Prowling around the big woods is deer hunting as our forefathers knew it. From the rugged mountains of New York’s Adirondack Park to the sprawling bottomland of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, there ...

A buck watches its backtrail. The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and shooting him at close range. Executing a hunt like this takes skill, patience ...

Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...

Hunting is a longstanding tradition locally and Pennsylvania's rifle deer season continues to attract big numbers in search of trophy bucks.

Dwelling within the heart of all dedicated deer hunters is the belief that the biggest bucks live in the deep woods. There’s no true definition for “deep woods.” It varies from coast to coast. It ...

Small-woods deer hunting is its own kind of puzzle. You don’t have sprawling timber, deep ridges, or endless bedding... The post Small-woods tactics that produce surprisingly big deer appeared first ...

Harvesting a trophy buck is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for many hunters, but for one Mississippi man, it was just a part of ...

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

Something happened to me as a Pennsylvania deer hunter the last three years. I re-learned that it’s fun. In my formative years as a hunter some 35 years ago, Pennsylvania deer hunting was always fun.