Hunting whitetails in the West is a different game than if you’re pursuing bucks in the Midwest or East. We have expansive tracts of land out here, which makes it both difficult and overwhelming to ...

There’s a pattern emerging in the world of trophy whitetail hunting. It’s how two of the greatest bucks of all time were taken last season, and it’s how the world record may be shattered this fall.

The perfect compound bow setup for whitetails will be easy to draw and shoot accurately from a treestand when the pressure is on and your heart is racing. It will be properly tuned. And it will sling ...

Setting up a compound bow to hunt whitetails is more complicated than you might think. A lot of hunters just order a bow, have the local shop do a basic tuneup or, do it themselves if they are capable ...

All of a sudden, archery season will be upon us. Sneaks up like a frost in the morning after a warm, Indian summer afternoon the day before. Seems like summer is never going to end. Then bow season is ...

Some years Veterans Day appears as the hottest time, with grunting bucks and chasing, torn up rubs and scrapes, deer-car ...

I WAS AT the base of the tree, adjusting my climbing stand’s platform to the perfect upward angle so that it’d level out 20 feet off the ground. The stand’s scraping against white-oak bark sounded ...

When Larry Kline shot the "ghost buck" near Gordon in 2004, he told his wife, Amy, "This deer is going to change our life." "And it has," said the Solon Springs hunter. The 23-point nontypical ...

Defining “fame” when it comes to big whitetails can be difficult. Size is important, of course. So much so, in fact, that I’d be hard pressed to think of a truly famous whitetail that isn’t also huge.

Now that October has arrived and there’s a tiny hint of autumn in the air, Pennsylvania bowhunters can start to get serious about their pursuit of the official state animal – the whitetail deer. For ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in ...

WABASHA — Cody Wiemann’s obsession began five or six years ago when he first saw two young bucks on trail cams in the Wabasha-Theilman area. The obsession grew as the bucks grew and one in particular ...