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Whitetail Deer

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9 Crossbow Hunting Tips for Rutting Whitetails

Improve your chances to add more venison to your freezer with these nine crossbow hunting tips.
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Editors’ Picks: Top 10 Whitetail Journal Stories of 2019

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.
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Butt-on-the-Ground Bowhunting Trick

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

6 Tips for Enduring All-Day Hunts

Saddle up and capitalize on the rut’s midday movement.
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Kansas Whitetails: Targeting the ‘Boone Buck’

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.
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Decoying Bucks From the Ground

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

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.
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Remembering Classic Whitetail Rut Hunts

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.
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Video: Best Deer Hunting Story of 2019

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.
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Improve Your Whitetail Rut Game

To up your whitetail rut game, here are a few amendments for your playbook to consider.
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Coming Back From a Blown Bow Shot

Can one bowhunter recover from blowing the shot of a lifetime, regroup and come back to find success?
RW1158 Mark Kayser hunted a hotspot and waited for this rutting buck to return copyright Mark Kayser

Whitetail Hunters: Pick the Right Rut Stand

Identify the variables and create a plan to make them more predictable to make this year’s rut sits more reliable.
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Execute a Suicide Squeeze This November to Score a Wall-Hanger Buck

A “suicide squeeze” is a baseball play where the batter bunts, sacrificing himself at first base so the third-base runner can score. In bowhunting, it pertains to rutting bucks traveling through funnels occupied by bowhunters. Execute the play this November to score a wall-hanger buck.
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Targeting Rutting Whitetails in Twisted Terrain

When topography and foliage mix perfectly, the coupling creates natural funnels that concentrate rutting buck movement.
Exit Strategies

4 End-of-the-Day Exit Strategies for Whitetails

Bumping whitetails as you leave an afternoon stand is never a good thing. Here’s how to avoid this common mistake.
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Buck Fight Caught on Trail Camera

These two bucks get caught fighting on camera before one of them gets a little too close in the heat of the moment.
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Overlooked Oklahoma Whitetails

If luck wasn’t on your side for a coveted draw tag in Kansas, then pick up an over-the-counter Oklahoma whitetail tag.