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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A big deer walks out of the thick stuff, eases down the trail, and stops broadside just 20 yards away. He scans the surroundings, ...

It was late when I arrived at the hunting camp on New Zealand’s North Island. I had only a little time for gear prep and then it was off for bed. But seconds after my head hit the pillow — I heard it.

ON A BITTER November afternoon, my neighbor Alan wrapped up his 15-year-old son, Tanner, like Ralphie’s kid brother in A Christmas Story, then put a muzzleloader in his hands and led him to a blind ...

If there’s anything deer hunters can agree on, it’s that we love to argue. There’s plenty to debate: scent control vs. hunting the wind, treestand vs. saddle hunting, compounds vs. crossbows — the ...

Nov. 17—Signs of the "rut" have emerged in northwest Montana as the general hunting season winds down with less than two weeks remaining. The general deer and elk hunting season concludes Nov. 26, ...

When David Moreland talks about deer, a lot of people listen, especially hunters. And, when he was talking deer during Friday’s frosty morning, he had just climbed down from his East Feliciana Parish ...

Tired of sitting in a treestand yet? By the time the rut rolls around, many of us have spent days’—even weeks’—worth of hours 20 feet off the ground, just waiting. If you’re itching to get down 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 ...

These questions were asked on the state Department of Fish & Wildlife website: Question: While watching hunting shows on TV, I see that most of them are hunting during the rut. Why can't deer and elk ...