Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

Danny Roberts, a self-employed logger from Titusville, Pennsylvania, cuts back on work during hunting season, but he doesn’t do it for himself. He does it so he can spend more time in the woods with ...

In a rare bit of good news about chronic wasting disease, a new paper shows that harvesting more deer — specifically adult bucks — is better for slowing the spread of the contagious neurological ...

Mature bucks, known as alphas, leave their home range for excursions, sometimes traveling miles. While the reasons for these excursions are not fully understood, they are likely related to mating, ...

It was early November, 2020, just days after I'd arrowed a massive Ohio 16-point at a scrape hub, when my cell camera stationed there lit up. Even from a distance, the new buck’s swollen neck and high ...