Plus, it's the last best day of the 2024 whitetail rut—so you need to get out there. Do your food-source homework and today should be an excellent day to wrap your tag around a heavy set of antlers.

Hunting Big Game Hunting Deer Hunting Whitetail Deer Hunting Why I Hunt the Whitetail Rut by Moon Phase—and You Should Too. A veteran whitetail expert and host of Big Deer TV on why the moon phase is ...

I read and studied every moon-based deer rut methodology, but while they all had good points, great logic, and of course photos of big bucks, I was never really sold on any of them 100%.

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all ...

The second tip for hunting the post-rut is a bit more strategic. According to Redmond Hunt, whitetail bucks can lose up to 20% of their body weight throughout the rut. Peak mating activity will ...

I killed my first rutting whitetail buck in 1971. Like most deer hunters, I used to think that the rut always happened on such-and-such a date because I experienced it.

Someday in a future deer season, whitetail hunters will be on the same page when discussions of rut timing take center stage around the fire. But it is not now. — Oak Duke writes a weekly column.

The author with a stud pre-rut buck. Photo by Josh Honeycutt. Don’t be afraid to make a big move. If it’s well-thought-out, and you can execute the plan without blowing up the rest of your season, go ...

Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to ...

He hunts throughout the allowed seasons and shows a buck he took during a primitive firearms, and said the rut, the breeding time for whitetail deer, provides hunters the chance for a successful ...