A majority of the public lands available to hunt whitetails in the North, South, and East are made up of tracts of forests—rather than the farmlands of the Midwest. In my opinion, the Appalachian region gives you the best opportunity to get away from the crowds and find adventure for that reason...

Most tech-savvy whitetail hunters know the basics of how to locate and e-scout public land from the comfort of their homes. But finding the best of the best spots is an entirely different matter. If studying deer habitat on aerial maps is e-scouting 101, then finding public parcels that offer truly...

With whitetail seasons wrapping up across much of the country, one of the  questions I get most often is when to start the scouting process. This inquiry is most common among newer hunters. Growing up in a traditional Northern Michigan deer hunting family, I was trained early on that the time for...