All of a sudden, archery season will be upon us. Like a frost in the morning follows a warm, Indian Summer afternoon. Seems like summer is never going to end. And then bow season is suddenly here.

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 ...

Outdoor Life reported last December that Ray Swingle achieved a deer hunting milestone that few people will live to top. At age 100, Swingle shot a Pennsylvania buck on the Union Dale area family farm ...

Ohio's recent deer hunting trends show a movement from muzzleloaders to bows. Will that trend continue in 2026?

It’s easy to think that the grass is greener somewhere other than Ohio. We can’t spot an elk up a mountain in Ohio. Or land a giant tarpon after a short boat ride. But when it comes to whitetail deer, ...

Indiana has become a top destination for deer hunters to pursue big bucks, like the one David Ray recently took near Bedford. Submitted photo There’s no denying the Midwest is the top whitetail deer ...

The annual deer take stayed for nine seasons at fewer than 200,000, bottoming out at 172,049 in 2018-19. The harvest hit ...

In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee deal was struck to allow any licensed Minnesota archer to hunt deer with a crossbow. The proposal never was heard ...

Deer hunting has a way of humbling people who think buying a tag and a rifle is the whole... The post 7 deer hunting lessons ...

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

And so, with all of that out of the way, here are 39 of the greatest American whitetail deer hunters of all time—mostly old-school and a few new-school influencers who, yes, stacked up bucks, but, ...