After the chaos of the peak rut, the deer population undergoes a noticeable shift. Most does have been bred, and bucks are no ...

The large, racked bucks you've been seeing in the fields — yeah, they may be gone now that hunting season has arrived.

Now, as antlers are done growing and nearing the time for velvet shedding (usually around Labor Day), those largest bucks, the alphas, are apt to be caught on trail cams while on the move on a buck ...

Bowhunters and youth hunters have been putting down some bruisers across the Midwest. It’s truly amazing how much change has occurred in buck harvests over the past 20 years. So many more bucks are ...

A game camera took a nice photo of the buck that Willy Johnston wanted, but camera bucks seldom turn up during a hunt.

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed ...

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Jim Zumbo makes the case that when whitetail deer hunters get too obsessed with antler score, we miss the point.

The final week of the pre-rut is here and the bucks are increasingly active during daylight. With the final days of October slipping by, the time of year that every whitetail hunter dreams of is at ...

The peak of archery season is underway as deer are moving more now than any other time of the year. Here's what you need to know.

As crazy as it may sound, midsummer is the perfect time to set a trap for a fall big-buck encounter by making mock scrapes. Most deer hunters associated scrapes with pre-rut hunting, but in my ...

Brett Nauerth finally notched his tag on the buck he'd nicknamed "Texas Red" after having three close encounters with the ...