“What deer is that?” said Keith Chaffin, outfitter on the Junco Ranch in South Texas—the same ranch where Lyndon Johnson used to chase whitetails. He adjusted the spotting scope for a closer look. “He ...

For most of us, July is a month reserved for fishing, grilling, and maybe the beach. Not Minnesota whitetail expert Bob Borowiak, who starts scouting around July 4th and continues until the season ...

Hunting stories about big deer are woven deeply into the fabric of Outdoor Life, and we look forward to hearing and sharing these stories each fall. These tales come from all over North America, and ...

Morgan Wallen was back in Iowa at the end of 2025 to get himself another big buck. If this story feels a little deja-vu-ish, that's because the country star behind hits like "Last Night" and "I Had ...

Some years Veterans Day appears as the hottest time, with grunting bucks and chasing, torn up rubs and scrapes, deer-car ...

The Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club is the official state record-keeper for big-game hunting. It keeps the trophy records for whitetail deer, black bears, elk and gray wolves – each in several categories.

The heavy eight-point buck burst out of the blackberry thicket like a launched missile. Within In seconds, he was bounding ...

Those big, old whitetail bucks are truly amazing. For so much of the year, they're like ghosts of the woods. You simply don't see them. Or, if you do, it's just a ...

Old timers will tell you that you do not need a backpack full of gadgets to kill a smart... The post The whitetail trick old hunters still use because it works appeared first on The Avid Outdoorsman.

This story, “The Trophy Trap,” was originally published in the November 2006 issue of Outdoor Life. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ...

Russell Haynie won the Star City Whitetails website big-buck contest with a massive 13-point trophy he killed on family property in the Northern Neck section of Virginia. Second went to Joshua Collins ...