Tired of sitting in a treestand yet? By the time the rut rolls around, many of us have spent days’—even weeks’—worth of hours 20 feet off the ground, just waiting. If you’re itching to get down and ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks. The rut is something that occurs over several weeks in the fall. It’s the period ...

Nov. 30 was the day before Austin Amacher’s 29 th birthday, and he spent it hunting with his family in Pennsylvania. The group of four got started at daybreak on a tract of state game land in Elk ...

A game camera took a nice photo of the buck that Willy Johnston wanted, but camera bucks seldom turn up during a hunt. This buck was an exception, and Johnston, who is accustomed to the greyhound-size ...

At high noon a few December muzzleloader deer seasons ago, I was on a deer drive with friends and acting as a stander at a likely location on the corner of a briar-infested woodlot bordering a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Wildlife Board approved the big game hunting permit numbers for 2025, as well as a few other changes to big game hunting rules in Utah, during its public meeting on May 1.

Hunters shouldn’t be discouraged if they don’t get a buck by the first day or two of Pennsylvania’s rifle deer season. With Pennsylvania having a seven-week archery season, special firearms season and ...

Camp tradition demanded a young buck for Thanksgiving dinner, but our Mississippi Delta hunt started without much promise ...

This story, “Old Crooked Horn,” was originally published in the September 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. The big mule deer buck was mad. He wheeled, lowered his head and charged Vaughn Wilkins, who was ...

This story, “I Work for My Bucks,” appeared in the October 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. I had caugt two fleeting glimpses of the big buck. The first was when he went sailing in long bounds across a ...

An Amish father has been identified as the 26-year-old hunter killed when a shot was fired at a buck that struck him during a ...