Deer & Deer Hunting

HOW TO ROUND UP A WHITETAIL

If nothing else is working, sometimes you gotta give something else a try.

This happened a long time ago. But the chance taken and lesson learned have been used to the demise of many an Upper Midwestern whitetail ever since.

It was the third or fourth day of the gun deer season. My brother and I were young and full of energy. The energy part is still not a problem, although I can no longer attach “young” to my life resumé.

The deer were hunkered down. Sitting and waiting for them to move was unproductive. Sightings were few and far between, limited mostly to maybe a

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