Thanks to well-placed trail cam, an epic after-dark battle between a 180-class non-typical and another monster whitetail was captured on video.
In addition to feeding in standing cornfields, whitetails will often use them for bedding cover, too. And occasionally a deer’s instinct to hide rather than flee costs the animal its life.
When brainstorming ways to access public land for whitetails — and distance yourself from other deer hunters — don’t forget the boating option.
Avoid frustration by keeping your whitetail rut hunting approach simple — and successful — with these five straightforward strategies.
Many deer hunters make mistakes when placing a trail cam. Here are four tips for getting better trail cam pics.
5 proven pre-rut tactics for winning the whitetails game this October.
Whitetail bowhunters can put the odds in their favor by targeting scrapes. Here are the four proven steps to success.
Don’t sit home on the couch complaining about the October Lull. You can beat it with these seven strategies.
It’s critical for deer hunters – especially archers – to understand deer anatomy. It’s a fine line between a quick kill and a marginal hit.
Mature whitetail bucks don’t often give bowhunters second chances, but his one did, thanks to a well-placed deer decoy.
After extensive searching for an arrow-hit whitetail, a hunter and his buddies use a drone — legally — to find the buck in a thick swamp.
Two world-class non-typical whitetails were killed in September 2021, and although the two bucks look similar, the stories behind the giants are completely different.
Timely scouting will reveal clues to where early season whitetails are feeding. The key to success is quickly forming a game plan based on this intel.
Marginal hits on whitetails will eventually happen to any veteran bowhunter. Some are pilot error, while others are difficult to decipher. What do you think happens here?
If you want to take an inventory of mature whitetail bucks in your area, then cover some ground in a vehicle during summer and glass green fields at sunset.
Tagging a mature whitetail buck during late-season is usually a challenge, and that’s especially true on public land.
Central Michigan isn’t known as a hotbed for big bucks, but the host of MAD Forager encounters a mature whitetail on public land, and it’s worth checking out.
The rut can cause whitetail bucks to act in unpredictable ways, as this bowhunter learns on a mid-November afternoon.
One great way to obtain permission on private land is to offer to remove a doe — or three — from the deer herd.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources surveys the state’s whitetails by using spotlights. This conservation work is funded by excise taxes paid by archery, firearms and ammunition manufacturers through the Pittman-Robertson Act.
