage to tree saplings. The findings, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, offer a ...

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Last season, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries asked deer hunters to voluntarily refrain from using urine-based scents to attract deer or to mask their own scent.

According to the National Deer Association, during the 2023-2024 hunting season, U.S. hunters successfully harvested more than 3 million whitetail bucks, thus establishing a new record for mature buck ...