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The 10 Best Stand Locations for Hunting the Whitetail Rut

By Josh Honeycutt

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Here’s Why a Deer’s Sense of Smell Is So Much Better Than Yours

By Natalie Krebs

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Wisconsin Crossbow Hunter Stalked Into Range of This Monster 214-Inch Buck

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9 Deer Diseases Every Hunter Should Know About

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The 287-Pound South Carolina Whitetail That Almost Outsmarted a Legendary Deer Hunter

By Archibald Rutledge

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‘A Buck Like This One Is Special.’ Bowhunter’s 17-Point Florida Deer Is Actually a Giant

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How Long Do Whitetail Deer Live?

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The Best Deer Hunting Cartridges of 2026

By John B. Snow

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8 Surprising Ways That Whitetail Deer Communicate With Their Tails

By Tom Carpenter

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The Truth About Big Bucks and Bad-Tasting Venison

By Jack Hennessy

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Maryland Crossbow Couple Doubles on Big Bucks the Same Evening

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‘Nets Are for Fishing.’ Here’s Why Many Hunters Don’t Want to Have Their Trophy Animals Officially Scored

By Andrew McKean

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11 Giant Whitetail Bucks That Still Have Mysterious Backstories

By Josh Honeycutt

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How to Rattle in a Buck, Based on Whitetail Deer Research

By Alice Jones Webb

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Do Deer Really ‘Jump the String?’ Here’s What All Bowhunters Should Know

By Alex Robinson

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Compound Bowhunter Tags 22-Point Velvet Buck Before His Wife Could Get a Shot With Her Recurve

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Ohio Farmer Tags 231-Inch ‘Flyer’ Buck That He Missed Two Years Ago

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Solving the 65-Year Mystery of the Jordan Buck, the Second Biggest Whitetail Ever Killed in America

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How I Beat Bowhunting Buck Fever and Snapped My Big Buck Losing Streak

By Scott Einsmann

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How to Hunt Swamp Bucks

By Josh Honeycutt

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

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Deer Hunters Should Avoid These 7 Types of Rubs and Scrapes

By Josh Honeycutt

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Is the South the New King of Whitetail Country?

By Josh Honeycutt

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

By Horace R. Hinkley

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13 Massive Drop-Tine Bucks That Made Hunting History

By Josh Honeycutt

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

By Colin Moore, Alex Robinson

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

By Josh Honeycutt

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

By Tony J. Peterson

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

By Mark LaBarbera, Stephanie R. Boyle

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

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

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

By Richard P. Smith

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

By Josh Honeycutt

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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

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

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

By Natalie Krebs

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The 50 Places Where Big Bucks Actually Live

By Josh Honeycutt

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

By Natalie Krebs

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

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

By Josh Honeycutt

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These 2 Record Whitetail Bucks Changed Bowhunting Forever

By Jeff Murray, Michael Pearce

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

By Alex Robinson

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35 Nuggets of Deer Hunting Wisdom to Read Before the Season

By Alex Robinson

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

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

By Alex Robinson

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

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10 Weird Deer Hunting Tactics That Actually Work

By Josh Honeycutt

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

By Bob Fratzke, as told to Glenn Helgeland

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15 Secrets for Patterning a Big Buck Before the Season

By Josh Honeycutt

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

By Natalie Krebs

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I Took Jack O’Connor on His Last Hunt

By Jack Atcheson Sr., as told to Jim Zumbo

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

By Dale Johnson

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

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

By Jack O'Connor

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

By Sidney Mawson

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

By Natalie Krebs

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

By Andrew McKean

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Video: How the Hunting Public Mastered Deer Drives

By Roy Holdford

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

By Andrew McKean

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

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

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

By Alex Robinson

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

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