Smith pled guilty to three counts of Illegal Take, Possession, or Destruction of Wildlife, one count of Statewide Big Game ...

White-tailed deer are among the most abundant big game animals in North America. They are practically everywhere, found in ...

A tip to Tennessee game wardens in fall of 2024 led to the conviction of a repeat poaching offender, and an accomplice.

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 ...

This near-disappearance of deer was much discussed at the time. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau had written that no deer had been hunted near Concord, Massachusetts, for a generation. In his famous ...

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 ...

White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Given their abundance in American backyards, ...