How to Age a Whitetail
How can you tell the difference between a 2½-year-old buck and a mature 5½-year-old deer in those few tense seconds before you shoot or don’t shoot? Start by familiarizing yourself with the ever-changing features of the whitetail buck.
How to Adjust to the Rut’s Phases
The rut calls for a series of adjustments. As the bucks change their behavior patterns, you need to be there waiting for them.
Cold Fronts are Helpful
This past week was characterized by a mid-October cold front that passed through much of the central part of the U.S. Buck activity really spurred up after the two weeks of warm days.
Nebraska Whitetails Rising
Nebraska uses the whitetail deer as a state symbol for good reason, as the author shares just how good trophy deer hunting has become in this Great Plains state.
The Ultimate October Playbook
This month presents opportunities for a bowhunter or early-season muzzleloader hunter—if you don’t mess up first. Here’s how to score before the rut arrives.
On the Whitetail Clock
Whether we’re hunting the rut or keying on food sources, most deer hunters have a favorite day and magical hour for besting big bucks. What’s yours?
The Hot Ticket in Winter
Nail the weather forecast and find the food to make the late season great. Here’s what you need to pull a big buck out of the bare woods this month.
African Trophies Shared
The reasons father and son go to Africa, and what they take home, far exceed hide and horn. After sharing a lifetime of hunting, it's only fitting that the author would head to Africa with his father by his side.
Your Best Stand
With the blizzard of media sources at our fingertips today, sometimes fundamentals get lost amid so much information. Bill Winke provides a few simple tips that may be getting overlooked.
10 Deer Hunting Tips to Take to the Bank
It took the author a decade to learn these lessons about when, where and how to hunt and kill big bucks. Some of them may not be big news, but any number of them should reveal something for anyone.
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