It was the heart of the breeding season one fall when I shot a nice buck in the act of rubbing a tree. I didn’t pay much attention to this at first. But when it happened a second time, I realized that ...

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 ...

A big deer walks out of the thick stuff, eases down the trail, and stops broadside just 20 yards away. He scans the surroundings, sniffs the air, and lip curls for good measure. You loose an arrow and ...

size confirmed that this was no ordinary Pennsylvania whitetail. Then, the heavy-racked buck was there. Once I had a clear view of him, he was already within my range. I had just enough time to draw ...

With the deer breeding period kicking off, bowhunters need to be on their game and take advantage of tactics to lure a nice buck or a doe to within shooting range.Here are some tips for hunting the ...

Once again, it is time for your annual report on the rut for deer season. First things first: What is the rut? As you know, your humble outdoors writer is trying to be helpful. The friends, family and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks. The rut is something that occurs over several weeks in the fall. It’s the period ...

In mid-December, Benjamin J. Durrett sat in a ground blind overlooking a food plot, surrounded by pine and scrub forest, and blew on a buck grunt call just before dark. "At about 4 p.m., a 10-pointer ...

In the back of my mind I always wondered about the danger. Almost nothing in the outdoors is as unpredictable as a buck during the rut. It’s the time of year when bucks, complete with swollen necks ...