Deer Hunting(Page 5)

The best deer hunting tips and strategies for whitetails and mule deer.

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Hunting

Hunt Trophy Does, Turn Off the Damn Phone, Befriend Your Neighbors, and Make Deer Hunting Fun Again

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Maine Hunter Tags One of the Biggest 8-Points in State History

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

High Schooler Tags Enormous East-Texas Buck That Should Set a New State Record

By Bob McNally

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Guns

The Case for New, Wood-Stocked Deer Hunting Rifles

By Alex Robinson

ok bowhunter years long quest for GLT
Hunting

Bowhunter Ends 3-Year Quest for 180-Class Oklahoma Buck

By Bob McNally

An illustration of a deer heart and a fixed blade knife.
Hunting

6 Wild-Game Rituals That Are About Much More Than the Meat

By Gerry Bethge, By Josh Dahlke, By Tyler Freel, By David Karczynski, By Ben Long, By Andrew McKean

Grant woods buck
Hunting

Dr. Grant Woods on What Hunters Should Know About the Rut, Weather, and Deer Activity

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Oklahoma Bowhunter Tags a 230-Inch, 30-Point Buck on Opening Day

By Bob McNally

alabama velvet buck
Hunting

Bowhunter Tags 16-Point Buck Still in Velvet, Could Be an Alabama State Record

By Bob McNally

Freddy Krueger and a whitetail buck are facing off in a hunter's worst nightmare.
Hunting

Freddy Krueger Bucks: The Deer That Haunt Our Nightmares

By The Editors

The best rifle scopes for deer hunting laid out on rocks.
Gear

The Best Rifle Scopes for Deer Hunting of 2025

By Andrew McKean

craig harper
Hunting

How to Hunt Cover During the Rut, with Dr. Craig Harper

By Alex Robinson

whitetail scrapes
Hunting

The Ultimate Guide to Making and Hunting Mock Scrapes

By Josh Honeycutt

Teen hunter tags big crossbow buck.
Hunting

16-Year-Old Pennsylvania Hunter Sets a Women’s Crossbow State Record

By Bob McNally

Whitetail buck
Hunting

The Truth About Deer Jumping the String: There’s No Formula for One of Bowhunting’s Biggest Challenges

By Alex Robinson

whitetail deer scat
Conservation

What Does Deer Poop Look Like?

By Katie Hill

John Dudley buck
Hunting

John Dudley on How to Beat Buck Fever

By Alex Robinson

kentucky bowhunter three years stud in velvet
Hunting

Kentucky Bowhunter Waits Three Years to Tag 192-Inch Velvet Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

whitetail eating acorns
Hunting

How to Hunt Whitetails on the Acorn Crop This Fall

By Colin Moore, By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Best Deer Hunting Calibers

By John B. Snow

Best Tree Stand Harnesses of 2022
Gear

Best Tree Stand Harnesses of 2025

By Phil Bishop

The best broadheads for deer are displayed in the woods.
Gear

The Best Broadheads for Deer of 2025

By Scott Einsmann

tennessee wildlife resources agency tests for CWD
Conservation

Deer Biologist Accuses Tennessee Wildlife Agency of Intentionally Overestimating Chronic Wasting Disease Cases

By Dac Collins, By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Giant Typical Likely to Become the New No. 1 Hunter-Killed Buck in Ontario

By Dac Collins

Chris Palomo's big columbia blacktail buck in velvet.
Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Giant Velvet Blacktail After Hunting It for Three Years

By Bob McNally

elevated deer blind
Hunting

How to Build an Affordable and Portable Deer Blind

By Derek Porter, By Joe Brown

An illustration of a giant kansas buck
Hunting

No Man’s Land: The Hunt for a Giant Kansas Buck

By Alex Robinson

trophy room wall with mule deer heads
Hunting

Mike Hirschi Might Be the Greatest Trophy Mule Deer Hunter in America. These Are (Some of) His Secrets

By Aram von Benedikt

Sabots shoot flatter than rifled slugs.
Gear

Rifled vs. Sabot Slugs: Are You Shooting the Right Whitetail Load this Deer Season?

By Payton Miller, By Joe Genzel

bowhunter
Hunting

How to Bow Hunt Deer

By Alex Robinson, By Scott Einsmann

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Guns

The Legacy, and Last Years, of Jack O’Connor

By John Madson

The best food plots for deer
Gear

The Best Food Plots for Deer of 2025

By Brodie Swisher

Utah $10K shed
Hunting

Shed Hunter Finds $10,000 Mule Deer Antler, One of Five Hidden Across the West

By Dac Collins

feral hogs
Conservation

Hogs vs. Deer: Can Whitetail Managers Take Back Feral Pig Country?

By Josh Honeycutt

packtrain of hunters
Hunting

The Ghost of Greyback Ridge

By Andrew McKean

no 2 archery buck pennsylvania
Hunting

New No. 2 Pennsylvania Archery Buck Is Finally Recognized

By Bob McNally

Mitch Rompla buck
Hunting

Mitch Rompola Buck: The True Backstory on Why the Deer Was Never Entered as a World Record

By Richard P. Smith

first deer hunt
Hunting

The Heart & the Skull: Sometimes a First Deer Hunt Requires a Punched Tag

By Ashley Thess

nasal botfly larvae in deer nose
Hunting

Those White Grubs in Your Deer’s Nose Are Just Botfly Larvae. Don’t Panic

By Katie Hill

A mule deer buck stands beside a whitetail buck on the prairie.
Conservation

Mule Deer vs. Whitetail Deer: How to Tell Them Apart

By Katie Hill

In the War Against CWD, Deer Breeders in Texas Are Being Cast as Both the Enemy and the Answer
Conservation

In the War Against CWD, Deer Breeders in Texas Are Being Cast as Both the Enemy and the Answer

By Dac Collins

mule deer bucks
Hunting

The $725K Mule Deer Tag: Auction Tags Set All-Time Record at Western Hunt Expo

By Andrew McKean

Two flintlock hunters compare rifles in the snowy woods of Pennsylvania.
Hunting

Photos from Pennsylvania’s Flintlock Season, the Last of Its Kind in the Country

Photographs by Henry Hung, Story by Derek Horner

hunting deer with dogs
Hunting

Are Deer Dogs Really a Problem for Deer Hunting in the South?

By Adam Moore

hunter with large mule deer
Hunting

Mexico’s 200-Inch Mule Deer Are Legendary. That Doesn’t Make Them Easy to Kill

By Andrew McKean

Perfectly cooked wild game venison steaks in a cast iron skillet.
Hunting

Venison Facts Amid the Lion Diet TikTok Craze and World Carnivore Month

By Alex Robinson

what colors can deer see
Hunting

What Colors Can Deer See?

By Dac Collins

biggest bucks
Hunting

The Biggest Whitetail Bucks of 2022

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

What It Took to Kill the Biggest Buck of My Life

By Alex Robinson

six point buck
Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Biggest Six-Point You’ll See This Year

By Katie Hill

Best Mule Deer Cartridges
Guns

Best Mule Deer Cartridges

By John B. Snow

Illinois bowhunter shot 22-point whitetail buck
Hunting

The Full Story Behind the Xen Mcallister Buck, a Giant 22-Point Nontypical

By Katie Hill

the hunting public
Hunting

Tips from The Hunting Public: Chasing Open Country Whitetails in North Dakota

By Derek Horner

deer hunting opening day
Hunting

20 Deer Hunting Tips for Opening Day

By Tony Hansen

Two hunters kneel behind a large buck in the woods.
Hunting

Where to Hunt Deer in the Big Woods

By Hal Blood

The Winchester 1984 is one of the best .30-30 lever actions.
Guns

A Lever Action .30-30 Winchester Is Still One of the Best Deer Hunting Rifles (and Here’s Why)

By Mark Chesnut

Lindell Richey's giant 200-inch Greene County, Georgia, buck.
Hunting

Georgia Deer Hunter Accepts Last-Minute Hunt Club Invite, Shoots a Massive 200-Inch Buck

By Natalie Krebs

group of male hunters standing over a deer
Hunting

Bond of Brothers: Military Vets Find Healing in the Hunt

By Chuck Thompson

best rut stands
Hunting

The 10 Best Stand Locations for Hunting the Rut

By Josh Honeycutt

7 Deer Hunting Tactics You’ve Never Tried Before But Should
Hunting

7 Deer Hunting Tactics You’ve Never Tried Before But Should

By Michael Hanback

Iowa buck
Hunting

Tips from The Hunting Public: Chasing Public Land Whitetails in Iowa

By Derek Horner

aging bucks
Hunting

How to Estimate a Buck’s Age (and Why Aging Deer Matters)

By Alex Robinson

meredith buck lead
Hunting

Eighth Grader Arrows a 238-Inch Buck, Likely the Biggest Non-Typical Ever Killed by a Youth Hunter in Kentucky

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

One of the Biggest Archery Bucks Ever Taken in Missouri Gets Green Scored

By Dac Collins