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 ...

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 ...

Every early-season hunter who has walked away from his stand sweaty and empty-handed knows that high fall temperatures can turn whitetails into slugs. Already clad in their winter coats, most ...

Bowhunter Josh Heuser tagged “a buck of 10 lifetimes” on Sept. 27 while hunting in his home state of Missouri. That’s according to Clint Schwach, who captured some beautiful photographs of Heuser’s ...

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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 ...

The South Texas Plains region is well known for having quality bucks, while deer density is at a pretty high level – 15 to 39 deer per 1,000 acres. While most deer hunters exploit game in their ...

Hunters need the best hunting backpacks—whether it’s a Midwest hunt for whitetails or a walk through the Rockies searching for elk. Like most outdoor gear, modern-day packs are comfortable, purposeful ...

The successful hunters I know do not get hung up on one tactic. They constantly float between strategies in an ever-changing ...

Q: Hunters in Texas kill a lot of white-tailed deer each year. What would happen if they didn’t kill any at all? A: While the Texanist has been a trapper of raccoons, a shooter of birds, a stabber of ...