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 ...

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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 ...

Two deer-killing conditions, chronic wasting disease and EHD, are bringing changes to Ohio's hunting season.

Every early-season hunter who has walked away from his stand sweaty and empty-handed knows that high fall temperatures can turn whitetails into slugs. Already clad in their winter coats, most ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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The South Texas Plains region is well known for having quality bucks, while deer density is at a pretty high level – 15 to 39 deer per 1,000 acres. While most deer hunters exploit game in their ...