Big Game

State wildlife departments continue to wrestle with the topic of CWD, and North Carolina is next in line with proposing a ban of urine-based scents.

To home in on whitetail movement, remain flexible with your deer stand placement, and don’t be afraid to move at a moment’s notice.

The family that hunts together, stays together, right? Not necessarily.

Improve your chances to add more venison to your freezer with these nine crossbow hunting tips.

Do you have a favorite whitetail article from the past year? Here’s our list of editors’ picks for top 10 Whitetail Journal stories of 2019.

If you like to ambush whitetails from the ground, without the use of a blind, then use this tactic to draw your bow undetected.

If you want a solid rifle rest from a box blind, then check out the Kopfjäger Ambush Shooting Rest Kit.

Saddle up and capitalize on the rut’s midday movement.

Kansas is home to monster whitetails, but the author’s third trip to the Sunflower State looked like it would end with another bowl of tag soup.

This private land bowhunter decided to leave the trees and try stalking bucks while hiding behind a doe decoy. It worked!

For most whitetail hunters, the rut is the best time to be in the woods. Here are five strategies to maximize your odds during this year’s rut.

A bull elk was shot and left to rot in the Pigeon River State Forest, and the Michigan DNR is looking for help from the public to help nab the poacher.

For many deer hunters, the whitetail rut is their favorite time of the year because mature bucks come out of hiding in search for a hot doe.

In a day when heavily managed private lands are the norm and hunters don’t kill a specific buck unless they “have a history” with the animal, this story serves as a reminder about what’s most important.

To up your whitetail rut game, here are a few amendments for your playbook to consider.

Can one bowhunter recover from blowing the shot of a lifetime, regroup and come back to find success?

Identify the variables and create a plan to make them more predictable to make this year’s rut sits more reliable.