MINNEAPOLIS — Of the more than 153,000 whitetail deer felled in Minnesota so far this fall, Mason Rudolph’s was different. This was a buck, and a good one, a nine-pointer. None of that was ...

Anyone who hunts whitetails in hill country knows it is challenging to get away with hunting in the bottoms within this kind ...

A deer eats a plant you don’t recognize. Then, another, and another, and it “selects” these over your food plot or corn pile. On another hunt, a buck hits several obscure native species, and ...

This story, “Mystery of The Hinkley Deer,” appeared in the August 1969 issue of Outdoor Life. I saw the buck alive only the one time, and he was dead a minute after I caught sight of him. The last ...

Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can ...

We’ve all got busy schedules, so when it comes to maximizing our shed-hunting efforts, it’s natural to ask, When do deer shed their antlers? And, ideally, we'd like as precise an answer as ...

Here in Western New York, as soon as the snow starts to leave the hills and fields, it’s time to hunt for “drops,” or whitetail shed antlers. Back in the day “shed hunting” was reserved ...