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The best rifles for still-hunting whitetail

Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t ...
When the conditions and terrain are just right, nothing beats still hunting for whitetails. Here's how to do it.
When it comes to deer hunting in the rain, the first and most important question to answer is whether should you even bother. You’ve asked yourself this before, I’m sure. You looked at the forecast ...
Prowling around the big woods is deer hunting as our forefathers knew it. From the rugged mountains of New York’s Adirondack Park to the sprawling bottomland of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, there ...
Hundreds of thousands of hunters across Minnesota will experience a true November deer opener Saturday when the state kicks ...
Those who walk in along creek bottoms, wade through streams or use a canoe or kayak often end up in places where deer surely appreciate the lack of hunting pressure.
Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...
Minnesota hunters tagged up to 65,000 whitetails on opening weekend, squarely ahead of the five-year average. Minnesota deer ...
After learning about an EHD outbreak and then traveling to his mom's funeral, the author returns home to Montana to make ...