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The research desk applied to the decisions you make in the woods: how to read a bench or a draw, when to trust your wind forecast, whether the corn is what killed your cameras, and how to ask for permission and get a yes. Same standard as the papers: state the method, cite the evidence, and refuse to fake what isn't knowable.
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Buck Testosterone: Why His Routine Changes During the Rut
Research on buck testosterone, local rut timing, age, feeding, and the difference between searching and breeding.
Published Oct 4, 2026 · 8 min read - Field Craft
How Fewer Receptive Does Shape the Second Rut
How fewer receptive does can concentrate second-rut activity and how to hunt current food sources, covered approaches and fresh breeding behavior.
Published Oct 4, 2026 · 12 min read Buying Lime, Fertilizer and Seed from a Soil Report: Cost for 1,000 Forage Pounds
Convert a food plot lab's application recommendations into product amounts by accounting for what each purchase supplies. Calculations using examples published by Alabama extension and Mississippi State cover lime, fertilizer and seed, including the least expensive seed for producing 1,000 forage pounds.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min read1.54 tons
1.54 tons- 90.2%lower confidence limit on hit rate after a streak of 29 hits
Test Farther Shots to Find Your Bowhunting Limit, and Log Every Arrow
Nine arrows landing consecutively within a 10-inch circle establish only a lower limit of 72% for your actual hit rate with 95% confidence. Follow a printable log for testing progressively longer distances, with the math behind it and the results and gaps from three archery studies.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min read - 2.31×Saturday against Tuesday archery kills in Minnesota, October 2025
October Slowdowns and Cold Fronts: Evidence From Deer Collars and 29,777 Archery Kills
The collar research we could examine offers little evidence of movement changes tied to cold fronts or temperature. Minnesota's 2025 archery records show much larger kill counts on Saturdays than Tuesdays. Across these files, clock time and calendar timing account for bigger differences than fronts.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read - 37states with wild CWD detections, per the USGS release
CWD Areas: A Hunter's Plan for Cooling, Sampling, Transport and Carcass Waste
Wild CWD appears in the USGS county records for 37 states, including 76% of Nebraska's counties. Here is the sequence to follow after a kill, using agency-published timing and three studies that inform venison handling and carcass disposal.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 6 min read - 1 in 4of Wisconsin bowhunters have had a fall or near fall
Tree Stand Falls: What the Evidence Says About Staying Attached
Surveys, hospital records and a state report provide the fall figures we can check, but their counts measure different things. We compare them without combining them. Guidance from three state agencies shares these steps: wear a safety harness before climbing, maintain three contact points, use a haul line and tell someone your planned location. Wisconsin also recommends a ground-level lifeline connection and a foot strap.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 6 min read - 58%modeled chance deer ran at first human speech, Georgia study
Scent Claims Under Review: What the Tests Examined
Our digitized readings of the Georgia playback study's published figure give modeled fleeing probabilities of 58% at first exposure to human speech and 19% to 27% for carnivore calls, with uncertainty of about one percentage point. Here, seven claims about managing scent are grouped by their measured results and their limits for hunters.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 6 min read - 28.4%of Kansas walk-in tract records list exactly 160 acres
Walk-In Properties: Acreage, Hunting Rules, and Parking Choices
Across four state layers, walk-in properties have median sizes of 104 to 195 acres. Many restrict hunting to turkeys or small game. Among the three states with measurable parking distances, most mapped lots lie farther than 400 meters from the property.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min read - $2,000recreational-use receipts that trigger Wisconsin's payment test
State Walk-In Access or a Paid Lease? Where Owner Liability Changes
Federal grants fund some state walk-in programs, while hunters pay for private leases. Four state laws handle those payments differently; Kansas accounts for 94.6% of the walk-in acreage mapped across four states.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min read - 32%of archery-season elk fixes were on closed land covering 3% of the range
Do Montana Elk Escape onto Private Land? The Answer Differs Between Two Herds
For both herds, the fraction of archery-season fixes on closed land exceeded that land's fraction of the range. Still, public hunters could access the ground containing most fixes in three of four herd-seasons. The clearest differences between the two herds concern how much ground was closed and where it lay.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min read - 4 to 8 kHzrange of peak hearing sensitivity in deer
Deer Eyes Lose Small Details While Their Ears Favor Higher Pitches
Tests measured visual acuity at 4 to 6 cycles for each degree, with peak hearing sensitivity within 4 to 8 kHz. These limits describe what deer eyes and ears can detect. Testing involved no garments, detergents or field distances.
Published Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read