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

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This 11-Year-Old Shot a Giant Velvet Buck on Her Birthday

A 207 7/8-Inch Whitetail Rack Was Hiding in a Basement for Decades. Now It’s Officially the Second Biggest Buck of All Time

By Scott Einsmann

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Deer Hunters Should Avoid These 7 Types of Rubs and Scrapes

By Josh Honeycutt

How a Kentucky Lineman Arrowed a 200-Inch Buck on Opening Day

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Is the South the New King of Whitetail Country?

By Josh Honeycutt

One Lucky Shot Saved This Deer Hunter from Being Mauled By a Mountain Lion

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Shot the Heaviest Buck Ever Taken in Maine. Then the Controversy Started

By Horace R. Hinkley

Whitetail Deer Hunting

13 Massive Drop-Tine Bucks That Made Hunting History

By Josh Honeycutt

Watch: Serial Poacher with 174 Violations Is Confronted by Game Wardens. Now There Are Warrants Out for His Arrest

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Here’s What All Deer Hunters Should Know About Acorns and Oaks

By Colin Moore, Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

10 Things Hunters Think Spook Deer, But Usually Don’t

By Josh Honeycutt

Whitetail Deer Hunting

How to Kill Big Bucks in States That Allow Baiting — Without Baiting

By Tony J. Peterson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Mysterious Backstory of the Ahrens Buck — a World-Record Whitetail That Vanished

By Mark LaBarbera, Stephanie R. Boyle

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Where to Hunt Deer in the Big Woods — Tips from a Maine Whitetail Legend

Whitetail Deer Hunting

What Do Deer Actually Eat? These Are a Whitetail’s All-Time Favorite Foods

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Backstory on Why the Mitch Rompola Buck Was Never Entered as a World Record

By Richard P. Smith

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Inside the Mind of Dan Infalt, the ‘Big Buck Serial Killer’

By Josh Honeycutt

Bowhunting Shot Placement 101: Where to Aim on a Deer

By Scott Einsmann

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Early Season Is Often Your Best Chance to Tag a Mature Buck. Here’s How to Make the Most of It

By Alex Robinson, Bob Humphrey, Tony Hansen, Craig Dougherty

Whitetail Deer Hunting

10 Secrets for Hunting Buck Rub Lines, from the Deer Hunter Who First Revealed Them

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Truth About Rope Scrapes, One of the Most Useful Tactics in Whitetail Hunting

By Natalie Krebs

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 50 Places Where Big Bucks Actually Live

By Josh Honeycutt

Whitetail Deer Hunting

What It Feels Like to Miss the Biggest Buck of Your Life at 45 Yards — With a Rifle

By Natalie Krebs

Mule Deer Hunting

Do Hunters Really Need to Wear Camouflage? Here Are the Colors Deer Can See

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Deer Hunters Should Be Making Mock Scrapes Right Now. Here’s How to Do It

By Josh Honeycutt

Mule Deer Hunting

We Hunted a Giant Mule Deer Buck on a Remote Island

By PAUL W. GARTNER

These 2 Record Whitetail Bucks Changed Bowhunting Forever

By Jeff Murray, Michael Pearce

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Experienced Whitetail Hunters Don’t Care About Score. Here’s How to Estimate a Buck’s Age — and Why It Matters

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

35 Nuggets of Deer Hunting Wisdom to Read Before the Season

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

These Two Brothers Shot Stomper Velvet Bucks During One of the Earliest Whitetail Hunting Seasons in the Country

Whitetail Deer Hunting

What Data on 2,000 Blood Trails Tell Us About Broadheads, Shot Placement, and Deer Tracking

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Forget Trail Cameras and Feeders. Try Hunting Wilderness Whitetails the Old Way

Whitetail Deer Hunting

10 Weird Deer Hunting Tactics That Actually Work

By Josh Honeycutt

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Traditional Mock Scrape Setup Still Brings in Big Bucks. Here’s How to Build It

By Bob Fratzke, as told to Glenn Helgeland

Whitetail Deer Hunting

15 Secrets for Patterning a Big Buck Before the Season

By Josh Honeycutt

We Moved to Alaska to Live Off the Land — and It Was a Lot Tougher Than I Expected

By V.A. EBERHART

Whitetail Deer Hunting

A Return to Market Hunting Would Be a Reckless Solution for Overpopulated Deer Herds

By Natalie Krebs

This Deer Hunting Tool Is Better Than a Corn Pile and It’s Probably in Your Garage

By Scott Einsmann

I Thought Calling Deer Was a Joke. But Then Bucks Came Charging In

By Norbert M. Ellis

Mule Deer Hunting

Are You Stoked for Your DIY Western Hunt? Here’s What the Podcasters and Influencers Aren’t Telling You

By Alex Robinson

Mule Deer Hunting

In the Good Old Days, We Hunted Giant Summer Mule Deer High in the Rockies

By PETER BARRETT

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Took Jack O’Connor on His Last Hunt

By Jack Atcheson Sr., as told to Jim Zumbo

I Deer Hunted with Babe Ruth. He Tagged a Nice Buck and Wrestled a Cow

Mule Deer Hunting

I Tried Teaching My Duck Hunting Buddy to Bowhunt. A Dozen Blown Stalks Later, He Surprised Me

Every Farmer and Hunter Had a Story About the Elusive White Buck. Here’s How I Finally Caught Up to Him

By Dale Johnson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Giant Nontypical Northwoods Buck Was Found Hanging in a Wisconsin Cabin. It’s Backstory Remains a Mystery

Mule Deer Hunting

O’Connor in Old Mexico: My Luckiest Day of Deer Hunting — Ever

By Jack O'Connor

I Shot a Deer So Big I Genuinely Thought I’d Killed an Elk

By Sidney Mawson

Mule Deer Hunting

“You Can’t Eat Antlers.” One of the Biggest Bucks Ever Taken in Colorado Was Nearly Lost to History

By Arthur Hawthorne Carhart

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Mushrooms Are a Deer’s Secret Favorite Food. Here’s How to Easily Grow a Mushroom Food Plot

By Natalie Krebs

Mule Deer Hunting

It Was Supposed to Be the Toughest Deer Season in Years. We Hunted Anyway

By Andrew McKean

How My Decision to Embrace Traditional Bowhunting Has Shaped Three Generations of Family

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Video: How the Hunting Public Mastered Deer Drives

By Roy Holdford

Things My Fellow New Yorkers Say When They Find Out I’m a Hunter

Mule Deer Hunting

My Stepson and I Tagged Out at the Same Time. My Buck Was One of the Biggest Ever Taken in Colorado

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Milo Hanson, the Saskatchewan Farmer Who Tagged the Biggest Buck of All Time, Dies at 81

By Andrew McKean

‘This Season It Was My Turn,’ Says Canadian Hunter Who Tagged a 200-Class Buck from Behind a Hay Bale

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Here’s Why the .223 Remington Is the Most Underrated Deer Cartridge

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘Whitetail Adrenaline’ Changed Everything We Knew About Hunting Mature Bucks from the Ground

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags a Giant Buck with His Flintlock. It Should Become a New State Record

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Sharpshooter Is Fined $10,000 After Deer Culling Violations

Mule Deer Hunting

I Watched the Glory Days of Mule Deer Hunting Rise, Then Slip Away. I’m Still Hopeful for What Comes Next

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Just Wanted to Shoot a Nice Buck. I Ended Up Fighting a Shark

By Phil H. Moore

I Hunted Coues Deer in Mexico’s Cartel Country

By John B. Snow