It’s been a long wait. But September is finally here, which means early bow seasons have started or are about to start across the county. And that means the annual whitetail rut—the peak event of most ...

In this viral footage from Connecticut, deer hunter Nick Brisson recorded two deer fighting in the middle of a pond.

It’s the end of October as I write this, midday, and I just spotted a deer while driving home from a quick trip to town. Smack in the middle of a wide-open cut cornfield, with the sun high in the sky, ...

You've waited all year for this — the whitetail deer rut. You spent the spring hunting shed antlers. You spent summer glassing red-coated bucks with bulbous velvet antlers. You endured the October ...

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 ...

The guys were on me a bit, back in October, just before Halloween. Even interrupted their card game. “So, where’s the rut?” “Stinks out there.” “Ain’t no deer no-how.” “Might as well play golf.” And ...

Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to deer.

Although the whitetail deer rut is over throughout much of America, plenty of giant bucks are still available, and some hunters believe the post-rut time is perhaps the best of all for tagging a ...

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

Though the deer season for modern firearms began last Saturday statewide, many of Alabama's best whitetail hunters won't get serious about hunting for several more weeks. That's because those who make ...

Hunters should see an unusually high number of bucks running with doe through the first week of the season, Oak Duke writes.

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 ...