A flash in the spruce. The glint of an antler beam thick as an axe handle. When you peek a 170-inch rack, there’s no need to glass, you just know. I leveled my .30-06 and pressed the trigger, 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, ...

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 ...

As Thanksgiving looms near, many whitetail hunters have already seen the peak of their region's rut activity come and go. Regardless, late November and early December can be an extremely productive ...

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 spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...

Sweat was dripping from my brow as I leaned up against a tree for a much-needed rest. Deep snow and vertical mountain slopes created the excess perspiration, not hot fall temperatures. The scent of ...