Posts by Dennis V. Gilmore Jr.

I was 13 when I found out some female deer have antlers. That day, I was tagging along with my uncle on a deer hunt on family property in Vermont. With a stick of pepperoni in my pocket and a belly...

Three groups want to help a fawn survive; animal lovers, deer hunters, and coyote hunters. Each of these groups has rules and codes they live by, i.e.: Don’t move an ”abandoned”...

Being able to field score a buck quickly is the most crucial skill a deer hunter looking for a record-breaking slammer of a buck can possess. There are facts you can learn, estimates you can make,...

Few hunters ever learn how to score a buck correctly. If you are a new deer hunter, texting your buddies, and bragging, it’s a point count. Somewhere along the way, you hear about two other ways to...

Many deer hunting stalks end with buck snorts and fleeing deer. The sudden noise and movement in the once quiet and peaceful woods startle the deer hunter. The momentary confusion caused by the...

If deer whistles for cars worked, they would save 140 human lives yearly, 65,000 deer-vehicle collisions would be avoided annually just in New York state, and nearly one billion...