Deer Hunting (Page 4)

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

Latest in Deer Hunting

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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Derek Horner

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 9 Best Deer Stand Locations for Hunting the Rut

By Michael Hanback

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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

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

‘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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Natalie Krebs

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

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

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

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

By Larry Mueller, Marguerite Reiss

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

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

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

By Michael Pearce

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

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

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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

Photographs by Greg Kahn, story by Natalie Krebs

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

Mule Deer Hunting

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

By Ted Trueblood

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

The 20 Biggest Myths in Deer Hunting

By Michael Hanback

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Alex Robinson

Mule Deer Hunting

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

By Charles Elliott

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

By George H. Gibson

9 Expert Butchering Tips to Make Processing Wild Game Easier

By Alex Robinson, Natalie Krebs

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Alex Robinson

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

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

By Francis H. Ames

Mule Deer Hunting

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

By Chester Chatfield

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Myth of the Iron Deer: Our Legendary Shooting Editor Explains Why Simply Choosing a Bigger Cartridge Is a Bad Idea

By Jim Carmichel

Mule Deer Hunting

I Built the Ultimate Deer Rifle

By John B. Snow

Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Expert Field Dressing Tips That Will Make Gutting a Deer Much Easier

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Where to Hunt Deer: The 5 Best Whitetail States for DIY Hunters

By Alex Robinson, Derek Horner

Best Tree Stand Harnesses of 2026

By Alice Jones Webb, Phil Bishop

Pennsylvania Officially Repeals Its Centuries-Old Ban on Sunday Hunting

I Killed the Buck That No Other Pennsylvania Deer Hunter Could

By Raymond E. Miller, as told to Jim Hayes

I Shot the Biggest Pennsylvania Archery Buck on Record

By Andy Getsy with Jim Hayes

Whitetail Deer Hunting

29 Reasons Why Your Food Plots Suck

By Josh Honeycutt

‘I’m Stupid, Yes,’ Says Wisconsin Man Who Tried to Claim a 49-Point High-Fence Deer Was a State Record

By Natalie Krebs

After My Dad Died, I Hunted Our Farm One Last Time — and Killed the Best Buck of My Life

By Andrew McKean

Mule Deer Hunting

Carmichel in the Backcountry: A Packtrain Pileup, Quick Shooting, and a Trophy Buck

By Jim Carmichel

Alabama Is Auctioning Off 5-Year Hunting Leases on Some of Its Public Land

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Tennessee Legalizes Baiting During Deer Season — for an Extra $50 Fee

By Alice Jones Webb

A Hunting Personality Is Suing a Game Warden, Claiming Bogus Bait Charges Ruined His Reputation

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 5 Most Controversial Trophy Bucks in Recent History

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

A Wisconsin Bowhunter Killed the Biggest Buck He’d Ever Seen. Then He Gave It to Another Hunter

By Alice Jones Webb

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Claims Record Deer Populations and High Harvests, But CWD Trouble Looms

By Alex Robinson

Mule Deer Hunting

I Fell in a Hole While Packing Out My Buck in a Storm. This Old SOS Trick Saved Me

I Killed Ohio’s Biggest Nontypical Buck on My First Deer Hunt

By Chester Veach, with Bill Thomas

Whitetail Deer Hunting

What Are the Keys to Managing for Bucks with Bigger Antlers?

By Andrew McKean

How I Still-Hunted the Second Biggest Buck Ever Tagged in Missouri

By Jeffrey A. Brunk

This 49-Point Buck Was Promoted as a New State Record. Critics Say It Was Pen Raised

Whitetail Deer Hunting

30 Years Later, Kansas Officially Certifies 200-Inch Archery Buck as the New State Record

By Natalie Krebs

Tevis McCauley, the Infamous Kentucky Whitetail Heaven Outfitter, Has Been Arrested as a ‘Fugitive from Justice’

By Natalie Krebs