The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...

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 ...

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, ...

The guys were on me a bit, back in October, just before Halloween. Even interrupted their card game. “So, where’s the rut?” “Stinks out there.” “Ain’t no deer no-how.” “Might as well play golf.” And ...

While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

When humans fall into a rut, it’s understood that our lives have become routine and boring. When a road becomes rutted, overuse in wet conditions have resulted in a dangerous drive. But if you’re a ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed ...

If Pennsylvania’s archery season stretched any further into November than it already does – or the rifle season opened a couple weeks earlier That’s because November signals the rutting season. During ...

Big bucks like this lose much of their wariness during the peak rutting season, when their attention is focused on breeding does. A friend recently told me about an amazing event that occurred while ...

The last week of October and the first week of November are the two weeks white-tailed deer bowhunters live for. The rut will be kicking in, and deer will be on their feet during daylight hours. It’s ...