Editor’s note: This column first appeared Saturday, Nov. 15 in The Trailhead, a free email newsletter featuring Penn’s Woods coverage of Pennsylvania’s great outdoors on lehighvalleylive.com and ...

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

Beaten, bruised, and a bit smarter than it was on opening day, the old buck slowly moves from his bed. The sun just set, but he’s not anywhere close to a big field yet. Keeping it in low gear, the ...

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 ...

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 deer breeding season, or rut, makes early November the best time for archery hunting in Pennsylvania. Bucks are more active during the day this time of year, often found near does in areas with ...

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...

Every fall, the woods of Arkansas are alive with excitement as white-tailed deer begin the rut, their yearly mating season. Normally ghostlike in the woods, bucks throw aside their caution, striding ...