This season, I shot my biggest buck ever: a Kentucky main-frame 12-pointer with a couple extra points that scored 168 6/8 inches. And I shot that big sum-buck over a yellow pile of ear and ...

The end of the calendar year means that most of America’s deer seasons have also come to an end. And as we close out 2025, it’s a good time to look back on some of the biggest and best deer hunting ...

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

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 ...

The rut gets all the attention when it comes to big bucks hitting the dirt, but let’s be honest; during the frenzy of the breeding season, with deer running willy nilly through the woods, a lot of ...

A friend in Crawford County recently sent a photo of four bucks in velvet eating under a feeder in his front yard. That photo is meaningful because Arkansans will have an opportunity to kill a buck in ...

Craig Miller photographed a fawn and a buck last July from the backyard deck at his North Albany home. Black-tailed deer bucks have velvet-covered antlers in mid-summer. By late summer or early fall, ...

A Mississippi woman successfully hunted a mature trophy buck she had been tracking on trail cameras. The hunter, who is also a wildlife biologist, passed on two earlier opportunities to shoot the buck ...

The deer breeding season, or rut, makes early November the best time for archery hunting in Pennsylvania. Bucks are more active during the day this time of year, often found near does in areas with ...