JARED SCHEFFLER’S ideal archery shot on a whitetail buck is either quartering to or facing head-on. He hunts exclusively from the ground. Scheffler shoots a longbow, and he uses heavy arrows that are ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...

Last mid-May I pulled off the blacktop, up a dirt road. Whoa! Brake! There, blocking my way, were two spindly-legged newborn fawns. Their mother stood off to the side in the tall grass and brush, like ...

As Thanksgiving looms near, many whitetail hunters have already seen the peak of their region's rut activity come and go. Regardless, late November and early December can be an extremely productive ...

Before you can talk about the country’s best deer hunting states, you need to narrow the terms a little. There are three species (and nearly 50 subspecies) of deer in this country, after all. So, for ...

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 ...