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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s ...

A flash in the spruce. The glint of an antler beam thick as an axe handle. When you peek a 170-inch rack, there’s no need to glass, you just know. I leveled my .30-06 and pressed the trigger, the ...

Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t weigh you down after a few miles of easing along ridgelines and creek bottoms.

A first whitetail deer hunt and particularly a successful harvest can be life changing. However, not everyone has access to huntable land or a mentor that can help. New hunters are not likely educated ...

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 ...