After the chaos of the peak rut, the deer population undergoes a noticeable shift. Most does have been bred, and bucks are no ...

The rut gets all the attention when it comes to big bucks hitting the dirt, but let’s be honest; during the frenzy of the breeding season, with deer running willy nilly through the woods, a lot of ...

Now, as antlers are done growing and nearing the time for velvet shedding (usually around Labor Day), those largest bucks, the alphas, are apt to be caught on trail cams while on the move on a buck ...

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 can increase your odds November is the time of year every deer hunter ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks. The rut is something that occurs over several weeks in the fall. It’s the period ...

A whitetail hunter is always up for the mating season. The rut, as it's called, is a short window of opportunity exercised by the deer and the sportsmen alike. For the buck, a few weeks of November ...

If there’s anything deer hunters can agree on, it’s that we love to argue. There’s plenty to debate: scent control vs. hunting the wind, treestand vs. saddle hunting, compounds vs. crossbows — the ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed ...

Calling deer can be an effective way to bring bucks to your stand, even though there isn’t the same instant gratification usually associated with calling ducks or turkeys. Deer aren’t nearly as vocal ...

A doe appeared in the corner of the old skid road, walked stiff-legged for a few steps, then broke into a quick trot for a couple of seconds before stopping and throwing her head back over her ...

This is the hilarious moment a blacktail buck wandering through Foresthill, California during the rut on November 20 finds a decoy deer and accidentally flings it through the air.