Doe hunting wasn’t popular back then. The Hill Country was overrun with does and was one of the first regions legalizing doe ...

Throughout a vast empire of cactus and mesquite country in the Southwest — an area about the size of New England with New York and Pennsylvania thrown in to balance off a few south-Texas counties — ...

Before I moved to South Texas in the 1960s, I had hunted deer in the Hill Country and some in the Pineywoods. The common ...

I was in high school the first time I rattled up a buck. My buddy and I were sitting on the edge of a big clover field, watching a little 8-pointer chase two does at the other end. “I’m gonna rattle ...

If you think calling deer just works in Texas and on large private properties, think again. Hunting on public land in ...

This story, “Why Not Try to Rattle Up a Buck?” originally ran in the May 1951 issue of Outdoor Life. While most readers are plenty familiar with the tactics described here, the article is a time ...