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![Ohio Bowhunter Tags a Giant Buck on a Small Property](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/25/IMG_20211021_092105_723.jpg?w=450)
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Ohio Bowhunter Tags a Giant Buck on a Small Property
![Mark Drury Arrows a Monster 216-Inch Iowa Whitetail](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/18/245167272_4655621261147413_2295759935851022802_n.jpg?w=676)
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Mark Drury Arrows a Monster 216-Inch Iowa Whitetail
![Kansas Bowhunter and Outfitter Takes a Giant 200-Inch Buck](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/17/hunter-burkhardt-breaking-news-buck-840.jpg?w=675)
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Kansas Bowhunter and Outfitter Takes a Giant 200-Inch Buck
![Reader Story: My First Buck Was This 13-Point Minnesota Giant](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/15/unnamed-1.jpg?w=338)
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Reader Story: My First Buck Was This 13-Point Minnesota Giant
![texas buck](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/15/texasbuck.jpg?w=682)
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The South (Not the Midwest) Is the Best Region for Mature Bucks
![The Weston Turner bucks were taken within 24 hours.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/12/616064acf0a5c.image_.jpg?w=806)
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Two Great Texas Bucks Tagged by New Bowhunter in 48 Hours
![Maine needs deer hunters to harvest more does.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/08/deer-1981535_1280.jpg?w=674)
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Maine Is Asking Whitetail Hunters to Kill More Does
![Sometimes you just have to make a move on a western buck.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/04/After-watching-movement-from-a-distance-the-author-rolled-the-dice-and-moved-in-tight-on-this-wester-buck.-scaled.jpg?w=338)
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8 Tips Treestand Deer Hunters Can Use to Kill Western Whitetails
![four bucks standing in a field near a wire fence](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/21/FL65UL63CRPF6BFMFUIITJEHHY.jpg?w=600)
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Learn the 10 Habits of Highly Successful Deer Hunters
![The massive South Dakota Beadle buck, in the field.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/17/242164639_4507163029347261_8828716122261052573_n.jpg?w=800)
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South Dakota Bowhunter Tags a Giant 218-Inch Nontypical Buck
![Joe Lacefield's velvet buck from Kentucky.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/15/Velvet-1-Joe-Lacefield-KY-179-scaled.jpg?w=679)
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6 of the Biggest Kentucky Velvet Bucks from This Fall
![Southwest Georgia Bowhunter Takes Rare Piebald Buck](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/14/Tara-Jackson-Lilly-768x624-1.jpg?w=554)
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Southwest Georgia Bowhunter Takes Rare Piebald Buck
![New York's current hunting laws prevents deer hunting after sunset.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06/45502977892_aaec8c36c1_o-scaled.jpg?w=675)
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New York Should Let Hunters Shoot Deer During the Best Hunting Hours
![Here is how to set up the ultimate whitetail bow.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/22/Jace-Whitetail-Nebraska-scaled.jpg?w=674)
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How to Set Up the Ultimate Whitetail Compound Bow
![You need to try different tactics for better public land success.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/12/Brodie-October-Buck.jpg?w=800)
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How to Beat the Crowds in the Public-Land Whitetail Woods
![traveling whitetail buck](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/11/john-hafner-archive_32571.jpg?w=675)
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A Rutting Whitetail Buck Traveled Nearly 200 Miles in 22 Days
![Use a decoy to get closer to big deer.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/22/Bow-Mounted-scaled.jpg?w=675)
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Can You Really Stalk Within Bow Range of a Mature Whitetail Buck?
![QDMA: Top 5 Threats to Whitetail Deer and Management](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/STC6GHQ4U77HVZQVPI5WCPHNGU.jpg?w=545)
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QDMA: Top 5 Threats to Whitetail Deer and Management
![Whitetail Tips: How to Find Your Buck After a Questionable Shot](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/QPMCQPN4LX534SLLQJPGWJUJRQ.jpg?w=594)
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Whitetail Tips: How to Find Your Buck After a Questionable Shot
![Georgia B&C buck.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/31/166764079_1051698352025413_2109324889545848662_n.jpg?w=571)
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Georgia’s Biggest Buck of the Year Is Also an All-Time County Record
![A Wisconsin bull-headed brute.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/23/V4YBP4XYNFFXZFNK4L6ULBLCZM.jpg?w=640)
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The 10 Weirdest Deer of 2020
![A closeup detail of a buck with idols.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/19/J4GJ7X327FCEHIBDAFSZ46IDOI.jpg?w=534)
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The Buck With The Hairy Eyeballs
![Two hunters kneel behind a deer and hold its head up by the antlers.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/24/AP6GKLBVN5EKBP4KOK3ZSFAGKQ.jpg?w=600)
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The 20 Commandments of Deer Camp
![A hunter kneels beside a whitetail deer.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/11/I7VD4EMEBZDSFL5XGGRYP323HM.jpg?w=600)
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The Biggest Antlered Does You’ve Ever Seen—Including a 200-incher
![The velvet antlers of a doe.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/15/I24YCUUYIJD6VCD42ASRRJPU2M.jpg?w=600)
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The 22-Point, World-Record Doe
![A trail camera photo of a buck at night.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/11/HTZ355EEZJFNPASWLOO7BSNNOE.jpg?w=600)
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Cracking the Mystery Behind Missouri’s Year of the Giant Buck
![Two hunters kneel behind a whitetail deer.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/07/MNGGO3ZJOBHELERZXOKMNDLK5E.jpg?w=600)
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Deer That Never Encounter Humans: How to Shoot a Reclusive Buck
![A group of hunters walk through rustling leaves into a tree line.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/09/P2TV5FCDARAO3LSEUQEQQ23ACA.jpg?w=600)
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These December Deer Drive Tactics Will Save Your Season
![A hunter kneels beside a whitetail deer and holds its head up by the antlers.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/09/65EBJERVOJHSRFUM65U2UOVT3Q.jpg?w=600)
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A 204-inch Iowa Bow Buck For The Ages
![A hunter holds a whitetail deer antler.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/07/GNESDPQTDRHNRJWJKPG33VKJRU.jpg?w=600)
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Is Ohio the New Best Whitetail Hunting State?
![A bowhunter holds the antlers of his archery whitetail buck.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/26/UBCFGKFLNBA7FAJCMNDOOOIES4.jpg?w=675)
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The 186-Inch Arkansas Longbow Buck with Seven Lives
![A hunter draws back on a compound bow from in the brush.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/02/U7POE2JYFRFLFGTARNAVYI7LDA.jpg?w=600)
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How to Kill Big Bucks in States That Allow Baiting…Without Baiting
![A hunter kneels behind a large whitetail buck at night.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/28/CXMR24H5MRFEJAIV3NA7X3DRYU.jpg?w=601)
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An Ohio Hunter’s First Buck May Be a Record-Book Whitetail
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