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 ...

With the year coming to an end, we look back on some of the biggest bucks and the best deer hunting stories from 2025.

Velvet can make the antlers of even a midsize buck look huge, and make a true monster seem like a mythical creature—which was exactly the vibe I got a few years ago when my neighbor Dave showed me the ...

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 ...

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

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

By V. Paul Reynolds During camp debates about the best deer rifle calibers, someone inevitably pipes up: “Yea, that .

Most deer hunters dream about one day tagging a drop tine deer—one of those bucks with a point (or several points) dropping down from the main beam. That’s why we’re sharing these photos and stories ...

The big whitetail moved steadily, head lowered, nosing a course through a lunarlike landscape of earth mounds, dark puddles and hair-thick brush. Strip mining had turned the area raw and made hunting ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Public land hunts are never the easiest route in deer hunting, but it’s a myth that one can’t find good deer out there and it’s not worth the effort. I saw that all on a week-long ...

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 ...

Ron Roman and his son, Carter, with their 12-point monster buck taken in nearby Colden on Nov. 19, 2025. Submitted photo Western New York has earned a reputation in recent years as one of the ...