Bowhunters and youth hunters have been putting down some bruisers across the Midwest. It’s truly amazing how much change has ...

A photo of a beautiful buck brings a reminder of the rut nearing, Illinois trout season opens on Oct. 18 but stocking is ...

The peak of archery season is underway as deer are moving more now than any other time of the year. Here's what you need to ...

The apparent rut peak is when we see lots of chasing, cars and deer dodge each other, and carcasses litter the highways, especially four-lanes across the Midwest and the Northeast.

November is a month of anticipation; Of high hopes, dreams, success and failures. It is a month which affects more people ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...

It’s now prime time for bowhunters, auto body shops, and roadkill cafes, all thanks to something known as the whitetail rut.

Jim Zumbo makes the case that when whitetail deer hunters get too obsessed with antler score, we miss the point.

This is where the right doe decoy can make a huge difference, because you can show all bucks exactly what they’re looking for ...

Peak breeding season, ‘the rut,’ is one of the periods South Carolina hunters look forward to. That gives them the best ...

As crazy as it may sound, midsummer is the perfect time to set a trap for a fall big-buck encounter by making mock scrapes. Most deer hunters associated scrapes with pre-rut hunting, but in my ...

Popular myths die hard. Bigfoot roams the woods and giant bucks move only at twilight. Well, I’m no expert on bigfoot, but I can shed some new light on the buck movement thing, and then take a ...