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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The most overlooked calibers for whitetail

Most hunters tend to settle on a handful of calibers year after year, and it’s easy to forget how... The post The most ...
"Stand hunting" or "taking a post" can become a very chilly proposition, if not downright cold especially when the ...
There’s no denying the Midwest is the top whitetail deer hunting region of the country. States like Kansas, Iowa, and Wisconsin have led the way in producing giant bucks for a long time. Other states, ...
Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...
After years of online detective work by a 23-year-old Kansas bowhunter, the Sunflower State appears to have a new record typical whitetail buck for the first time in 50 years. But the story behind the ...
Every early-season hunter who has walked away from his stand sweaty and empty-handed knows that high fall temperatures can turn whitetails into slugs. Already clad in their winter coats, most ...
WHEN YOU HUNT from the leaning-tree stand, you never know where the deer might come from. It’s an inexpensive two-person ladder stand, old as dirt, not quite rickety, but you can see rickety from ...
EDDINGTON, Maine (WABI) - Eddington 25-year-old Zac Bragdon completed his hunting grand slam of a moose, bear, turkey, and ...
His original plan was to raise deer, collect their urine and make a hunting lure that no big buck could resist. Todd Dunn, of West Portsmouth in Scioto County, still does all that, and he stands by ...
Deer hunters looking for some of Arkansas' best public land opportunities have through July 31 to apply for one of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's wildlife management area deer permit hunts.