Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...

JARED SCHEFFLER’S ideal archery shot on a whitetail buck is either quartering to or facing head-on. He hunts exclusively from the ground. Scheffler shoots a longbow, and he uses heavy arrows that are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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Buck rubs can present a real head-scratcher for whitetail hunters. Some argue that rubs only tell you where a buck has been once. It’s like reading a history book, but not the sort of sign that ...

When you think about what it takes to be a successful whitetail guide, it’s a wonder they even exist. It’s their job to make the big-buck dreams of perfect strangers come true over and over again, all ...

Outdoors columnist Tom Lounsbury is pleased to see the recent change for firearm deer hunting starting in the fall of 2026.

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Michigan deer hunting changes in 2026 and 2027 include new season dates, firearm rules and a one-buck limit in the Lower ...

When Darrell Spencer and Matt Norton talk about their deer camp, that's exactly what they mean. Each November, during Minnesota's firearms deer season, they paddle and portage into the Boundary Waters ...