After the chaos of the peak rut, the deer population undergoes a noticeable shift. Most does have been bred, and bucks are no ...

Now, as antlers are done growing and nearing the time for velvet shedding (usually around Labor Day), those largest bucks, the alphas, are apt to be caught on trail cams while on the move on a buck ...

People have been telling me they see some very large, racked bucks in the fields. During the rut, those big bucks let down their guard when in search of a mate. Now that the rut is nearly over, I am ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...

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Bowhunters and youth hunters have been putting down some bruisers across the Midwest. It’s truly amazing how much change has occurred in buck harvests during the past 20 years as so many more bucks ...

For Montana deer hunters, mid- to late-November is prime time to search for bucks that have remained elusive through months of mild fall weather and early season hunting pressure. The timing of the ...

Every fall, the thin air of Colorado‘s high country is thick with drama as deer go into rut—the annual deer mating season. It’s a time when Colorado’s white-tailed deer bucks lose their usual caution, ...

Deer movement will increase this week as bucks seek out does that are nearing or entering their estrus cycle. This breeding activity boosts daytime deer movement and marks one of the best times to ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed ...