Hi Mike: I recently shot this deer in Massachusetts. I’ve never seen or heard of a deer with a nose like this. Any idea what would cause this or how common it is? The deer didn’t have any other noticeable anomalies. The nose seemed to be completely normal except for the color. Was not swollen. Thanks, Karl O. Karl, thanks for sending this. In my 40 years of studying, observing and writing about whitetails, I have never seen or heard of a deer with a solid white-tipped nose. I scoured the Internet for info and pictures, but found nothing. I ran Karl’s pictures by a couple of America’s top deer biologists, men who have observed literally tens of thousands of [...]

If you’re still hunting and trying to fill a buck tag, remember: Afternoon hunts are best in late season. Deer move from their beds to a cornfield or beans or a thicket or a weedy pasture or a bait pile--anywhere they can find last scraps of food. When you hunt a food source, the wind can’t blow back toward a bedding cover or a travel lane out, and it can’t swirl out into a field where the does will pop out first. Set up downwind of a trail or funnel where your scent will blow back into a dead zone in the timber where no deer will hopefully come out. If just one doe winds you and starts blowing, you [...]