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%.

Check veteran deer hunter Mike Hanback's best 101 hunting tips and tactics for hunting the whitetail rut this season. Check veteran deer hunter Mike Hanback's best 101 hunting tips ... deer from ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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%.