Whitetail Deer Hunting

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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

By Dac Collins

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’

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter with an 8-point buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

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

By Bob McNally

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

kentucky buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

spooky trail cam photos
Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Eerie Trail Camera Photos You Can’t Unsee

By Josh Honeycutt

a buck in rut
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Will Brantley, Tony Hansen

kansas buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

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

A Missouri bowhunter with a buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

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

By Bob Cary

B&W photo of hunter with deer in trunk
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Al Dawson

A hunter with a big droptine buck taken in Ohio.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

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

By Jim Moore

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

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

By Bob McNally

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

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

By David Zeug