Deer Hunting(Page 2)

The best deer hunting tips and strategies for whitetails and mule deer.

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A whitetail buck in a grassy field.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Why Trophy Deer Hunting Is a Trap

A bowhunter with a huge, 34-point Missouri buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Missouri Bowhunter Ends 3-Year Quest for ‘Cactus Jack,’ a 34-Point Buck

A Maine hunter in blaze orange and a green check coat with a nice buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘I Laughed, I Cried.’ After 36 Years, North Woods Hunter Finally Tags His First Deer

By Natalie Krebs

Illustration of a hunter aiming a rifle at a deer in the snow.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Legendary North Woods Deer Tracker Is the Last of His Kind

By Gerry Bethge

A buck approaches cover

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Whitetail Tactic Most Hunters Abandoned — and Why It Still Works

A big Ohio buck photographed with a cellular trail camera.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio Crossbow Hunter Sees a 190-Class ‘Mega Buck’ on Camera — and Tags It That Afternoon

the general sheds

He Bought the World Record Whitetail Sheds for $1 Million — Then Found Out They Had Been Tampered With

By Alex Robinson

A young hunter with her first buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Kindergartener’s First Deer Is a Huge Droptine Buck

A black man in hunters camo holds a rifle.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I’m an Immigrant, a Veteran, and Finally… a Hunter

By Ron Taylor, as told to Natalie Krebs

A hunter with a big Oklahoma buck.

Oklahoma Hunter Tags His Biggest Buck Yet — from the Ground

An illustration of a hunter in a blue jacket leaning out a barn window to shoot a deer.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Drove 180 Miles to Hunt Deer. The Biggest Buck of My Life Lived Behind My Barn

By Harold Brigham

A hunter and his buddy with a big Missouri buck.

Louisiana Bowhunter Drives 9 Hours North to Tag a Giant Buck After a Rainstorm

A hunter with a Pennsylvania buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Tracked a Buck for 36 Hours to Find a Game Warden Had Already Taken the Antlers

A mule deer buck in the desert with a sunrise.

Mule Deer Hunting

I Passed on the Biggest Mule Deer of My Life

By Mark Sullivan

A bowhunter admires a big Iowa buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Public-Land Hunter Says This Huge Iowa Buck Is ‘the Pinnacle of His Bowhunting Life’

A dead buck that was infected with EHD.

When EHD Hits Deer Paradise a Hunter Is Left to Make Sense of the Devastation

By Andrew McKean

A bowhunter with an 8-point buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tags His Target Buck After Watching It for 6 Years on Trail Cameras

A deer hunter with a big buck from Indiana.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Indiana Hunter Tags a Dandy 12-Pointer, Then Hauls the Buck Out in a Canoe

An illustration of an old-school hunter rattling

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Was Rattling Really Born in Texas? The Untold Story Behind the Favorite Tactic

By Hart Stillwell

An illustration of a man and a buck falling down a snowy hillside.

Mule Deer Hunting

I Work Hard for All My Deer. This Buck Humbled Me

By Andy Russell

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kentucky Hunter Tagged This Massive Buck After Receiving a Cell Cam Photo and Driving Through the Night

spooky trail cam photos

Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Eerie Trail Camera Photos You Can’t Unsee

By Josh Honeycutt

A black and white photo of a crossbow set as a trip wire.

Game Warden Tales: I Hunted Down a Trip-Wire Crossbow Poacher

Whitetail Deer Hunting

27 Bad Excuses Why You Didn’t Kill a Buck Last Year

By Will Brantley, Tony Hansen

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘His Antlers Grew 40 Inches.’ Kansas Hunter Arrows Massive Nontypical Buck

A whitetail deer makes a scrape on the edge of a field.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Where to Kill a Buck This Weekend: Target These Key Food Sources and Scrapes

By Derek Horner

A buck scent checks a doe.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 9 Best Deer Stand Locations for Hunting the Rut

By Michael Hanback

Skinning a deer in a skinning shed.

Don’t Toss Out Your Deer Hides. Here’s What to Do With Them Instead

A Missouri bowhunter with a buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

College Kid Plays Hooky and Arrows a Huge Missouri Buck with 3 Main Beams

An illustration of a man kneeling in the snow over a fire.

This One Stupid Decision Nearly Cost Me My Life on a Maine Deer Hunt

A bowhunter with a rare piebald buck taken in Ohio.

‘Just Like Clockwork.’ Ohio Bowhunter Tags a Rare Piebald Buck He’d Been Seeing On Trail Cams for Years

Columbia Blacktails Are the Toughest Deer to Hunt

By Scott Haugen

Deer rubs side by side in the dark and with UV lights.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Rubs and Scrapes Glow Like ‘Highway Reflectors’ to Deer, New Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a buck running through the woods and a hunter aiming at it.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Went Looking for a Lost Hunter, and Found the Big Buck I’d Been Tracking All Season

B&W photo of hunter with deer in trunk

I Spent 5 Years Bowhunting One of the Biggest Nontypicals Ever. Then My Buddy Killed Him

A hunter with a big droptine buck taken in Ohio.

This Buck Outsmarted Me for 3 Seasons. One Change Finally Gave Me the Chance I Needed

An illustration of a grizzly mauling a man with a wooden rifle in Alaska.

I Ignored My Gut Feeling and Went Hunting with Buddies Anyway. Then a Bear Almost Killed Me

By Larry Mueller, Marguerite Reiss

An illustration of deer hunters

Whitetail Deer Hunting

We Invited a 13-Year-Old on His First Deer Hunt. He Ended Up Teaching Us a Few Things

An Oklahoma hunter with a big buck with lots of points in the back of a wagon

I Shot the Biggest Buck of My Life with a 10-Year-Old Crossbow and Just One Arrow to My Name

An illustration of a hunter in a pine tree about to shoot a 250-inch buck.

The Hunt for the Jameson Buck, a 250-Inch Legend That Lived in an Old Strip Mine

By Michael Pearce

Mitch Stamm Buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Self-Films His Hunt for a Buck with an Insanely Wide Spread

A scratched up Winchester 94 and some loose rounds lay against some old wooden boards.

Jack O’Connor on America’s Number One Sporting Rifle — the Winchester 94 in .30-30

By Jack O'Connor

A screenshot of AI YouTube hunting personality

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Meet Kayla, the Sexy AI-Generated Huntress Telling You How to Hunt Deer

By Alex Robinson

A young hunter with a huge Indiana buck tagged on opening day.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

My 8-Year-Old ‘Kept His Cool’ When This 180-Class Buck Bedded in Front of Us

Two photos of a big wisconsin buck with tons of mass.

Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows Giant 16-Point That Was ‘Much Bigger a Few Years Ago’

An illustration of a bull elk

How My Wife and I Bought 5 Big-Game Tags and Pulled Off the Western Hunt of a Lifetime

By Robert Merchant

Mule Deer Hunting

The Legend of Old Crooked Horn, the ‘Biggest Buck in Utah’

By Lew Littleton as told to Jim Zumbo

A bowhunter kneels behind a big buck in Wisconsin.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Tags 20-Point Buck While Sneaking into His Stand at Dawn

Two hunters drag a deer in a sled in the back yard of their suburban home.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Photos of a Surreal Day in the Life of Suburban Deer Hunters

Photographs by Greg Kahn, story by Natalie Krebs

A photo of Ed Koberstein with his big Alberta typical buck.

The Hunt for the Ed Koberstein Buck, a World-Record Contender That Lost After a Scoring Mixup

A re-colorized image of Ted Trueblood in a plaid hunting jacket looking at the mountains.

Mule Deer Hunting

Why You Should Always Talk to the Game Warden, According to Ted Trueblood

By Ted Trueblood

A buck dead from EHD in Ohio.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio’s EHD Outbreak Worsens as Officials Consider Tag Cuts and Hunters Ask for Even Tighter Restrictions

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Is Your Wild-Game Processor Shorting You on Venison?

By Alex Robinson

whitetail deer hunting

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 20 Biggest Myths in Deer Hunting

By Michael Hanback

A photo collage of a drone operating deer tracker amid an EHD outbreak.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘Death Is in the Air.’ This Drone Pilot and Deer Tracker Is Uncovering Mass Whitetail Die Offs

By Alex Robinson

whitetail drone research

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: This Thermal Drone Project Is Revealing the Surprising Behavior of Mature Bucks

By Alex Robinson

A photo illustration of four vintage photos scattered on a table.

Mule Deer Hunting

Most of My Buddies Weren’t Tough Enough to Hunt Velvet Bucks at 13,000 Feet

By Charles Elliott

A man carries a deer on his back

I Hiked Too Far While Hunting Early-Season Deer and Lost My Mind from Heat Stroke

By George H. Gibson

butchering deer

9 Expert Butchering Tips to Make Processing Wild Game Easier

By Alex Robinson, Natalie Krebs

public land scouting

Whitetail Deer Hunting

5 Hard Truths About Scouting Public Land (and How to Overcome Them)

By Alex Robinson

A deer feeder sits on the edge of a clearing.

Mississippi Told Hunters They Could Bait on Public Land This Fall. The Only Problem? It Was a Complete Hoax

A man gets thrown from his horse with a covered wagon

My .30-30 Winchester Is Better Than Your Fancy Rifle

By Francis H. Ames

A vintage illustration of hunters in red check.

Mule Deer Hunting

There Were 38 Other Public-Land Hunters Camped by Me. I Tagged a Buck Anyway

By Chester Chatfield

Alex Robinson packs out sheep with one of the best hunting backpacks.

Mule Deer Hunting

The Best Hunting Backpacks, Chosen by the Editors