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Field Editor Frank Miniter offers a few tips for scouting that big buck during the summer months.

As we head for the whitetail woods, the author shares the lessons he learned from a four-year quest for one specific buck.

Hunters shouldn’t try to compete with farmers. You are not trying to grow crops in perfect rows in a large field. You are looking to bring in a buck you want to shoot in daylight. This means creating one or more food plots that bucks feel comfortable feeding in or cruising into as they search for does during the rut, during daylight.

Baiting black bears—if legal where you hunt—can certainly improve your odds. But there's a lot more to it than throwing some old fruit out in front of your stand.

MOJO has long been associated with the industry's most respected motion decoys, and now the company has partnered with Duck Commander to bring another new design to the market with the new Rippler decoy.

Shooting a bow from a ground blind is difficult. But it doesn't have to be. The key is preparation.

During the rut, the bucks themselves may not always know where they will be next, so how can you expect to know? Luck will always play a role in your success, but when you play the odds and focus on those things that are predictable, luck will find you a whole lot sooner.

If football is a game of inches, then hunting is a chase of split-seconds.

In land we long to visit but is not made for us, “comfort” is a relative term. Think you’ve got what it takes to be a sheep hunter? Read some words of wisdom from a Fairbanks, Alaska, resident with 13 years of sheep hunting under his belt.