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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

By Hal Blood

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

By Katie Hill

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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

By Greg Miller

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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

By Dac Collins

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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

By Bob McNally

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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

By Greg Miller

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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

By David Zeug

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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

By Bob McNally

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

By Tyler Freel

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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

By Bob McNally

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

By David Zeug

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

By Phil H. Moore

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I Let the Biggest Buck of My Life Walk So a Kid Could Tag It

By Perry Johnson

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Disabled Army Vet Caps off a Special Muzzleloader Season with Two Big Bucks in Three Days

By Bob McNally

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Instead of Sleeping In, Brothers Stalk and Tag a 21-Point Giant on Public Land

By Bob McNally

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PA Hunters Take 3 Deer from the Same Stand on Opening Day (and One Was a Giant Buck)

By Bob McNally

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I’ve Been Hunting Deer for 40 Years. These Are the Biggest Mistakes I’ve Seen Them Make

By Ben East

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The Biggest Bucks of 2025

By Bob McNally

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How My Family Took 7 Vermont Bucks in a Single, Unforgettable Season

By Harold Willey Jr.

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Wisconsin Hunter Tags One of the Biggest Typical Bucks in State History During Extended Gun Season

By Bob McNally

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A Pennsylvania Hunter Had His “Buck of a Lifetime” Stolen. So Why Are People Blaming Him?

By Dac Collins

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Indiana Hunter Tags Giant 190-Class Buck After Watching Him for 4 Years — and Missing Him Once

By Bob McNally

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I Almost Lost My Eye While Wrestling a Buck

By Bob McNally

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The 5 Rules of Reaping Whitetail Deer

By Derek Horner

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I Shot a Big Wisconsin Buck Just Seconds Before a Young Hunter Tagged Her First Deer

By Kasey Okrzesik

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I Shot My First Buck on the Run, During a Low-Country Deer Drive

By John Wongrey

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“I Hope My Baby Grows Up to Be a Deer Hunter.” Pregnant Woman Shoots 190-Class Buck on the Last Day of the Season

By Bob McNally

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This Happened to Me: I Butchered a Deer in My Brooklyn Apartment and the Cops Came

By Alex Robinson

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Want to Kill a Great Late-Season Buck? Float a River

By Tom Huggler

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3 Incredible Stories of Snow Tracking Bucks in the Big Woods

By Hal Blood, Ralph P. Stuart

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Hunter Tags a Giant Buck Four Hours Away, Makes It Home Just in Time for Thanksgiving Dinner

By Bob McNally

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Maine Fisherman Bleats in Giant Swamp Buck While Hunting on the Ground, ‘Just Like My Grandfather Did’

By Bob McNally

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After I Shot a Deer, It Leapt on My Truck and Smashed My Windshield

By Cheyne Matzenbacher

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19 Timeless Photos from Pennsylvania’s Flintlock Season, the Last of Its Kind in the Country

Photographs by Henry Hung, Story by Derek Horner

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I Spent Thanksgiving with Southern Hunters Who Ran Deer Hounds. Here’s What I Learned

By Robert E. Price

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My Son’s First Trip to Deer Camp Was a Rite of Passage — for Both of Us

By Grits Gresham