According to the National Deer Association, during the 2023-2024 hunting season, U.S. hunters successfully harvested more than 3 million whitetail bucks, thus establishing a new record for mature buck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The peak rut can be challenging, but by hunting the right spots where you expect to find traveling bucks or a buck with a doe, you ...

Editor’s note: This column first appeared Saturday, Nov. 15 in The Trailhead, a free email newsletter featuring Penn’s Woods coverage of Pennsylvania’s great outdoors on lehighvalleylive.com and ...

No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

Every fall, the woods of Arkansas are alive with excitement as white-tailed deer begin the rut, their yearly mating season. Normally ghostlike in the woods, bucks throw aside their caution, striding ...

When deer hunting and snow covers the ground, I often forego typical stand hunting and instead trust my hunting instincts, senses and reflexes (but mostly my camouflage), and still-hunt. A still-hunt ...

The deer breeding season, or rut, makes early November the best time for archery hunting in Pennsylvania. Bucks are more active during the day this time of year, often found near does in areas with ...

Tabor Oman with a good buck from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Submitted photo The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard ...

It’s that time of year. Buck rubs are on trees and scrapes on the ground are apparent. Experienced bowhunters know the deer rut is beginning.

The first real cold sit of late season can feel like a fresh start, but it often exposes every... The post Late-season deer mistakes that happen after the first cold sit appeared first on The Avid ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...