Whitetail Journal

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.

If you’re around Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 11, 2018, be sure to swing by Gander Outdoors for a chance to win a Texas whitetail hunt!

If you need your whitetail bowhunting spirit rekindled, a bit of travel will do it, but you’ll need a plan and a good attitude.

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.

Bowhunting wary Montana whitetails from the ground, without the aid of a blind, is a supreme challenge — especially when it’s your first attempt.

What to bring to a hot ground blind and how to stay cool as a cucumber when the days are long and the mercury is off the charts.

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.

Gale force winds and driving rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of this hardcore whitetail bowhunter. And it was a good thing they didn’t.

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?

After the shot on this 200-class Kansas whitetail, the situation doesn’t look promising.

More than 245 million surface acres in the U.S. are under BLM management and open to hunters. Much of that is found in the heart of the Rocky Mountain West.