After the chaos of the peak rut, the deer population undergoes a noticeable shift. Most does have been bred, and bucks are no longer consumed with chasing them. Instead, bucks begin transitioning back ...

A big deer walks out of the thick stuff, eases down the trail, and stops broadside just 20 yards away. He scans the surroundings, sniffs the air, and lip curls for good measure. You loose an arrow and ...

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

The big-racked, muscled-up brute crashes through cover. Operating like a pedigreed cutting horse, he carves out two rival bucks and sends them packing for distant hills. Quickly, he returns to the ...

The rut gets all the attention when it comes to big bucks hitting the dirt, but let’s be honest; during the frenzy of the breeding season, with deer running willy nilly through the woods, a lot of ...

Seth Sorrell had been watching the buck he'd nicknamed "Possum" for four years. He tagged the buck during rifle season in ...

It was the heart of the breeding season one fall when I shot a nice buck in the act of rubbing a tree. I didn’t pay much attention to this at first. But when it happened a second time, I realized that ...

There is no doubt that by now most of the deer in your hunting area have become quite reclusive after being hunted for two ...

Matt Knox won’t soon forget that morning he spent in a treestand the second week of last year’s muzzleloading deer season. By the time he climbed out of his stand at 10:30 a.m. he had seen eight ...

size confirmed that this was no ordinary Pennsylvania whitetail. Then, the heavy-racked buck was there. Once I had a clear view of him, he was already within my range. I had just enough time to draw ...