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Photographs of the best bucks of 2025 on a bulletin board
Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Biggest Bucks of 2025

By Bob McNally

An illustration of two deer fighting in front of a doe.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Harold Willey Jr.

A Wisconsin hunter and a huge typical buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

A photo of a buck in a snowy field.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Dac Collins

An Indiana hunter with a big buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

A hunter gored by a buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Almost Lost My Eye While Wrestling a Buck

By Bob McNally

The author with a nice whitetail deer reaped with his bow and decoy.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 5 Rules of Reaping Whitetail Deer

By Derek Horner

A Wisconsin hunter with a big buck on opening day; a young hunter with he first deer, also tagged on opening day.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Kasey Okrzesik

A hunter in blue overalls sits behind a tree looking at a deer in this illustration.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By John Wongrey

allyson rosier buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

“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

illustration of hunter answering door
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Alex Robinson

an old photograph of a hunter in a yellow canoe with a nice buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Tom Huggler

tracking deer
Whitetail Deer Hunting

3 Incredible Stories of Snow Tracking Bucks in the Big Woods

By Hal Blood, Ralph P. Stuart

A hunter holds up a big Virginia buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

A rifle hunter with a giant Maine buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Bob McNally

doe lies on ground next to truck with broken windshield
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Cheyne Matzenbacher

A Pennsylvania flintlock rifle with a compartment in the stock.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

Photographs by Henry Hung, Story by Derek Horner

An old color photograph of two deer hunters in Mississippi.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Robert E. Price

A kid's first deer hunt in a Louisiana swamp in the 1960s.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Grits Gresham

A crossbow hunter with a 14-point velvet buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

This 16-Point Velvet Buck Is a New Maryland State Record

By Bob McNally