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 ...

Big, record-class whitetails are incredible animals. But big nontypical whitetails—sporting racks covered in drop tines, extra main beams, and a dizzying number of points—are on another level. Since ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arkansas whitetails held Andrew Conley scoreless for nearly four quarters, but two quick strikes in the waning moments salvaged his season. Conley, of Cave Springs, hunted one 10-point buck in St.

The Department of Natural Resources on Feb. 25 summarized the 2025 Wisconsin deer hunting seasons, including a 7% higher ...