Whitetail

August might as well be "drive around and look at deer" month. The long, warm evenings are the perfect time to hop in the truck, roll the windows down, and start scanning the fields with your hunting buddy or a good dog riding shotgun. Maybe the kids tag along and point out every cow like it might...

Saddle hunting has quickly evolved from a niche tactic to a mainstream method of chasing whitetails, especially for mobile-minded hunters seeking stealth and efficiency. The system’s lightweight, minimalist nature allows hunters to access hard-to-reach areas with less noise and more versatility than...

You might be a pro at ambushing whitetails from a tree, but ground hunting in open country presents a whole new set of challenges. When it comes to drawing your bow and not getting busted, you don’t have a ton of room for error. If you’re familiar with K.C. Smith and Tyler Jones of the Element crew...

We used to kill trophy bucks. Now, we harvest mature bucks. The game hasn’t changed a whole lot, we just softened up the messaging to be more palatable to the general public. The truth is, we are all about big antlers and always have been. And, that’s okay. I’m sure whoever figured out they could...

Jason Kline has been hunting a once-in-a-lifetime whitetail in northwest Ohio for the last four seasons. That pursuit came to an end this weekend when Kline finally got his hands on the buck’s rack—but it wasn’t the conclusion he hoped for. Kline found the long-expired buck while shed hunting on...

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...