• Hunting a Small Property with No Hunting Pressure Means a Big Buck for Darrell Pennington

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    Editor’s Note: Darrell Pennington of Vernon, Alabama, hunts on 24 acres his dad bought in 1990 just outside of town in Lamar County, Ala. Through the years, Pennington has scouted, planted green fields, fed deer and hunted there. Pennington’s family and friends average taking two bucks a year from that land,

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  • Scouting for Deer and Learning 20 to 30 Acres with the Late Jerry Simmons

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    Editor’s Note: I consider the late Jerry Simmons of Jasper, Alabama, the creator of the Land Shark and Interceptor broadheads, one of the very-best deer hunters I’ve ever met. Simmons’ technique of pinpointing a place to take an opening-day buck always proved highly successful for him. Simmons told me years

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  • Taking a Monster Buck Deer on a Small Property with John Tuck

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    Editor’s Note: If you can pinpoint a no-pressure deer area, often you’ll find a very productive place to hunt. “My 17-year-old brother, Joe, wanted to argue with me about where he should hunt,” John Tuck of Oneonta, Ala., remembers. “I had cleared, plowed and seeded the road and a 1/2-acre green field in the

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  • Bowhunting 30 Acres Next to State Lands Ernie Calandrelli

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    Editor’s Note: Ernie Calandrelli of Orchard Park, New York, is a member of the Mossy Oak (https://www.mossyoak.com/) and PSE (http://www.pse-archery.com/) Pro Staffs and is Director of Publications and Advertising for Quaker Boy Calls (www.quakerboy.com). I’ve been a bowhunter for over 45 years and bowhunted all

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  • Identifying Where Backyard Buck Deer Are with Harry Daisey

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    Editor’s Note: Harry Daisey of Seaford, Delaware, leases 166 acres in Delaware, owns 450 acres in Maryland, but that land only homes about 5-6 wooded acres, and owns 16 acres in Virginia. Where he hunts in Delaware, he only has the two tracts of land behind his house – one 6 acres and the other …

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