Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

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 ...

It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it’s usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...

Beaten, bruised, and a bit smarter than it was on opening day, the old buck slowly moves from his bed. The sun just set, but he’s not anywhere close to a big field yet. Keeping it in low gear, the ...

A while back, a Utah hunter wrote to Outdoors Unlimited, official publication of the Outdoor Writers of America, to ask what happened to the hunting adventure stories he used to read in outdoor ...

A heavy-racked buck beds down for the day. Wind sweeping from behind, and eyes scanning down below, danger has little chance of finding him before he detects it. After all, that’s why the buck picked ...

Gun hunters always account for the bulk of annual deer harvest across Texas and beyond, but archers are often the ones that connect with the really big boys. The reason? Conroe bowhunting ace A.J.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whitetail buck in a grassy field. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a ...