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 ...

It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it’s usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whitetail buck in a grassy field. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a ...

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

Arkansas whitetails held Andrew Conley scoreless for nearly four quarters, but two quick strikes in the waning moments salvaged his season. Conley, of Cave Springs, hunted one 10-point buck in St.

The Department of Natural Resources on Feb. 25 summarized the 2025 Wisconsin deer hunting seasons, including a 7% higher ...

The end of the calendar year means that most of America’s deer seasons have also come to an end. And as we close out 2025, it’s a good time to look back on some of the biggest and best deer hunting ...

A Pennsylvania hunter harvested a 15-point buck and a black bear one year after a 30-foot fall from a tree stand. Lucas Storrs had been tracking the "buck of a lifetime" for two years before ...

This story, “The Trophy Trap,” was originally published in the November 2006 issue of Outdoor Life. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ...