Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...

JARED SCHEFFLER’S ideal archery shot on a whitetail buck is either quartering to or facing head-on. He hunts exclusively from the ground. Scheffler shoots a longbow, and he uses heavy arrows that are ...

Alright, whitetail hunters, you’re up. As you head into the woods this season for white-tailed deer hunting, keep some of this information in your back pocket. Like whitetails themselves, whitetail ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in Wisconsin. Steven Loomans of Madison shot the buck on the final day of the metro ...

It’s easy to think that the grass is greener somewhere other than Ohio. We can’t spot an elk up a mountain in Ohio. Or land a giant tarpon after a short boat ride. But when it comes to whitetail deer, ...

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When realtor Brian Ruesch discovered a giant nontypical shoulder mount in a Wisconsin home, he bought it and set out to ...

I wasn’t going to shoot either deer. Nor did I want to risk spooking one and send it huffing and puffing through the deep woods just as my hunt got started. So I eased the rifle down, leaned against ...

What a difference a day makes. Take today, September 1st. Yesterday it felt like summer, and now it feels like deer season, or at least the preseason. And what’s a preseason without predictions? There ...

The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far beyond a legislative vote. The species reflects a long history of recovery ...