Daniel Schmidt

1 month ago | deeranddeerhunting.com | Daniel Schmidt

#147: “NATURE WILL FIX CWD!” with Dr. Christopher Seabury | Deer Talk Now Podcast The nation’s leading chronic wasting disease scientist explains how left-wing political scare tactics have gotten in the way of curing the problem. VIDEO

1 month ago | deeranddeerhunting.com | Daniel Schmidt

Check out this crazy antler configuration. This shed antler, found in Wisconsin, features a hardened bulb at the end of the main beam. The bulb, which about the size of a small apple, also features several holes that go into a small cavity inside the hardened bulb. What would cause such a thing? Well, the most common causes for holes in antlers are through the work of parasites. In fact, most holes you see in antlers are from the work of the botfly larvae, which starts as an internal parasite.

2 months ago | deeranddeerhunting.com | Daniel Schmidt

No doubt about it, antler shed hunting is nature’s Easter egg hunt. When the snow leaves the landscape, it pushes eager hunters and whitetail fanatics out to the woods in search of the bony crowns that eluded them last fall. We all know that whitetail shed their antlers every year, but did you know that one simple living cell is responsible for our annual pilgrimage to find sheds? What Causes Deer to Shed Their Antlers? It’s true, and that cell is the osteoclast (Greek for “bone” and “Broken”).

2 months ago | deeranddeerhunting.com | Daniel Schmidt

The mule deer species dates back just 10,000 years to the last Ice Age, but did you know modern Americans knew nothing of it until relatively recently? It’s true. The first description of the mule deer was written by Capt. Merriweather Lewis on May 10, 1805, about eight months after the “new” deer species was discovered by Lewis & Clark scout George Drouillard.

Oct 17, 2024 | deeranddeerhunting.com | Daniel Schmidt

If you have followed Deer & Deer Hunting’s rut predictions long enough, you’ll know that moonlight isn’t what drives the impressive accuracy of our annual Whitetail Rut-Predictor. While perfecting his algorithm with Vermont biologist Wayne Laroche, Charles Alsheimer discovered it was how the second full moon after the autumnal equinox coincided with the rut’s timing. This correlation was nothing new.