Hunting

The rut is a special time for South Carolina deer hunters. For most, it’s the prime time to get the drop on a trophy buck. It’s the one time of the year when the monster bucks let their “survival” guard down just a bit and make mistakes they normally don’t make, enabling hunters to harvest big deer that otherwise are too stealthy or have simply become nocturnal. […]

Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions. […]

The scene could have been taken directly from a 1980s Vietnam-era war movie, only in this case, the unsuspecting victim wasn’t a soldier, but a respectable 8-point whitetail buck, and the backdrop was the shoreline of Lake Hartwell, not the Mekong Delta. […]