I settled into my stand and waited. The Kentucky pre-rut with cool afternoon temps combined with the early muzzleloader season had me hopeful. Soon after sitting down, deer poured into the CRP fields ...

With the beginning of the pre-rut about to get underway scrape lines will be popping up as the big bucks mark their territories. It offers bow hunters that edge they’re looking for to put themselves ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

It’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned in more than 30 years of studying and hunting whitetail deer across North America: Don’t overthink it. You don’t need a grand plan to kill a buck, especially when ...

Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

After the first few weeks of bow season, a buck’s predictability factor typically diminishes. Changing food sources coupled with sudden hunting pressure and newly disbanded bachelor groups can often ...

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 ...

The breeding phase for white-tailed deer is an annual occurrence referred to as the rut. For deer hunters, the rut is the most exciting time of the year because during the rut, bucks throw caution to ...

It’s that time of year when deer hunters’ thoughts turn to the annual rut and how to get one of those mature, love-sick bucks into their sights. For many, the first trick they pull out of their ...

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