Large white-tailed deer buck shaking off rain in an open meadow during a rain storm in Smoky Mountain National Park. Motion blur from slow shutter speed© Tony Campbell/Shutterstock.com Every fall, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed deer through the brush. I stopped and made a slow stalk through the weeds and ...

We’re in the heart of the rut now. If you hunted this past week, your woods were probably rocking, with does flying through the timber, tongues lolling, and bucks hot on their tails. As we move into ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and deer hunters everywhere, it's time for your favorite deer season topic, and that is the rut. I was contemplating skipping a column on this wildly popular deer-related ...

It was the heart of the breeding season one fall when I shot a nice buck in the act of rubbing a tree. I didn’t pay much attention to this at first. But when it happened a second time, I realized that ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...

The recent 2024 whitetail rut did not roll out in a typical occurrence so often portrayed. Those of us that were actually out there saw last season’s rut more like an old lawn mower engine that had ...

When David Moreland talks about deer, a lot of people listen, especially hunters. And, when he was talking deer during Friday’s frosty morning, he had just climbed down from his East Feliciana Parish ...

For a few weeks each year, the familiar backyard deer stops behaving like a quiet lawn ornament. The shift happens during the rut, the annual breeding season when bucks move from tolerance to conflict ...

Jack-o-lanterns and whitetail deer have something in common because Halloween is the key timeframe when the whitetail rut in Michigan starts warming up. It is a time when using various deer ...