Hello, this is James Austin, president of Elk Publishing, Inc.
I would like to thank you all for participating in Neil’s WO Nation blog.
We here at the WO Nation have a big surprise for you.
The whole time this blog has been running, we have been building www.whitetailsonlynation.com, the premiere social network for the passionate deer hunter.
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Elk Publishing, the producer of Whitetails Only and Outdoors Magazine needs your help.
“We are looking for several trophy pictures of whitetails to use in the new magazine,” said publisher James Austin. “They can be trophy shots, trail-cam pictures, live whitetails, pictures of scrapes and rubs… anything having to do with the white-tailed deer.”
Send pictures via email to amanda@elkpublishing.com
or via parcel post to:
Outdoors Magazine
531 Main Street
Colchester, VT 05446.
Elk Publishing reserves the right to publish all submissions. Photo submissions may be posted online, and many will be used in the magazines. The publisher reserves the right to reject any entry deemed to be in poor taste. Monetary compensation will NOT be provided for any submissions.
By Craig Dougherty
The last 5 years have seen an absolute explosion in trail camera popularity, and for good reason. They are not only cool and fun to use but when used correctly they can dramatically increase your chances of scoring in the field.
We’ve been using scouting cameras for almost 15 years on our farm and I can honestly say we would be lost without them. Back in the day of film cameras we used them like most hunters did. We’d load them up with film, put them on a bait station or deer trail, and hoped to catch a good buck on film.
Basically, we were judging a beauty pageant, hoping to cover the cabin bulletin board with big-buck pin-ups. The trouble was, each and every time we hit the woods we were stinking up the place with man-scent and the big buck photos got scarcer as the season moved on. When we finally concluded we were scaring more big bucks than photographing, we put them on the shelf and started saving money on film and developing photos.
Scouting cameras have come a very long way since then. Today’s cameras are high-tech digital affairs capable of incredible accuracy. They don’t alarm deer and are capable of storing hundreds of images on a single digital chip. They record date, time, temperature, moon phase and the Red Sox /Yankees scores. They range in price from a hundred bucks or so for your basic models to a thousand or so for remote location setups which let you check out what’s going on from your office or I-Phone.
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Text and photography by R.G. Bernier
As I sat in the restaurant enjoying a fine cut of rib-eye, oblivious to the din of chatter going on around me, ignoring the various aromas commonly associated with an eatery, my pallet was drinking in all of the allure associated with a steak practically melting in my mouth. When suddenly, without warning my senses were immediately heightened with a much different, but extremely pleasant odor. It was not the stylish dress, nor was it the attractiveness of the female that passed my table that caused me to take notice; it was the scent that she was casting. Not an overpowering perfume, but certainly one that got my attention as it lingered in her wake. Scent is a powerful substance that plays a vital role in its influence; and none more so than in its effect on both whitetails and those that pursue this animal.
The Whitetail’s Nose
Before we can decide how best to use a scent or if it is even practical or necessary, we first must understand how a deer’s nose works. And let me assure you, his olfactory gland is far superior to ours. By way of a comparative, the nose of a deer has up to 297 million olfactory receptors, dogs have 220 million with humans limiting out with just five million. A whitetail’s life is governed primarily by its nose; the scents that it smells plays a vital role in its decision making process.
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