By Dave Hurteau

Yesterday, I put up a post asking a simple question: “Who Is Your Least Favorite Celebrity Deer Hunter?”—which apparently touched a nerve. Far more than the average Joe, celebrity hunters represent all of us and our sport to the larger public. If it is fair to ask what practices and characteristics we like them to portray (essentially, who’s your favorite?) then its likewise reasonable to ask what we don’t want them putting forward (essentially, who’s your least favorite?).

By Dave Hurteau

Over the years, I’ve edited hundreds and hundred of whitetails stories, many for special sections of the magazine, including some fantastic stuff that many readers have never seen. Why, I thought, shouldn’t you see them here?

And so I’m instituting How-To Thursdays. I will currycomb my files and pick the very best of our past, often-limited-release, how-to stuff, and post it right here, starting with an ingenious way to store and carry rattling horns from F&S Whitetails columnist and fellow blogger, Scott Bestul.

By Dave Hurteau

Just for you, Walt. (Isn’t it nice to be influential?) But also for anyone who wants a good wrist sling but doesn’t want to pay $20 to $25 for it, here is an excellent three-part video from Project Bow on how to make one yourself with common materials for about $3. Here's Part I. If you just want a very simple sling, you can skip the cobra-weave portion (Part II).

By Dave Hurteau

Here’s a hypothetical: You’re motoring down the highway when doe bounds from the roadside grasses. You jump on the brake pedal, but it’s too late. After pulling your smoking rig off the blacktop, you see that there’s nothing to do for the doe—but a rustle in the grass reveals a just-born fawn. It can’t be more than hours old, and is utterly helpless. What do you do?

Leave it? Or help it?