Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The peak rut can be challenging, but by hunting the right spots where you expect to find traveling bucks or a buck with a doe, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual ...

ON A BITTER November afternoon, my neighbor Alan wrapped up his 15-year-old son, Tanner, like Ralphie’s kid brother in A Christmas Story, then put a muzzleloader in his hands and led him to a blind ...

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 friend recently told me about an amazing event that occurred while he was hunting in the Ouachita Mountains. From his stand, he saw five bucks pursuing a single doe. The bucks seemed completely ...

If you’re an archery hunter in Pennsylvania, now is the best time of the year. Deer are entering their breeding season, known as the rut, which means bucks are busy chasing off smaller bucks and ...

Teal season opened on Sept. 20, and a regulation change shortened the season. It now closes on Sept. 28. The bag Limit is still six, however. But hurry. Archery only season opens next Saturday, Sept.

Almost every deer on the farm is on its feet. Bucks and does of all ages are hammering food sources. They’re hungry after the rut, but there’s also a snowstorm incoming. Temps are dropping, and ...

Stumbling across a fresh rub or scrape in the woods gets any hunter's heart racing. These territorial markers have long been ...

In the back of my mind I always wondered about the danger. Almost nothing in the outdoors is as unpredictable as a buck during the rut. It’s the time of year when bucks, complete with swollen necks ...

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 ...

When it’s fall in Massachusetts, the red maples ignite with color, there’s a sharpness in the air, and a rite of passage eons old begins in the woods. It’s rut season—the annual white-tailed deer ...