Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...

T.J. Rempel is the first to admit he’s no diehard trophy hunter. “I’m not the guy who dreams of giant whitetails when my head hits the pillow,” he told Field & Stream. “The smell of smoked backstrap ...

Dustin Huff killed the biggest typical whitetail ever recorded in the U.S. not on a food plot in Iowa or a riverbottom in Kansas, but on a hog farm in Indiana. The 27-year-old Hoosier tagged the deer ...

Hunting and killing a mature whitetail buck is hard. Repeating the feat, season after season, is really hard. And when your hunting season isn’t working out the way you planned, it can get pretty ...

If my math is correct, the regular big game season opens in just a couple or so weeks. On that day, tens of thousands of hunters will take to the fields and woods in search of excitement and with the ...