It's early November, that time of the year in the world of the white-tailed deer when love is in the air. Amorous bucks are seeking does, and reproduction is on their minds. Hunting deer during the ...

The rut gets all the attention when it comes to big bucks hitting the dirt, but let’s be honest; during the frenzy of the breeding season, with deer running willy nilly through the woods, a lot of ...

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If there’s anything deer hunters can agree on, it’s that we love to argue. There’s plenty to debate: scent control vs. hunting the wind, treestand vs. saddle hunting, compounds vs. crossbows — the ...

A heavy-racked buck beds down for the day. Wind sweeping from behind, and eyes scanning down below, danger has little chance of finding him before he detects it. After all, that’s why the buck picked ...

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 ...

The peak of the rut might be behind us, but deer season is far from over. In fact, late-season hunting brings its own set of challenges and opportunities. As bucks wind down from their breeding frenzy ...

Few things get a bow hunter's blood pumping like the sound of a feisty buck grunting, trashing, and antler-raking saplings, crashing branches, pawing up leaves like a bull, chasing does and ...