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Understanding Deer Vision: Why Do They See So Well?

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

A couple years ago, I was hunting with my friend Barrett on a sunny day with blue skies and high pressure during the heart of the Illinois whitetail rut. He and I were targeting a huge, mainframe 8-pointer that I had encountered a few days prior, and the calm wind and weather made for ideal conditions to tag-team the buck. We were in separate stands, both on different ridges in the timber, but still within 100 yards of one another. Barrett messaged me and said that I stuck out like a sore thumb.

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7 Ways Any Hunter Can Participate in Habitat Management - North American Whitetail

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Only four percent of the U.S. population purchased a hunting license in 2022, equating to around 15 million Americans taking to the fields and forests in search of game of all kinds. Some folks are upland bird hunters, some chase rabbits with beagle dogs in the winter, some plink squirrels in August, or yelp up gobblers in the spring. If you’re like me, your focus is the whitetail deer of autumn. And if you’re like me, the subject of land management seems a bit out of reach. How so, you ask?

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The Best Advice For Beating Cold Feet

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

I have talked to many deer hunters from all over the map about staying warm in a cold deer stand, and one underlying topic comes up with predictable frequency: cold feet. With today’s wool blends in base layers and highly insulative outerwear, keeping the body warm is a straightforward concept. Keeping your hands warm in subfreezing temperatures can be tricky, but with handwarmers, waist belt hand muffs and proper gloves, frozen fingers can be easily mitigated.

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You Need To Know The Science Of The Whitetail Rut

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

All seasoned whitetail hunters live for November. Whether you are a weekend warrior or a vacation-day hoarder, we all like to get as much time afield during the best month of the calendar year. On Nov. 3, 2019, I was making a hyper-aggressive play on a large non-typical buck that I had been profiling for about 14 months. I had just started my three-week rutcation, and the vacation vibe had me amped as it usually does.

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Timely Scrape Tactics That Will Ensure Success This Season

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

In March of 2015, I was scouting and shed hunting a section of hardwood timber I had gotten permission to access the fall prior, when I came across a tremendous interior scrape along a ridge. It stopped me dead in my tracks. At face value, the scrape seemed to be in an unusual spot, and while I couldn’t quite understand the significance of it, I certainly began paying attention to the area.

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How To Hunt The Best Food Sources: A Season-by-Season Guide

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

We all know deer need to eat; that seems to be the easy part. But what they need to eat, when they need to eat it and how hunters can use it to their advantage can all be puzzling questions. In this article, I’ll explain how hunters can use a deer’s Digestible Organic Matter (DOM) needs to their advantage while scouting and hunting for mature whitetails.

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How To Target Big Bucks Based On Their Personality

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

I’m a sucker for mafia movies, shows and docu-series. You know the type. Shows where the bad guys are always driving the streets with their eyes on the rearview mirror, speaking in code and doing their business under constant suspicion the feds are listening in via wiretap. Shows where the good guys watch from long distances, building a case against the mobster of interest until the time to bring down the heat isn’t just right, it’s perfect. They move in after months or even years of observation.

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McCoy’s Pressure Washing Offers Quality Pressure Cleaning Services in College Grove

By Clint McCoy |EIN Presswire

McCoy’s Pressure Washing excels in providing superior pressure cleaning solutions for residential and commercial customers in Tennessee. COLLEGE GROVE, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES, June 2, 2023/ EINPresswire.com/ -- In today's demanding and fast-paced world, the upkeep of a clean and organized home can become exhausting.

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How To Prepare Each Month To Bag Your Best Buck

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Serious pursuit of target bucks is a 365-day annual endeavor, here's your monthly whitetail work list! My two annual Illinois buck tags are sacred to me. I don’t know why, but I take them on as a personal challenge every season like they burn a hole in my pocket. My goal is to harvest at least one target buck with either bow or shotgun per season. That’s it. Just one. These target bucks are more than just a few trail camera photos or velvet sightings from the truck cab on a summer’s drive.

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McCoy’s Pressure Washing Brings More Cleaning Options to Nashville

By Clint McCoy |EIN Presswire

McCoy's Pressure Washing provides expert cleaning and washing services to Nashville residents, including concrete sealing and deck staining. The guys were punctual, efficient, and precise.

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Map The Wind For Sure Fire Tactics - North American Whitetail

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

As a whitetail hunter or land manager, you come across little tips or tricks that make a tremendous difference in your experiences afield. When I was a young, aspiring trophy-buck hunter in my 20s, I met an out-of-state archer that hunted the rut in my home area of Illinois. The man was 20 years my senior, and you could just tell he was a killer. He wore wool camouflage and hunted with a stick bow. He hunted with a mobile stand and sticks combo before they were popular.

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McCoy's Pressure Washing Raises the Bar for Home Cleaning Services

By Clint McCoy |EIN Presswire

McCoy’s Pressure Washing offers affordable & professional pressure washing, concrete sealing & fence staining services for Tennessee locations like Brentwood. BRENTWOOD, TN, UNITED STATES, March 20, 2023 / EINPresswire.com/ -- Pressure washing gear is unlike any of the DIY cleaning tools that are easily available. The use of high-powered jets of water for cleaning mud or dust is unlike the cleaning gear that homeowners use for everyday cleaning chores.

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McCoy's Pressure Washing Delivers Deck Staining Services in Murfreesboro, TN

By Clint McCoy |EIN Presswire

McCoy's Pressure Washing provides a vast range of cleaning services, including deck staining, to the citizens of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. MURFREESBORO, TN, UNITED STATES, February 20, 2023 / EINPresswire.com/ -- Buying a home is a considerable investment. But maintaining it is an even bigger task. And some activities that fall under the maintenance category, such as window cleaning, gutter cleaning, deck staining, pressure washing, etc., must be left to professionals.

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How To Use Hidden Secrets While Winter Scouting Whitetails

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

I’m a total DIY deer hunter. I’ve been that way since boyhood when my Uncle Michael helped me tag my first deer by loaning me his Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer and three slugs. He once pointed to the ten-ring on a photograph of a buck in this very magazine and said, “This is where you wanna aim.” A lesson on field dressing came later, and that was about all the formal education I had on the subject. But I was hooked as a kid, and I thirsted for big buck knowledge.

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How To Better Stay Warm When Temperatures Plummet

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

On Nov. 11, 2019, the whitetail rut was in full swing, and I still had an Illinois buck tag burning a hole in my pocket. I hiked into a doe bedding area around noon, and by sunset I was battling for visibility, as an unexpected and unusual cold front pushed into the area. Here in the southeastern part of the state, we almost never see measurable snow during the rut, let alone near-zero windchill temperatures. And I’ll be the first to admit, I was not prepared for that weather event.

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How To Successfully Still Hunt Whitetails

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

When I was in my early 20s, I used to hang a couple dozen tree stands every summer. The work was tedious, hot and extremely time consuming. And I always felt like I was acting like an outfitter for myself and members of my hunting family at home. Sometimes these stands wouldn’t even get used in the fall, and I’d have to burn more time and energy pulling an unused stand in the winter. The entire process just seemed extremely inefficient.

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North American Whitetail

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

My 2021 deer season was over before it even started That’s what I told myself as I hobbled my way back to the house on a humid early August afternoon. I had taken off on a long hike, intent to check several trail cameras and pick through some summer habitat looking for deer sign. Halfway through my work in the timber, I came to a low creek bottom full of stinging nettles about as tall as a man.

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The Anatomy of a Summer Scouting Pack

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Last July 4th fell on a humid, hazy Sunday. After a noontime family gathering, I ran home and snatched up my summer scouting pack and set off on foot for a long, late afternoon hike in the heat. The goal was simple: withstand the sweat and mosquitoes and infiltrate a larger section of timber surrounded by chin-height standing corn on all sides.

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The Ultimate Guide to Summer Scouting Whitetails

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Summer is full of things to do in one’s down time. Fishing, boating and golfing opportunities abound. Backyard barbecues and vacations with the family are likely. The summer season is often seen as a time to unwind and take it easy. But not for die hard whitetail enthusiasts. For hunters seeking to fill their tags on mature, trophy caliber bucks, summer is full of toil and scouting effort. Loafing is not an option.

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5 Common Deer Abnormalities Caught on Camera

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

With trail cameras, deer abnormalities are more visible than ever. However, these conditions aren't always what we think. Trail cameras give us a unique look into deer diseases and abnormalities. However, we often fail at properly identifying them. (Photo by Clint McCoy) April 07, 2022 By Clint McCoy, DVM Being a veterinarian is an everyday adventure.

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The Mobility Movement of Modern Hang-On Deer Stands

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

A mobile hang-on stand can be the ticket to success when hunting the changing patterns of big bucks. Having a mobile tree stand setup allows for more precise stand locations, a tactic every modern-day whitetail hunter should have in their playbook. (Photo courtesy of Clint McCoy) July 12, 2021 By Clint McCoy Looking back to the early ’90s, my first few Illinois deer seasons found me sitting in one of five treestands.

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Don't Let Sudden Challenges Derail Your Deer Season

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

When something goes wrong, don't give up — adapt on the fly! This mature buck didn’t vacate a farm that was being logged during the season. But the author assumed he would and quit hunting the property. (Photo courtesy of Clint McCoy, DVM) By Clint McCoy Uncle Lynn was one of the most intellectually gifted people I’ve ever known. Born in a small town here in Illinois, he graduated as an electrical engineer from the touted Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and found his calling in life.

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Have a Backup Plan Against EHD

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Clint McCoy If you're in an EHD zone, your target bucks may not even make it to hunting season. If that's the case, you need a Plan B to save your fall. “Survivorman,” as he was known by the author, didn’t make it to opening day of the 2019 Illinois bow season. Losing a target buck well before the rut is now a familiar issue in EHD zones.

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Summer Trail Camera Strategies for Velvet Bucks

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Clint McCoy If you want top-notch intel from your deer herd, you have to understand where to place your summertime trail cameras! Most whitetail hunters would agree — there is no better feeling than standing next to a trophy animal with your buddies or family and having a "Hannibal Smith Moment" together. Remember hit 80s TV show, The A-team?

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Trail Cameras Advancing with Solar Technology

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Clint McCoy - June 16, 2020 Solar Cellular Soakers. That's one way to describe a deadly new breed of trail camera that can run off the power of the sun and transmit its photos, allowing you to keep human intrusion to a minimum. My love affair with game cameras started way back in 1999, when I was a starving college student with a growing passion for deer hunting.

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Why You Should Let Your Trail Cameras "Soak"

By Clint McCoy |North American Whitetail Magazine Verified

Clint McCoy All else being equal, the longer a scouting camera runs, the more it can tell you. That's what makes “soaking” such a great way to scout pressured bucks. As an underclassman at Palestine High School in Illinois, I had the distinction of serving as the sentinel officer for our chapter of Future Farmers of America. At the beginning of our meetings, the vice president would call roll of officers. When he got to me, I’d recite, “Stationed by the door.

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How Fast Can a Stand “Recover” From Hunting Pressure?

By Clint McCoy |National Deer Association

It’s simple: Deer respond negatively to hunting pressure. Their avoidance of heavily hunted areas is undeniable, as my graduate-level research at Auburn University documented. But exactly how long does it take for a specific stand site to “recover” from a hunter’s presence? We now have an idea. In my study using GPS collars, I tracked the movements and home ranges of 37 bucks at Brosnan Forest, a 6,400-acre study site in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

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How Fast Can a Stand “Recover” From Hunting Pressure?

By Clint McCoy |deerassociation.com

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GPS Reveals Early Season Buck Movement Patterns

By Clint McCoy |National Deer Association

You hear it all the time: A hunter gets a bunch of trail-camera photos of a buck early in the season and then, poof, the deer pulls a Houdini and disappears for the rest of the season. How nice would it be to track his movements and know exactly where he went? Well, thatâ€™s what I was able to do with 37 bucks at Brosnan Forest, a 6,400-acre study site in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

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