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 ...

The perfect compound bow setup for whitetails will be easy to draw and shoot accurately from a treestand when the pressure is on and your heart is racing. It will be properly tuned. And it will sling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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10 Lessons from 50 Years of Whitetail Hunting When I think about how long I’ve been hunting deer, it’s honestly a little embarrassing. The year was 1972, which means Richard Nixon was president, the ...

Reading magazine articles and books on hunting whitetail deer has taught me a lot about how to hunt them. And although I don't watch a lot of hunting videos, I have learned a few things from them. And ...

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

Nov. 16—WARROAD, Minn. — As much as 11-year-old Knox Olafson enjoys deer hunting, it's going to be tough for him to top the buck he shot Sunday, Nov. 3, during a trip of a lifetime to south Texas. The ...