Whitetail Deer Hunting(Page 3)

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A hunter with a 20-year-old Georgia doe.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This 20-Year-Old Georgia Doe Might Be the Oldest Deer Ever Killed in the State

A Massachusets hunter with a big buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Middle-School Teacher Tags the Biggest Typical Buck Killed in Massachusetts in a Decade

A nice Ohio buck with a unicorn antler.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘I Hadn’t Shot a Deer All Year.’ Hunter Tags Unicorn Buck in the Final Days of Muzzleloader Season

A hunter with a big Kansas whitetail buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Army Vet Gets His First Whitetail Buck on Last Day of the Season, and It’s a 19-Point Giant

Whitetail Deer Hunting

16 Deer Hunting Mistakes You Won’t Make Again Next Season

By Josh Honeycutt

A Kansas rifle hunter with a big elusive buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kansas Soldier Ditches His Tree Stand and Tags Elusive ‘Ghost’ Buck from the Ground

whitetail does in snow

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Chronic Wasting Disease Still Confounds Researchers. But Some Important New Clues Have Emerged

By Christine Peterson

A photo of CJ Alexander with huge Ohio deer with text overlaid.

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Podcast: What We Should Learn from the Craziest Poaching Case of the Year

By Alex Robinson

A hunter with a tall-tined illinois buck.

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Illinois Hunter Shoots 184-Inch Buck While Sitting in a Lawn Chair

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck

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Indiana Bowhunter Used a Spreadsheet to Help Kill This 184-Inch Buck

An older whitetail buck, bedded

Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Ways Old Bucks Behave Differently Than Younger Deer

By Josh Honeycutt

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Rookie Crossbow Hunter’s First Buck Is a 200-Class Nontypical Monster

pennsylvania buck

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Podcast: What We Get Wrong About Whitetails, with Jeff Sturgis

By Alex Robinson

A big 10-point buck in the back of a UTV.

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Kansas Farmer Tags What Could Be One of the Top 5 Archery Bucks Ever Taken in the State

Freel and Miller Drag a Buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Hunter Amnesia: What It Is, and How You Can Avoid It

Ashley Matchett and Chris Janeski

Whitetail Deer Hunting

On Her First Successful Deer Hunt with Her Husband, Hunter Shoots a Super Wide Pennsylvania Buck

A man holds up the rack of a large 14 point whitetail buck as the sun sets behind him.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Tyler Jordan Tags a 200-Class Louisiana Buck That Could Be the New State Record

By Alice Jones Webb

An Oklahoma bowhunter with a 17-point buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

An Oklahoma Bowhunter Heard Rumors That the 180-Class Buck He’d Been Hunting for Years Had Been Hit by a Car. They Weren’t True

Two whitetail shoulder mounts hang on a white wall.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

A Son Finally Tracked Down His Dad’s Long-Lost Buck. It’s the Biggest Typical Whitetail Ever Killed in Kansas

By Alice Jones Webb

A bowhunter in the woods with a nice buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tries a Closer Setup, Draws on a Huge Buck While Surrounded by Does

Learning how to skin a deer is relatively easy, all you need is a sharp knife.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

How to Skin a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter with a big Pennsylvania buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags a 170-Class Public-Land Buck on a Family Deer Drive

late season whitetail

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Tips for Patterning and Hunting a Late-Season Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big Indiana buck.

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Bowhunter Tags the Biggest Buck of Her Life in Indiana While Hunting a New Spot

An Ohio hunter with a buck he tagged during the rifle opener.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio Rifle Hunter Makes His Second Shot Count, Tags a 22-Pointer on Opening Day

A college freshman with his first bow buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

College Student’s First Bow Buck Is a 17-Point Kansas Slammer

A hunter with a rare-looking buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Teen Tags ‘Unicorn’ Buck on His Second-Ever Solo Hunt

A trail cam photo of a buck in Kansas.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kansas Bowhunter Arrows 200-Class Buck That Was a Local Legend

A hunter with a buck loaded into a truck bed.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

After 200 Hours of Bowhunting, Wisconsin Hunter Finally Sees His Target Buck on Opening Day of Gun Season

A hunter holds up a buck with stickers on its rack.

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Hunter Tags Two Back-to-Back Bucks from the Ground in North Carolina

colorado whitetail

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Podcast: Real Talk About Deer Cartridges and Bullets

By Alex Robinson

A teen hunter with a big Ohio buck.

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Teen Tags Buck with 5 Drop Tines She and Her Sister Had Watched for Weeks

A bowhunter with a 16-point buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Bleats in 16-Pointer and Kills It with a 20-Year-Old Bow

Mark Drury with a giant whitetail buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

13 Advanced Deer Hunting Tactics from the Experts

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big buck in Illinois.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Illinois Bowhunter Was ‘In the Right Place at the Right Time’ to Tag 185-Inch Buck

A Florida hunter and his buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Florida Hunter Tags 187-Inch Buck While Watching the Gators Game

whitetail buck bed

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Should You Hunt a Buck’s Bedding Area During the Rut?

By Josh Honeycutt

Hunter with very large deer

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground

By Alex Robinson

A buck on a tailgate.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Veteran Arrows Giant Ohio Buck from the Ground After Getting to His Stand Late

A deer hunter with a big Illinois buck in CRP grass.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Illinois Crossbow Hunter Stalks a 195-Inch Buck Through a Cornfield

An illustration of a boy and a buck face to face.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Looks That Kill: Using a Deer’s Curiosity to Your Advantage

By J. Frank Dobie

A hunter with a buck in front of a red shed.

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Watch: Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows 14-Pointer on Public Ground He’s Hunted for 30 Years

A bowhunter sitting crosslegged in a field beside a big buck

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Veteran Climbs Out of Tree, Stalks and Arrows 19-Point Kansas Buck on Army Land

Side-by-side photos of a black bear approaching a fresh deer carcass and then dragging it into the woods.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Video: Hunters Watch a Black Bear Steal Their Deer Without Putting Up a Fight

A buck scent checks a doe.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 15 Best Spots for Hunting the Peak Rut, Ranked

By Josh Honeycutt

A hunter touches a dead deer on the back..

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Q&A: How New Deer Hunters Think About Guns, Butchering, Old-School Hunters, and Their First Kill

By Natalie Krebs

Two hunters, one in blaze orange, kneel behind a dead doe.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: How to Help New Hunters Shoot Their First Deer

By Natalie Krebs

harvest does during the rut

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Should You Harvest Does During the Rut?

By Derek Horner

hunter hanging a tree saddle platform on a tree

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Pros and Cons of Mobile Hunting the Rut

By Josh Honeycutt

A 7-year-old hunter and her dad with a bear, turkey, and buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

7-Year-Old Earns a Pennsylvania ‘Triple Trophy’ After Tagging a Black Bear, Buck, and Gobbler This Fall

By Natalie Krebs

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Podcast: Secrets for Tagging a Mature Buck (and Not Totally Blowing It)

By Alex Robinson

A buck in a field during the rut.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

When and How to Use a Grunt Tube to Call in Deer

By Charles J. Alsheimer, Michael Hanback, Natalie Krebs

An illustration of the ahrens buck

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The Mystery of the Ahrens Buck, a World-Record Whitetail That Vanished

By Mark LaBarbera, Stephanie R. Boyle

Giant Drop Tine Deer That Made Whitetail Hunting History

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Giant Drop Tine Deer That Made Whitetail Hunting History

By Josh Honeycutt

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Iowa Bowhunter Jared Mills Captured One of the Best Self-Filmed Whitetail Hunts of All Time

james johnson buck

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Podcast: Advanced Trail Camera Strategies for Hunting Mature Bucks

By Alex Robinson

Deer in states like Maine have been found to have high levels of PFAS in their meat.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Maine Warns Hunters to Throw Out Deer and Turkey Meat After Tests Reveal High Levels of Forever Chemicals in Some Areas

By Alice Jones Webb

A crossbow hunter with a giant Ohio buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio Crossbow Hunter Finally Tags 200-Class Target Buck After 8 Encounters in 6 Days

A hunter with a buck taken in Virginia.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘I Know He Was with Me.’ Virginia Hunter Tags 20-Point Buck with His Late Father’s Bow

october deer hunting

Whitetail Deer Hunting

10 Reasons Why Late October Is the Best Time to Tag a Big Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

bronson strickland

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: Secrets of GPS Collared Bucks with Dr. Bronson Strickland

By Alex Robinson

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Crossbow Hunter Tags Legendary Kentucky Buck in Daniel Boone National Forest

Michael Hunsucker sets up a Dave Smith deer decoy on private land in Iowa.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

How to Decoy in Deer: Tips from the Pros

hunt the pre-rut

Whitetail Deer Hunting

How to Hunt Deer During the Pre-Rut

By Josh Honeycutt