Deer quickly learn patterns, and a poorly managed corn pile can teach them more about your habits than you ever learn about theirs. Instead of drawing daylight movement into bow range, you can end up ...

Many hunters unknowingly train deer to avoid them by using bait sites the wrong way. Overhunting the same corn pile, leaving scent, or creating predictable patterns can push mature bucks into ...

Several years back, when I was outdoors editor at the Brainerd Dispatch, I was asked by a co-worker, who was not necessarily a fan of hunting, why the deer season was set for November. I explained ...

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When deer hunting, there is desire, there is expectation and there is reality. One hopes for a mature buck with well-formed antlers, but one expects, at best, a young eight-point. Reality is often a ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...

In Illinois and other states, officials hoped that culls could halt the progress of chronic wasting disease. Now they are ...