Hunter safety experts emphasize three basic firearm rules: treat every firearm as if it were loaded, never point a firearm at ...

With the deer breeding period kicking off, bowhunters need to be on their game and take advantage of tactics to lure a nice buck or a doe to within shooting range.Here are some tips for hunting the ...

It’s the end of October as I write this, midday, and I just spotted a deer while driving home from a quick trip to town. Smack in the middle of a wide-open cut cornfield, with the sun high in the sky, ...

Near or at dark, a thick-necked 8- or IO-pointer might charge out into the field, scatter the subdominant bucks like quail and try to corral the doe. With luck, he’ll roll out of the woods under your ...

April Boggs Pope, deer biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, says these kinds of incidents are ...

When the rut heats up, hunters tend to focus more on terrain than cover. We love to spend days on end hanging out in “rut funnels” waiting for bucks to chase past us. That’s a fine strategy, but ...

Deer movement will increase this week as bucks seek out does that are nearing or entering their estrus cycle. This breeding activity boosts daytime deer movement and marks one of ...

Dr. Grant Woods with a stud buck. During the whitetail pre-rut and rut, hunters should worry less about the type of weather that will “get deer moving” and focus more on weather conditions that will ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) said its their biggest hunting season of the year.

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 ...

This story was originally published in the November 2007 issue of Outdoor Life. November is the time of year every deer hunter anxiously awaits. Throughout more than 90 percent of the whitetail deer’s ...