Near or at dark, a thick-necked 8- or IO-pointer might charge out into the field, scatter the subdominant bucks like quail ...

Might you be placing too much faith in November’s deer breeding party? We are here to persuade you to concentrate your ...

There are other ways to make your long-duration rut sits more comfortable, too. If you’re a coffee drinker, load up a Thermos ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed.

Last mid-May I pulled off the blacktop, up a dirt road. Whoa! Brake! There, blocking my way, were two spindly-legged newborn fawns. Their mother stood off to the side in the tall grass and brush, like ...

As the whitetail rut is experiencing its first peak here in the Northeast and Midwest, in early November, questions arise. It is a fact that whitetails around the country experience different Rut ...

Not much more than a generation ago, asking a Texas deer hunter, "When does deer season open?" got a standard, immutable response: "First Saturday in November." Ask that same question today, and the ...

There, blocking my way, were two spindly-legged newborn fawns. Their mother stood off to the side in the tall grass and brush, like a statue. “Great chance to get some photos,” I thought. After ...

Back in 1984 I was hunting deer with a bamboo longbow, and homemade gobbler-fletched arrows. I remember well that year’s nine-point buck and the blood trail splashed vividly on sugar maple leaves ...