There are two types of deer hunters, those that are humble and those that are about to be humbled, writes Oak Duke.

Buckle your safety belts, and keep your bow in hand. The time of year deer hunters dream about is upon us. The midpoint of ...

Meanwhile, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November here in the Northeast and the Midwest in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” This season, unlike last year, the ...

A whitetail hunter is always up for the mating season. The rut, as it's called, is a short window of opportunity exercised by the deer and the sportsmen alike. For the buck, a few weeks of November ...

Now, as antlers are done growing and nearing the time for velvet shedding (usually around Labor Day), those largest bucks, the alphas, are apt to be caught on trail cams while on the move on a buck ...

A Minnesota hunter and his wife try to track down a young hunter in the Superior National Forest, and also find a big buck to ...

Jack-o-lanterns and whitetail deer have something in common because Halloween is the key timeframe when the whitetail rut in ...

Right now for pronghorn bucks in Wyoming, it's like closing time at the bar. They're hot and heavy and looking for action to ...

Every fall, the thin air of Colorado‘s high country is thick with drama as deer go into rut—the annual deer mating season. It’s a time when Colorado’s white-tailed deer bucks lose their usual caution, ...

A photo of a beautiful buck brings a reminder of the rut nearing, Illinois trout season opens on Oct. 18 but stocking is ...

The best deer hunters in the nation (known and unknown) all share a common thread. They are students of deer and the woods, and they never stop learning. As such, they continually experiment with new ...