I have planted in the past corn fields as much as six acres and left the whole field standing except for just a small portion. Corn fields can draw deer in the early season but is more beneficial to deer in the late winter months. Deer take in the carbohydrates of the corn and add needed weight for the extreme cold months to come. Placing too much pressure on these fields will hurt you from seeing that big buck in the late season. The deer get to understand the hunters behavior and change their daily routs into night routs. This is how the old bucks that you may get on your trail camera get old. You may see them and think you have them mapped out and they change their moves on you in a heart beat.

If you are hunting small acreage the older bucks are more likely to stay if you put less pressure and watch your doe herd that you may have. I see no harm in harvesting a mature doe in the early season such as bow season. Allow them to walk when gun season comes in. Where the does are the bucks want be far behind when the rut kicks into full swing. I have learned this the hard way on my own and by watching others mess their hunting locations up as I have done in the past. My favorite stand is a shooting house that sits square dead in the middle of an old pasture field that once held cows. It is standing underneath and beside a large pine tree all alone. Forty yards out in front of the stand is six rows of seven-year old sawtooth oak, live oaks, and Chinese chestnut trees that are all bearing nuts this season.

The trees are planted every twenty feet apart so that they can be kept clean through the summer months and fertilized twice a year. Once in the spring and once again in the fall when the small food plots are planted around them. In between each row and all around these trees there is some sort of winter food source there for my deer. There are five rows all together that get planted. Each row has something different except the two outside rows. These rows are planted in Brassica plants Georgia collard. Each row between the trees is roughly about 75 yards long and 20 yards wide. Inside the Brassica plants you have crimson, arrow leaf, and yuchi clovers planted. The last row left is planted in chicory.

By planting the clover it also acts as a food source in the spring time for my turkeys. So I am killing two birds with one stone. When planting different types of plants for wildlife it gives them a choice to eat something over the other. On small properties the more you plant the better the odds move into your favor. Even though your neighbor next door may have 200 to 300 acres more. You still have a chance at drawing some good deer onto your property and the odds increase into your favor. Do not ever give up on your dream of harvesting a great deer. You and I as outdoors-men stand the chance of taking a trophy in our own back yard just as much as the next hunter. We as hunters manage our money as we do our land and deer herd. What I mean by this, is if we are tight wads with what kind of deer we shoot then we are just as tight with our money. And I understand that in today’s economy everything sucks and we as citizens of the United States have to deal with it.

Alpha Mudlite Realtree® AP® Hunting Boots

• A boot made for comfort
• Scent control
• Lightweight
• 7.0 mm neoprene for cold to extreme cold weather
• brush tuff puncture resistant upper material for long term durability
• 100% waterproof

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• 360º Snake Guard Protection
• 100% Water Proof
• Scent-Free protection
• abrasion resistant toe cap
• comfort
• Side – Zip for easy on and off

These are just a few things that make these two sets of boots worth paying the money for. If my feet get cold in the dead winter then I am ready to head back to the house or camp. My feet do not sweat in these boots unlike some of the other hunting boots that I have had in the past. We all want comfort and it is here with LaCrosse. We all want 100% water proof barrier and it is also here. No more leaving the stand early because of the normal issues you may have with other style boots. Sit all day and never think of your feet getting cold or hurting from the long walk in. The days of buying boots for hunting are just about to become the end when you buy from LaCrosse Footwear.

I have used feeders for some time now on my hunting property in Alabama. The only down fall to supplemental feeding here in Alabama is that you have to have all feeder’s and feed up ten day’s before you head out to hunt. So this only allows me to feed from February 1st through March 1st then the feed has to come up and be gone for ten day’s before March 15th for opening day of Spring time turkey hunting. Then the feeder’s get placed back out on May 1st and will stay up until ten days before opening day of  bow season which starts here in Alabama in October of every year.

This is still not enough feeding time for my deer to feed like they should. They should be able to feed 365 day’s a year so they get the maximum fed protein that they need to grow big antler’s. This is where when I am not feeding I always try to make an attempt to have some kind of high protein food source out there for them. This is also where the food plots come into play and other type’s of crop food source that may be still left standing through turkey season. In most places there isn’t one strip of crop food left after January of each year.

I have found out by having a gravity fed feeder around during the months that there is no hunting will allow you to feed and feed correctly. Yes! trough style feeder’s work in this case also. By allowing a deer to feed when he get’s ready to feed will be a plus for your hunting property more than you realize. You do take the chance of having more deer feed at night but if you get in there and add the feed at scheduled times and stay out of the area as much as possible the deer will get use to feeding more in the day light hours.

This is where staying out of a place and leaving it as scent free as possible will pay off for you on opening day. I always wear gloves and scent free boots when taking time to go and place more feed into my feeder’s. This just helps me when the season starts. Even though bucks are into their summer time patterns and running together this will allow you to scout from a distance or check game camera’s only when necessarily. I check my game camera’s only when I go to add feed. This is like killing two birds with one stone.

My new choice of gravity fed feeder’s is the Buck Eye Feeder. Designer Steve Brown has brought a whole new meaning to feeding your wildlife. He has designed a feeder to allow wildlife to feed on a regular bases instead of allowing them to only feed at certain times. The Buck feeds, grows faster, and antlers get larger in twice the time.

Example:

If a deer eats 12 lbs of protein in one hour at a gravity feeder then it allows him to get his belly full. If he eats under a spin cast feeder he is not getting the whole 12 lbs that he would normally eat due to other deer eating at the site with him. Less food means less protein in this matter! Dose this make sense? So by allowing a deer to feed at their own pace may mean better overall health and larger antler development on them bucks that you seek. Remember that a buck need to have at least a 16% to 20% protein diet for 365 days a year and not just 4 to7 months of that diet to grow its fully developed set of antlers.

The Boone and Crockett club has placed high standards on being able to record a whitetail deer into their books. Even though there are record book bucks taken somewhere either in the U.S. or Canada each year. Pope & Young has also done the same. Safari Club International known as (SCI) has their on way of measuring trophy deer.  But do you really know what makes big antlers on deer. Is it the protein? How about the genetics of the deer? Can it be you have big deer on your property or you don’t have them? A lot of these same questions are asked each year and the same responses come out for the answers.

I have been a member in the past of several different types of hunting clubs. Some having more restrictions than the others. One club says only eight point or better. Another says six point outside the ears or better. But not one single club that I have ever been in said the deer has to be four or five years old before you can shoot it. Even though a daily protein level of 16% to 18% for a whitetail buck is needed 365 days a year it still is not enough. The genes of a buck also comes to mind when playing the antler growing game. But it too is still not enough.

A whitetail buck dose need all these or some of these things to grow but the one thing we all seem to leave out is their age. Now here is where the fun part comes into play. Say you are in this club that says you can only shoot an 8 point or better. You are hunting by yourself on a cool winter evening and a small 4.5 year old basket racked 9 point that want even score a thing walks out into the green field one hour before dark. You then study this 9 point a bit before you start to pull the trigger. Ten minutes later a 7 point walks out but is a 2.5 year old deer, that’s antlers would score in the 130′s. Which one would you shoot? Tempting isn’t it!

We should really think before we pull the trigger now days. That is if you want to grow big antlers. If the big antler thing isn’t your style then a older doe would be just fine for a little meat in the freezer. The doe harvesting should and can be a factor playing role in growing mature bucks. Too many does means less high quality food for the younger bucks. This also means that it might as well take five times longer to grow him compared to a buck that get’s high quality food year round somewhere else. Even though you do not have thousands of acres of land you can still manage and grow large antler deer on your property.

I have the chance each year to pay $16 and hunt 12,000 acres close too and around the Alabama River that holds plenty of big antler bucks. This land is in fact all public hunting ground and the hunting possibilities  here are as simple as buying your Alabama state licenses and a (WMA) wildlife management licenses. Even though that I also have 100 acres here and there that I also hunt the public land is still there for me to hunt when I may feel that I have put too much pressure on my own land. There are restrictions on the public land such as bow hunting only areas and only limited to certain two day hunts here and there for gun use.

But we all can take the rite measures if we make a plan and stick to it. To most of us sticking to the plan can sometimes be the hard part if we get to that point of thinking that is may be impossible to do where we hunt. Neighbors can also help with your program by trying it themselves. In fact they may already have a plan but may not be exactly what you may be searching for. So the best thing for you to do in this case is to stick to your plan and allow your neighbors to see with time at the large rack bucks that you harvest. Let them walk and watch them grow. Another good idea to comparing your property to your neighbors is to try and make your property the best place that a deer may want to spend his time during day and night time hours. So the next time you wish to grow a large rack deer remember just one thing. You are the one the make the deciding factor of pulling the trigger!

Good Luck!

Black is the original Stedi-Stock Camera, Range Finder, Spotting Scope or Video Camera Shoulder Brace. Shoulder Stabilizer that is ultra-light weight at only 6 ounces, durable and constructed of Hi-Strength Nylon complete with shoulder Strap. It gives the user STABILITY with MOBILITY and keeps your optical device right there for instant use. Take the blur out of your photos, get a bounce back at longer ranges with fewer clicks on your Range Finder, Carry your Spotting Scope with you in the field without a bulky cumbersome tripod, and take the BOUNCE out of your Videos. You can read more about the Stedi-Stock at the Stedi-Stock web site.

With the Stedi-Stock you will never ever have the trouble of shaky video or out of focused pictures anymore. This invention was created by Harold Hurst of Gordonville, Texas.  An avid hunter and outdoors-men of today’s society. People like Harold is what makes the Great outdoors what it is today and we would like to thank him for joining us here at Hello Hunting. When I first talk to him on the phone he had taught me so much about his invention. I was up for the Stedi-Stock Challenge from the get-go.

At the Stedi-Stock company they are here to help you with all your stabilizing needs when it comes to creating new memories. After all creating new outdoor memories is what life should be about. As I have said in the past so many TV Outdoor Shows use all kinds of of camera arms to mount their cameras to. But if they would just try the Stedi-Stock one time they would throw all others away.

Well once again we are giving something away for the Month of August just like we did in July. Donald K. Allen from Lumberton, North Carolina won a gift pack valued at over $50, that was sponsored by Rex Holmes Jr. and his Vapor Trail Scents company. Well now we have a whole other contest starting up and the rules are simply the same as last month.

The Rules

The rules are simple once again.

• Leave a comment on this post in the comment box below or any other post on the site between August 1st and August 31st. It can be about yourself, the site, hunting in general, or just to say that you want some free stuff.
• Make sure you leave a valid email address in the email box that is provided.

We’d really love for you to continue to browse the site a bit, get involved, and leave comments on other articles.  Also feel free to let us know if there is anything else that you would like to see or read about and we will do our best at getting it on the site. If you are interested in writing for Hello Hunting just contact Shannon Wood, Justin Tadlock, or Shannon Lee for more info on getting started. We’d even love for you to join our Facebook group. Of course, these aren’t requirements for entering the contest. We’d just love to build up our hunting community here even larger than it already is.

August Gift Pack includes:

A  camo super combo package which means it comes with the following:

Stedi-Stock shoulder mount with the Quick Release Attachment, the SuperClamp, monopod and the Quick Rifle Rest. A valued gift pack worth well over $125 could be your just for following the rules and leaving a response on Hello Hunting. 

The contest runs until the last day of August. We will email the randomly-picked winner once the contest is over so we can send you some free stuff.

I doubt you can find any type of hunter who has not dreamed of going on a guided hunt. Over the last decade, that dream has become a reality for many hunters partly because of the immense growth in the number of outfitters in the United States and other parts of the world. For many of these outfitters, it is a way for them to make additional income besides their primary profession or help local farmers advertise their crop land that they ordinarily would not allow the public to hunt. For these reasons, it is fairly easy for a hunter to shop around and find their hunt of a lifetime at a price he/she can afford.

My husband, Travis Lee, and a few of his close friends have had the opportunity, for the last several years, to travel to Sullivan County Missouri and hunt with Adam Moore with Moore Hunting Properties. The trip takes 16 hours to drive from our house, so Travis always allows two days for travel time. He prefers the do it yourself hunts that Adam offers where the hunter scouts the property and hangs his own stands during the 5 day hunt.

The first day at camp was a short day due to travel and the guys spent their time purchasing their license, scouting, and hanging stands. Right off, Travis located a 40 acre clover field with huge scrapes on the back corner and a creek bottom that the deer were using to travel from their bedding area to the clover field.

While hanging his Old Man lock-on tree stand in smaller oak tree in the creek bottom, Travis heard a limb break about 50 yards across the creek and spotted a buck he guessed to measure in the 140′s headed to the clover field looking for does. Travis couldn’t believe that the buck was oblivious to the noise he was making in the tree, as he continued out into the open field. The other guys also found great buck sign and hung their stands where they felt confident they would take a big buck. The guys had certainly had buck fever as they shared their findings over dinner that evening.

Knowing that his stand was more of an afternoon stand, Travis chose to sit there the first morning of the hunt and while he saw several mature does, no shooter bucks appeared. One of his traveling partners, Johnny, did however see numerous rack bucks and took a mature 130 inch 8 point buck at about 15 yards with his Hoyt Katera compound bow and 125 grain Thunderhead Broadhead.

The afternoon hunt did, however, prove to be an eventful evening of hunting for Travis. After getting in his stand at 3 P.M., he watched 4 smaller bucks and numerous turkey gobblers feed in the cow pasture that adjoined the creek bottom and clover field. About 30 minutes before dark, Travis heard footsteps coming up the creek bottom and a mature doe passed by him at about 20 steps and entered the clover field.

Not long after, Travis heard heavy foot steps in the creek bottom again and could tell it was a larger deer approaching his stand. Through the brush, he could tell it was a monster buck and his heart began to race as the buck worked his way through the creek bottom and closer to Travis’s stand. The buck froze at 35 steps behind some limbs and began to act nervous as he licked at some branches where the doe had passed earlier.

Finally, he began to inch closer and Travis drew his Bowtech 82nd Airborne compound bow equipped with Rage 100 grain 2 blade expandable broadhead and prepared for a shot at the giant buck. Upon penetration of the arrow, the buck took about 8 steps toward the clover field and fell dead. He had bagged a 160 and 3/8 inch typical 10 point that sported 11 inch brow tines (as scored by a MO Game and Fish Officer). The buck weighed in at 275 pounds.

Travis and friends have since traveled to Missouri to hunt a few other times, but have passed up other bucks that were close, but not quite as big as the giant Missouri white tail buck that now resides on our wall courtesy of Tunnage Taxidermy. If you are looking for an exciting and affordably priced hunt, give Moore Hunting Properties a shout. I am certain Adam will be more than happy to try to fit your needs. Travis is certainly pleased with his trophy buck.

WWE Hall of fame Legend Shawn Michaels has stepped out of the WWE ring and into the wild with MacMillan River Adventures. After recording on my (DVR) and watching the first three episode’s on the Outdoor Channel I have learned it is going to be hard to miss one single show. The very first episode was aired on June 28, 2011 on the Outdoor Channel. Shawn Michaels and Keith Mark takes base camp in the middle of the famous Yukon to go after one of the top four-legged animals in the world known as the Yukon Moose.

The show started off by showing some of the WWE’s ring time with Shawn and moves on to some of the best hunting adventures in the world. As Shawn takes his wrestling gear off and put’s on his camo to head out for the famous Yukon moose. You bet your tail that each Tuesday night either I or my (DVR) will be getting the new inside look as the show continues. Let’s take a look at the teaser and you want be upset that you did. A don’t want to miss show that is going to change the Outdoor Channel from here out.

Did you think we were going to show you the whole show? You got to see this!

Harold Hurst from Texas sent me a message asking me if I had ever seen a small piece of equipment called the Stedi Stock. I had told him that I had never even heard of it. So his reaction is, “Hey I will send you one”, and you tell me how it works. I had called Mr. Harold up and told him that I would love to try out his invention and to my surprise when it came to my door steps I was very happy at what I saw. Now at this point it has done everything that it is suppose to do and even more.

I will continue to put it through test and see how the outcome of the test go about. There are so many camera arms out there on the market today and the cost of them are sky high. The cost of the Stedi Stock is only $29.95 plus $5.00 shipping. You can get the better deal and get the camo super combo package for $109.00 plus shipping. This comes with everything from the steady stock, mono pod, super clamp, quick release, and even the rifle rest. Everything that you need is all in one bundle ready for you to film your next hunt. You can learn more about the Stedi Stock just by clicking here. “ Stedi Stock ”

I have noticed that I have yet to find any flaws in the making of this equipment yet at this time. Everything can fit into a back pack for easy carrying. The set up time to put all of it together is less than 1 minute. that is a plus compared to hanging a stand and strapping on a tree arm to mount the camera.

It’s durability is strong and water resistant. If you can hold a gun up to your shoulder then you can hold up the Steadi Stock with a camera mounted to it. This small set up is going to change the way hunter’s film their hunts from now on.

Just mount your camera, aim and shoot! It is that simple and that easy even a child can do it. In fact I would put my name behind it and this is something that I don’t do very often for those of you that know me. The size of everything in the whole package makes time easier for not just the set up but as I have already said once, carrying it as well.

There will be no more climbing out of tree and then doing a follow up shot with a tripod. The mono pod can handle that for you. In fact you want even need the mono pod unless you just want to use it. The Stedi Stock will do all the work for you.

Knowing that there are so many gimmicks out there in the outdoor industry today it is simple to see that this is not one of them. Think back about ten years or so when TV shows were using those cameras that weighed 25 lbs. If they had the Stedi Stock back then like we do today all that shaky footage would have never been there.

Thank God for all the new inventions that have come out and those of them that work are great. There are some out there that work. But the question is ” How Well ” do they work? There is greatness and there is fair working conditions when it comes to products in the outdoor industry.

So take just a few minutes of you time and check this product out and you too may be ordering you one before hunting season roles around. This will make a great gift to any hunter and could even lead you into filming or taking pictures of your hunts to come. ” Tell them that Hello Hunting sent you. ”

Good Luck!

In 2009 a couple of hunting buddies, Joey McGaha (St. Amant, LA) and Ross Tuttle (West Lake, LA) and I decided we would go on a 10-day deer hunt to Wyoming.  In addition to the experience of the hunt, our purpose for going was to get video footage using the Vapor Maker, a scent dispersal product I had just debuted at the 2009 Buckmasters Expo.

To get video footage of a hunt you need a video camera and an operator. Joey and Ross had never been filmed hunting and I had never operated a video camera, but that didn’t deter us one bit. After all I had used a Canon digital camera with success; I just needed to get a Canon video camera to take on the hunt. I searched Ebay and purchased a used camera I felt would be just what I needed. The purchase came in less than 24 hours before we were to leave for Wyoming, so I had no time to even test out the camera. I had purchased the tapes and downloaded the manual, how difficult could this be?

We had planned to leave in mid-September, barring no work or personal problems arising. The day came; actually the night finally came because we left at 9 pm and drove the 1800 miles -26 hours – straight through to the house we had rented in Wyoming.  We unloaded and got everything ready to go hunting.  We unpacked the video camera and started to load the tapes, realizing none of us had ever seen a professional video camera before, much less turn one on or load a tape in it. Does this sound like three country boys on a deer hunt?

We got the camera on and loaded the tape in…no luck.  Just an error message that said “no tape.”  So we tried again and again….still the “no tape” message.  What’s a country boy to do, but call the customer service line?  We did and they led us through every step imaginable, still “no tape.”  I even called the pawn shop owner in Chicago, IL that I had purchased the camera from.  He could only offer to let me send it back. Talk about frustrating, here we had come 1,800 miles to video our deer hunt and the camera wouldn’t work. Trying to do too much too fast, I thought.  

 I was feeling pretty bad about the whole experience when it occurred to me there was writing inside the camera where we had been trying to load the tape.  Sure enough, it said, “push close this first.”  Presto, it worked, the tape was loaded and we were ready to film and hunt. I didn’t think much of that customer service representative, and I could only imagine that she was relating to her co-workers the story of the three hunters who travelled across country to film a hunt and didn’t know how to turn the camera on or load the tape. Now we were ready to head out. 

With the afternoon approaching we were feeling confident that we could find a good vantage point to sit and film deer. This afternoon would be all about getting footage of how many big bucks were out there and how they were moving. We were excited and felt blessed because we saw 7 bucks that afternoon, one of which was about 170 inches.  We felt fortunate that we got to film him sparring with a small 6-point. About 40 yards from us we saw a doe come across the creek and pick up a 17 inch 10-pt and take him back across the creek. 

It was a great sight which I did capture on video, but Joey was so amazed he forgot to even pick up his bow. It just so happened the wind was blowing from us to the deer, but whenever the deer would get fidgety I would use the Vapor Maker® to spray scent and they would calm down almost immediately.

It turned out to be a great afternoon and I was confident I had all kinds of footage. We couldn’t wait to get back to camp to view the footage. Turns out Murphy’s Law had come with us to Wyoming. The TV at our camp was so old the antenna wires were screwed to the TV, and of course, it had no cable connection to view the video. God smiled on us again that day because the local hardware store had a box converter to hook the camera up to the TV. That problem solved, we were now more than ready to view the footage we had taken.

We plugged everything in and sat back to relive a great afternoon. You can’t imagine our shock and disappointment when all we saw was the camera jumping all over the place. I was zooming in and out and moving left to right at lightning speed. We decided day one was a learning experience and went to bed looking forward to the next day.

We slept in that morning to give the deer time to bed down so we could slip in and hang stands. That afternoon the wind was blowing in every direction, but we managed to slip back in to our stands. We saw several bucks and does, but only one buck came close enough for a good bow shot.  It was a small mule deer buck which walked right under the stand without picking up our scent. The Vapor Maker® was doing a great job of attracting deer and covering our scent.

The next morning we returned to our stands even though we felt they weren’t in the best place to hunt and film. The deer were just starting to move when the bottom dropped out and it came a flooding rain. We had no choice but to go back to the truck and wait out the flood to protect the camera. Even though I had brought along a heavy duty garbage bag to cover the camera, I didn’t want to take any chances of ruining it before I even figured out how to use it. After the rain, the sun came out to a scorching 94 degrees. We took our climbers and headed down to the river bottom. He heat was intense and we were soaked with sweat.

We were sure this afternoon would be great for hunting and filming. I was going to be the cameraman and Joey the hunter. We found a tree and Joey climbed first – another learning experience. Never let the hunter be the first up the tree when you are filming. But we were settled in and I had used the Vapor Maker to spray us and our stands down with 33 Point Buck lure and attractant.  I also sprayed the ground around the tree.

We didn’t have to wait long before we spotted three does and an 8-point about 14 inches coming down the trail. Because our scent was blocked so effectively, one of the does began feeding about a foot from the tree. The wind was swirling, but none of the deer had picked up our scent. Soon we saw him – a 135 inch Whitetail following the 8-point right to us. They were about 20 yards in front of us. 

This was perfect; I had the camera right on them just waiting for Joey to take the shot that never came.  The big buck was moving in and out around to our left.  I thought he was going to go around us when he turned and angled back toward us. But by then I had turned around so far in the tree I was about to fall out. I kept filming (I hoped) and Joey finally released the shot at about 23 yards.

We found a little blood but weren’t sure about the shot.  We didn’t know how to replay the footage (or see if I had actually gotten footage) to check the shot. Joey said there were about 7 deer within 20 yards when he got the shot off.  He said at 20 yards the buck was broadside but there were too many eyes too close to get drawn back.  We decided not to search for the deer that evening, but to head back and see if we had captured the shot on tape.

Returning to search the next morning, I literally had to crawl around on my hands and knees just to spot the tiniest specs of blood or see a footprint. When we discovered the buck, Joey had hit it a little too far back. Because of Wyoming gaming laws we had to carry the kill to a taxidermist to remove the brain stem and some other organs because of CWD, Chronic Wasting Disease.

I learned many valuable lessons during those 10 days. One, videoing a hunt requires a lot of work and planning. Using a video camera requires practice, more practice and patience, although in the end I was pleasantly surprised at how much of the footage I was actually able to use. You can check it out at my website: Vapor Trail Scents and see for yourself the beauty of Wyoming and the great deer we saw there. Secondly, I was extremely pleased with the effectiveness of The Vapor Maker and scents we had developed. This was really the purpose of the trip and I felt good about what I had filmed and discovered. All in all it was a great trip with great friends, even with Murphy.

Hello Hunting has moved up on the web site scale from being just a blog to an all access online magazine. After doing a few things new such as designing a new lay out for the site and taking on a new face lift we want to continue to grow with the community that follows. Rex Holmes Jr. from Vapor Trail Scents has talked to me on many occasions for making his web site better.

We have now teamed up with Vapor Trail Scents to bring you the first ever Hello Hunting Online Magazine. Guess what! It’s all Free! How simple can you read and how simply can we put the word “Free” in a sentence. When you see the word free you may think there is a catch to it. What if I told you that all you have to do to win a free prize from us here at Hello Hunting is read a little and post a comment at the end of any or each article that you read.

The Prize

Win a gift set from Vapor Trail Scents worth over $50. The prize includes a Vapor Maker spray bottle, one bottle of 33 point Buck lure, one bottle of Spike Horn Buck lure, and one bottle of My sheila Doe & Heat lure. This is enough scent to last you an entire hunting season.

The Rules

The rules are simple. Actually they’re so simple that there’s only two:

• Leave a comment on this post in the comment box below. It can be about yourself, the site, hunting in general, or just to say that you want some free stuff.
• Make sure you leave a valid email address in the comment box.

We’d really love for you to browse the site a bit, get involved, and leave comments on other articles. We’d even love for you to join our Facebook group. Of course, these aren’t requirements for entering the contest. We’d just love to build up our hunting community here.

The contest runs until the last day of July. We will email the randomly-picked winner once the contest is over so we can send you some free stuff.

Good Luck!