Hunter success for antlered white-tailed deer last year was 49%; for antlerless whitetails it was 44%. Mule deer buck success was 80%; for antlerless mule deer it was 78%. Hunters with any ...

It’s still a little early for biologists to read the tea leaves and know how the 2024-25 winter survival will affect this fall’s hunts, so stayed tuned for more on that down the road.

“We know that antler size is positively related to body size and mass, and that on average a whitetail buck will grow his largest set of antlers between 5 and 7 years of age,” says Matt Ross, ...

we’re living the good old days of whitetail deer hunting right now. There are more deer on the landscape than ever before; opportunities for a hunter to tag a mature, trophy-size buck are at an ...

"It was nothing special then, but the buck grew substantially," the 31-year-old electrical designer remembers. "I began actually hunting it the next year, when its rack might've scored in the high ...

Thanks to some recent science, we now know one critical ingredient that can help your does and bucks reach their full growth potential. The intriguing answer came after a recent study on deer habitat, ...

The Landsford Canal Trail offers exactly that kind of satisfaction—a gentle 3-mile adventure that delivers more bang for your hiking buck than an all-you-can-eat buffet delivers calories.

The celestial spheres have ganged up to throw us deer hunters an astronomical curve ball this year, skewing the methodology of how we determine the dates of the 2025 whitetail rut a bit ... caressed ...

Such was the case for one deer hunter who was addressed by Jason Swaney ... A passing motorist saw a person cut off the head of a vehicle-killed white-tailed buck, place the head in the trunk of his ...

White-tailed deer are very important to Indiana woodlands. But in many areas of the state, deer populations have grown far ...

“We very rarely see elk populations affected by a hard winter. But we see that fairly often with mule deer,” said Fish and ...