Scent Bombs
A few 35mm film canisters with cotton balls and your favorite sent make great scent bombs to place around your stand. They seal tight and travel well.
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GENERAL INFORMATION The whitetail deer is one of the best known and easily recognized large mammals and can be found throughout North America. Other members of the deer family found in North America include the elk, moose, caribou, mule deer and blacktail deer.

DESCRIPTION The whitetail deer is a large animal which varies quite a bit in size, depending on the particular subspecies (there are 30 recognized) and the region where it is found. The adult whitetail deer's weight averages from about 100 to 350 pounds. Mature males are generally larger than the females. The whitetail is an ungulate, or hoofed animal, with each foot ending in a cloven or two piece hoof. The under parts of the deer's body are white with a white patch on the throat and another smaller band of white around the nose. The underside of the tail is also white. The upper body parts are colored reddish brown during the warmer months but in the fall, whitetail deer molt into their winter coats of dark, grayish brown. For several months of the year, male whitetail deer, known as bucks, are easily recognized by the presence of antlers on their head, which the females, known as does, lack. Once in a great while female deer (doe) will also have antlers. Deer Antler growth usually begins during the month of March or April, by August or early September, antlers are fully-grown. Deer antlers are among the fastest growing tissues known to man. Growing at an average of 1 to 2 inches per week during development. Growing antlers are covered with a living tissue called velvet. During development, the deer’s antlers are very delicate. This is the time when most antler damage or breakage occurs. Velvet is shed or rubbed off by the buck as he rubs saplings with his antlers. After the breeding season, bucks will shed their antlers. Antlers are usually shed in January or February. Antler shedding usually occurs earlier in northern states than southern states. A new pair of antlers will start growing in the spring.

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GENERAL INFORMATION The mule deer is a member of the cervid (deer) family. Its coat is reddish in summer and some kind of blue-gray in winter which blends much better with the snow-covered landscape than the reddish color. The mule deer of the Rocky Mountains region have a whitish rump patch. Their creamy-white ears are a quarter again larger than those of the whitetail deer and their tails have a black tip. They grow to a height of up to 3 - 3.5 feet Males weigh between 125 - 400 pounds, females between 100 - 150 pounds When alarmed, both bucks (males) and does (females) snort. The males utter a guttural sound during rutting season and, seldom heard, does and fawns (the young) utter a bleat. Mule deer young (the average is 2, but it can be just 1 or even 3), born between June and July just after the does have reached the summer range, are spotted and able to walk a few minutes after birth. It takes about a month until they are able to run with their mothers.

HABITS AND HABITATS The mule deer is considerably larger than the whitetail, its body is heavier and its legs are stocky and less trim than those of its whitetail counterpart. When something alarms the animal it seems to be changing into a completely different animal: it becomes graceful and alive when, with its head held up high, it starts to run off, making impressing leaps as high as 8 feet. It can reach a speed of up to 35 miles per hour that it can keep up for a few minutes. Although they look less aggressive than elk they are well able to stand their ground when facing predators like coyotes. With their hooves they may badly hurt or even kill such an aggressor. The rutting season begins around October and lasts until about December. The bucks, whose necks swell during the rut, are polygamous and can gather a small harem around them. The males grow symmetrical, branched antlers that are shed between January and February. But rather than using their antlers in actual fights they do more bluffing than for example the whitetail deer. Mule deer are most active during dawn and dusk or in moonlight nights. During the heat of the day they rest and oftentimes you can see beds of matted grass indicating that this is mule deer habitat. They can be spotted alone or in small groups and are more gregarious in winter. While bucks lead a rather solitary life except during mating season, the does form small groups and, in winter, get together in larger groups to spend the time on a winter range, which is the same year after year. The mule deer is a browser and feeds on shrubs and twigs but also on grass and herbs. They prefer coniferous forests, desert shrubs, chaparral, grassland with shrubs as their habitat. In mountainous regions they migrate to higher elevations in spring and come back down in fall. They tend to follow definite trails, especially in winter.

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All hunters must also purchase the basic license for $73.50 in addition to the Kansas deer hunting tag. These licenses are for the calendar year rather than the season meaning the same tag purchased for spring turkey season may be used for fall whitetail season. Whitetail Units
Nonresident tags are by a draw with preference to those not having drawn the previous year. Contact the Wildlife and Parks Department (620-672-5911) before the end of May and have an application mailed or one may be printed from their website. The application and check ($321.50) must be returned before the end of May. By late June, early July tags are issued. Residents may purchase tags over the counter except for the Mulie units that are a draw. All hunters with or without a draw tag, may purchase up to four antlerless tags (unit dependent) over the counter. Recent draw success rates have greatly varied over the last couple of years due to increasing number of non-resident applicants and increasing number of tags made available by the state. Buddy tags are available for up to four hunters that, if drawn, will be able to hunt the same unit. Land for sale in Kansas. To purchase, see links above to the left.

HABITS AND HABITATS Blacktails tend be shier than most other species. When faced with danger, they would rather hide than fight. Blacktails also form smaller groups, but interestingly, these groups are composed of both sexes. Thus, bucks and does must recognize and accept each other, which is atypical behavior for a whitetail.