“whitetail rut”

During the whitetail rut there are two schools of thought when it comes to hanging stands.

No matter when you take your vacation this month, here's how to get your buck.

During this year’s whitetail rut, perhaps you observed a buck fight. While most “fights” are just pushing and shoving matches often involving young bucks that don’t even know they are bucks yet, others are very aggressive encounters.

Here’s a game plan for each phase of the whitetail rut.

Send us a photo and a 200-word description of when, where and how you filled your tag by March 1, and we’ll run the top entries in the American Hunter magazine this June—your photo might even make the cover!

The rut is here, so perhaps it’s time to throw caution to the wind. Deer don’t act normal, and neither should you.

Use your phone to search exhibitors, schedule seminars and even bid on auction items.

To help you tag a turkey this season, Field Editor Frank Miniter shares some helpful tips on how to predict and hunt gobbling peaks.

You see a buck across a field in the soft, late light of a summer evening. You tell yourself he isn’t really that big. The velvet on his rack in the diffused light is giving the buck cartoon proportions. But he is big enough. You next look at the woods beyond the buck and wonder how you can get him in your sights in autumn daylight. To make that happen you have to concede and understand a few things.