Here are four subtle, but different colors of blood. Each one has a message. Learn how blood color helps hunters track animals.

Regardless of whether or not it's a trophy, it's one hell of an accomplishment to shoot a doe. Here's why. Plus, when's the best time to hunt these animals?

An Iowa landowner trades deer-hunting rights to a Michigan family for access to a prime fishing hole. Nice idea, except it was illegal.

Meet several parameters on any broadside shot and you can expect to cleanly take down a whitetail deer in a matter of seconds. Of course, there's a catch: a broadside shot may not materialize.

Summer food plots provide valuable protein-rich forage for whitetail deer, but weed competition and browse pressure are two things you'll have to combat.

Good hunting optics are crucial to your success. Little signifies money spent well more than the performance of your binocular, riflescope and spotting scope.

Remember that song, "the toe bone's connected to the foot bone," and so on and so on? Well, deer have bones in their hearts and it's a bone connected to nothing.

Here's a basic guide to how deer respond to the heat, along with a broader look at weather patterns and deer behavior.

A new hunting game, "Hunting Simulator," offers a realistic hunt experience complete with maps and scat, but gamers remain skeptical.

You wouldn't ask your kid to play a basketball game with shoes two sizes too big. The same logic applies when buying deer rifles for kids.

In the stomachs of some whitetail deer, hunters find unusual stones known as "madstones." These stones were once said to be capable of curing rabies and snakebites.

Children are the future of hunting — but that’s just one reason they should learn how to hunt.

From predation to dumb-luck accidents in the wild, there's a whole list of factors that influence a deer's life span. We break down each to answer the question, how long do deer live?

Deer hunters can hunt thousands of acres through special, private land access programs available in some states. And you can do it all for free.

More than 1,900 fatal accidents have been attributed to drivers hitting animals in the road — most due to deer collisions — over the past decade in the U.S.

Want to hunt deer in velvet this year? Here are seven states where pursuing your dream of harvesting a velvet buck can become a reality.

Missing woman lost in wooded bottomland for two days took shelter in deer stands and avoided severe dehydration by drinking pond water.