The Future of Deer Management

Chuck Sykes – The Management Advantage Consulting and Erich Long – Drumming Log Wildlife Management Where do you think the future of deer hunting or better yet, deer management is headed?  Erich Long, a wildlife consultant from Ohio, handles quite a bit of our management work throughout the mid-west.  He and I decided to team up […]

Prescribed Burning for Wildlife Management

Chuck Sykes – The Management Advantage Consulting and Keith Gauldin Fire has long played a vital role in the forest lands throughout the United States.  Many natural communities actually require fire to maintain themselves, not only influencing the collection and distribution of the vegetative components but the associated native wildlife species as well.  The ecology […]

Aoudad and Mule Deer Management

Chuck Sykes – The Management Advantage Consulting Casey and I spent Monday afternoon through Thursday noon at Rancho del Ceilo near Kent, TX.  Tuesday, I killed my first Aoudad at 12:15.  It took us until 5:30 to get him off the mountain.  The shot was around 400 yards.  I was on one mountain and he […]

New Air-gun Technology and it’s Use in Trapping

Chuck Sykes – The Management Advantage Consulting Like most of you, I started my outdoor career chasing the local tweety bird community around my home with a BB gun in hand.  As I grew older, the BB gun turned in .177 caliber pellet gun and larger critters like rabbits and squirrels became targets.  It has […]

Wildlife Management in Pine Plantations

Chuck Sykes – The Management Advantage Consulting With our consulting business, I have had to deal with many cases of wildlife management misperceptions over the years.    They come in a wide variety of subjects from food plot seed, harvest recommendations, to lake management.  Even though the subject matter may be different, the ideas behind […]