Bowhunting whitetails is a season-long chess match, and your chance of winning goes up if you make smart moves every time you enter the woods.

According to Jeff Sturgis of Whitetail Habitat Solutions, the key component to a mock scrape is a vine tied in correctly as a licking branch.

If one of your whitetail food plots is failing, early September is the time to save it. Here’s how.

As a whitetail hunter, you’re already thinking about ways to help your deer herd. But is spring the best time to plant clover food plots?

If deer season has ended on your whitetail property, then it’ time to begin thinking about habitat improvement projects, including forest cuttings. Do you know which trees to cut?

The second rut is real, and in the Midwest and North, it takes place from late November through mid-December.

For the first time this late summer and fall, the author plans a layering winter rye system to lure Wisconsin whitetails.