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 ...

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 ...

Spring has come and gone. The days of summer are growing shorter and shorter, which means that the fall hunting seasons are just a few days away. The aspen will soon be naked skeletons, and an ...

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 ...

Late-season deer hunting isn’t easy anywhere — no matter where it’s done or how good the hunting property is, says Ronnie “Cuz” Strickland, a member of the widely-viewed Mossy Oak “Hunting The Country ...

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

It's early November, that time of the year in the world of the white-tailed deer when love is in the air. Amorous bucks are seeking does, and reproduction is on their minds. Hunting deer during the ...

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 ...

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A full moon can be a significant challenge for elk hunters. Courtesy of Elk101.com As elk hunters, we don’t always have the luxury of hunting elk during the “prime” week each season. Even if we are ...

Cellular trail cameras really are fantastic tools for researching a local deer herd and their habits. Last December on public land in Manatee County, at a time when the peak of the rut had been over ...