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 ...

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 ...

While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed deer through the brush. I stopped and made a slow stalk through the weeds and ...

Tired of sitting in a treestand yet? By the time the rut rolls around, many of us have spent days’—even weeks’—worth of hours 20 feet off the ground, just waiting. If you’re itching to get down and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prospects for deer hunters filling that buck tag in New York state this year have never been better, even though the tag ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A buck scent checks a doe. (Tom Torget) The big-racked, muscled-up brute crashes through cover. Operating like a pedigreed cutting ...

David Moreland said does are moving into estrus earlier than normal this year. This one, though, doesn't seem interested in her suitor's advances. David Moreland predicted an early deer rut this ...

It was the heart of the breeding season one fall when I shot a nice buck in the act of rubbing a tree. I didn’t pay much attention to this at first. But when it happened a second time, I realized that ...

Cellular trail cameras really are fantastic tools for researching a local deer herd and their habits. Last December on public land in Manatee County, at a time when the peak of the rut had been over ...