Nebraska Trophy Whitetail Hunting - Private, Public, or an Outfitter

 

Located in the Midwest, Nebraska offers a variety of trophy whitetail hunting opportunities, including whitetail deer. Spread throughout the state in the river bottoms, sand hills, agricultural fields and pine ridges, Nebraska’s landscape offers food, cover and shelter resulting in a large deer population. Deer hunters from around the nation travel to Nebraska every fall in search of deer.

 

 Nebraska Trophy Whitetail - Outfitter

Geography

1. The highest concentrations of whitetail deer in Nebraska can be found in the river bottoms and surrounding agricultural fields. Nebraska Game and Parks controls the deer population by splitting the state into deer management units. Each deer management has a specific quota intended to manage the overall population and quality of bucks.

Regulations

2. Nebraska whitetail hunting seasons open on September 15 with an archery season, followed by several management hunts in October. The management hunts, taking place between October 2 and 11, allow you to harvest antler-less deer with any weapon. An eight-day firearm season occurs in November with a muzzleloader season taking place during the entire month of December. Before hunting a specific season, you must purchase the appropriate deer permit, habitat stamp and have proof of hunter education.

Considerations

3. The rut, or breeding period, typically takes place during the November firearms season and is one of your best opportunities for shooting a deer. Be ready to use a variety of hunting methods based on the time of year, weapon and surrounding terrain. Use a tree stand or ground blind positioned along travel routes or feeding areas during the early archery season. During the muzzleloader season in December, the deer will be focused on feeding after the rut to prepare for the winter. Look for deer to enter the agricultural fields as they feed.

Public Land, Private or an Outfitter

4. If you are interested in a do-it-yourself hunt, Nebraska offers several public land hunting opportunities, however, less than two percent of the state is available for public use. The most productive public areas are wildlife management areas and walk-in areas. Current maps can be obtained through the Nebraska Game and Parks. However using an outfitter often will put you where the deer are.

Potential

5. Realtree, a camouflage and hunting company, ranked Nebraska as the ninth best whitetail hunting state for a record book buck. Seven of the top 10 counties--Otoe,Gage, Sarpy, Lancaster, Douglas, Cass, Nemaha and Pawnee--are all in the southeast corner. The other three counties include Dakota, Lincoln and Clay.

Deer Hunters Free Bucks With Antlers Locked Together

Hughesville, Mo -- A deer hunting party armed with ropes and a battery-powered saw began tracking their quarry on Jan. 21 with hopes of helping two large white-tail deer live.

The night before, two bucks were spotted on Alan Meyer’s farm with their antlers locked together, about 12 miles north of Sedalia in the Hughesville area. They apparently became entangled during a fight, exhaustion and starvation their apparent fate.

But Meyer, along with family and friends, began tracking the two deer in the snow. They didn’t want to see animals they respect suffer.

“Quite a few us, we’ve all deer hunted together, and everybody just wanted to see them turned loose,” he said.

Luckily, they snow help them track the bucks.

“Sometimes the tracks were jumbled,” Meyer said. “At other times, you could hardly tell anything was wrong and they were walking side by side.”

They found the tangled 8- and 10-point bucks, but the deer ran from the rescue party, crashing through a few fences and at one time being astraddle a fence with antlers locked.

The deer fell down a few times and the hunting party tried to put a rope around their rear feet to hold them still, but the deer managed to get up.

Finally, the deer fell and Blake Meyer and Aaron Clark grabbed the bucks’ rear legs and stretched them out. The weary deer then lay still. Gary Clark used a portable battery-powered saw to cut off a main beam from one buck’s antlers. It was enough to free the deer. The dazed bucks staggered away from one another and quietly walked their separate ways into the brush.

Also helping to track and hold the deer down were Ryland Chamberlain, Trent Templeton, Justin Thomas, Jason Chamberlain and Dustin Meyer of Pettis County.

Alan Meyer, 54, said there was a time or two when the party thought they might have to kill the deer to end their suffering.

“But we stayed with it and got ‘er done,” he said. “It was a once in a lifetime experience.”

Outdoor Nebraska Fall 2010 - Nebraska Game & Parks

Over 400 Inches Of Antlers - How Would You Tag And Score Them?

Ohio DNR found these 3 deer stuck together from fighting, over 400 inches of antler the biggest was 165 inches. So lets say you come up on these deer while you are hunting here are some questions you might ask yourself. Which one do I Shoot? How will they score IT or Them? Do I get to keep them all?

Over 400 Inches Of Antlers - How Would You Tag And Score Them?

Ohio DNR found these 3 deer stuck together from fighting, over 400 inches of antler the biggest was 165 inches. So lets say you come up on these deer while you are hunting here are some questions you might ask yourself. Which one do I Shoot? How will they score IT or Them? Do I get to keep them all?