Whitetail

Think of the piece of public hunting ground closest to your house. You know, that property 15 minutes from town that has multiple trucks in the parking lot every weekend throughout deer season. As you drive by, you probably think to yourself, “How could that property possibly be worth hunting? There...

At its core, deer hunting is a numbers game. Stay at it long enough and you’re bound to have an encounter. During the rut, buck movement increases, and so do your odds. But a few slow sits, missed opportunities, or unseasonably warm days can mess with your head. If you’re not careful, you’ll...

The path to cracking the code on a mature whitetail buck is a convoluted, ever-changing riddle. It’s the cat-and-mouse puzzle that stokes our fires and keeps bruiser whitetails on our minds year-round. We can study moon phases, changing food sources, barometric pressure, alternating feed-to-bed...

I propped my bow against a water oak and unbuckled my pack, letting it drop to the ground. I wasn’t worried about spooking deer anymore. The first and only shooter buck I’d seen in nearly two weeks had just rocketed to the next county. The sun beamed overhead, and I wriggled my water bottle free...

Jody Dalton killed a massive whitetail with his bow in Wyoming County, West Virginia, on Nov. 6, 2020. He speculated it would beat the current state record of 188 ⅞ inches but needed to wait 60 days to get an official score. On Jan. 13, 2021, official scorers measured the buck at West Virginia...

Here’s a tragic reminder that wearing blaze orange and knowing your target are so important. Last week during Ohio’s week-long rifle deer season, a father accidentally shot and killed his son during their annual hunting trip in Delaware County. The incident occurred while the father-son duo was...

Hunter Weber of Buckley, Illinois, makes the rounds scouting for deer almost every day in November. Despite spending tons of time observing whitetails during the rut, he witnessed something last weekend that he’s never seen before. In an encounter that lasts just over a minute, a young whitetail...

If the video doesn’t play, follow this link to YouTube to watch. Chris Evans, a whitetail hunter from Illinois, could hardly believe what his trail cameras captured last weekend. In an October 17th photo and October 18th video, a zombie-like deer with an enormous wound passes through his property...