Spencer Hartings tagged the rare whitetail on a piece of private ground, where he'd been watching the buck on trail cams for ...

Jack-o-lanterns and whitetail deer have something in common because Halloween is the key timeframe when the whitetail rut in ...

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

Calling deer can be an effective way to bring bucks to your stand, even though there isn’t the same instant gratification usually associated with calling ducks or turkeys. Deer aren’t nearly as vocal ...

There are two types of deer hunters, those that are humble and those that are about to be humbled, writes Oak Duke.

Just when Forrest Hodges thought his deer season couldn’t get any better, it did. On Sept. 28 — opening day of the current statewide Managed Lands Deer and Archery Only whitetail seasons — the 37-year ...

The best deer hunters in the nation (known and unknown) all share a common thread. They are students of deer and the woods, and they never stop learning. As such, they continually experiment with new ...

If you want to harvest a big, mature buck, Mississippi is the place to hunt. Year after year, Mississippi has been recognized by the Quality Deer Management Association, now the National Deer ...

Peak breeding season, ‘the rut,’ is one of the periods South Carolina hunters look forward to. That gives them the best ...

The National Deer Association's 2025 Deer Report shows a nationwide increase in the harvest of mature bucks. Oklahoma now leads the nation with 85% of its buck harvest being mature, surpassing ...

and no signs of a huge whitetail — no big tracks, massive rubs or huge scrapes. Still, the attraction of this buck, and his mystique, seemed to build with each passing week. There probably isn’t a ...