“whitetail bucks”

Antlers are some of nature’s most extraordinary ornaments, but how much do you really know about headgear? Here are six interesting facts about antlers.

Here are the articles our readers couldn't get enough of in 2020.

It’s the bottom of the ninth, you’re down by one and you’ve got runners on base. Step up to the late-season plate with these tactics in hand to give yourself a fighting chance at bringing home a buck.

The Victory is part of a new class of “optronic” instruments—which marry optical and electronic components—that do the thinking for you.

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.

Thanksgiving came early this year ... or late, depending on how you figure. Follow along on Karen Mehall's March gobbler hunt!

Deer hunters who seek to add a buck to the Boone and Crockett records book would do well searching these states, where careful management has resulted in a bumper crop of bruisers.

Hunters registered more Boone and Crockett Club whitetails during the past 10 years than in any decade before. Some of the hotspots will surprise you.

Think that you know where all the big bucks are? You might be surprised.