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Field Editor Brian McCombie had an opportunity to put SilencerCo-equipped firearms to use on a South Texas deer hunt. What's hunting whitetails with a suppressor like? Get Brian's take here.

There's never a bad time to add a new rifle to your gun case—especially if you're looking for a favorite new meat maker before the 2015 whitetail season kicks into high gear. Here are a few new-for-2015 offerings that deserve some consideration if you're looking to make an addition to the family before your season begins.

Foster-type slugs have maintained their appeal to the single-shotgun hunter, resulting in most major ammunition manufacturers offering them. The latest to do so is Hornady.

As deer patterns change from summer to fall, here is how to relocate the bucks you have watched all summer.

AmericanHunter.org is bringing back "Whitetail Week" for 2015, an online-only initiative designed to deliver as much content as possible about North America's favorite game. First up? A rundown of the industry’s top five whitetail cartridges.

Researchers can dissect and explain the whitetail’s great eyes, ears and nose, but no amount of data can explain how and why each deer responds so differently to what it sees, hears and smells.

There are too many variables with wind and terrain to explore here, but if you apply these general rules to your woods you’ll see the places where, though they might have a lot of sign, the winds aren’t stable enough to hunt.

Some bucks have a different fall range from their summer range and the two ranges don’t always overlap. There is nothing you can really do about either.

Always a leader in generational deer rifles—see the Model 94 lever-action, pre-’64 Model 70 “Rifleman’s Rifle” and the later, push-feed version of the Model 70—Winchester has jumped into the fray with its new XPR.