"Stand hunting" or "taking a post" can become a very chilly proposition, if not downright cold especially when the ...

Here are ten essential tips to elevate your December deer hunting game. Look for areas with standing crops, acorns, or any ...

Hunters can use moon phases, temperatures and sunlight hours trying to determine when a deer will rut, but it's much simpler than that. “When will the rut occur this year?” It’s one of the most ...

If there’s anything deer hunters can agree on, it’s that we love to argue. There’s plenty to debate: scent control vs. hunting the wind, treestand vs. saddle hunting, compounds vs. crossbows — the ...

For Upstate whitetail deer hunters, the rolling of the calendar into December signals the fourth quarter of what has arguably ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...

When it’s fall in Massachusetts, the red maples ignite with color, there’s a sharpness in the air, and a rite of passage eons old begins in the woods. It’s rut season—the annual white-tailed deer ...

You can’t say the words “deer season,” and not count five Ss — OK, not in those words, but in the things most successful deer hunters you encounter know and practice every year. Scouting, scent, ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...

The prospects for deer hunters filling that buck tag in New York state this year have never been better, even though the tag itself has not only changed … but like a whitetail in the woods … poof, in ...

Late each fall, Pennsylvania’s forests and fields come alive with one of nature’s most dramatic events: deer rutting season. Whether you’re a wildlife watcher, hunter, or just curious about the ...