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Deer tracks on a snowy tree-lined trail.
How To, Nebraska Nature

Winter Wildlife Tracking

By Monica Macoubrie Winter is normally a time for hibernation. Sleeping five to sometimes nine months out of the year, animals will lay coiled up and cozy in an underground burrow, a pile of leaves or, as humans do, under a heated blanket in our beds. The negative temperatures, face-stinging […]

A European deer mount.
How To, Hunting

The Lazy European Mount

By Jeff Kurrus While I’m quite fond of traditional white-tailed deer shoulder mounts, European mounts — showing just the skull and antlers — are a spectacular alternative. For my first European mount, I removed the head and as much hair as possible, boiled the “stuff” attached to the skull on […]