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Big Game Hunting

Mississippi Hunter Harvests Tall 13-Point Buck on Thanksgiving Day

By Bob McNally

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Big Game Hunting

Mississippi Middle Schooler’s First Buck Pushes 180 Inches

By Bob McNally

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Big Game Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Double Palmated Buck After Passing It Two Years in a Row

By Bob McNally

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Big Game Hunting

New York Hunter Gets a Second Chance on This 180-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Indiana Bowhunter Overhauls His Hunting Property to Tag 185-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Gutless Deer Butchering

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Hunting

85 Late Season Deer Hunting Tips to Save Your Season

By The Editors

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Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Massive Buck on Family Farm Thanks to Neighbor Who Shared Trail Cam Pics

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Ohio Hunter Arrows 211-Inch Giant After 2-Year Chase

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Minnesota Hunter Tags Triple-Beamed ‘Unicorn’ Buck

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Giant Kansas Buck with Double Drop-Tines

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

How to Hunt Big Bucks Over Bait

By Josh Honeycutt

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Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Tags Legendary 212-Inch Buck from a Brush Blind

By Hayden Sammak

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Hunting

The Thanksgiving I Spent Alone in the Woods

By Jack McPhee

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Hunting

Bowhunter Tags 194-Inch Buck Right Before Her 60th Birthday

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Ohio Bowhunter Tags 197-Inch ‘Brother Buck’ on a Small, 50-Acre Property

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Hunter Accidentally Blows Up Blind, Then Tags Palmated Buck

By Katie Hill

Bowhunter Tags 19-Point Kansas Buck During Heat Wave
Hunting

Bowhunter Tags 19-Point Kansas Buck During Heat Wave

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Why Post-Rut Is the New Best Time to Hunt Whitetails

By Michael Hanback

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Hunting

Hunter Shoots Huge Black Bear, Finds 8-Point Buck Underneath It

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

How to Hunt Deer Like a Cheesehead

By Alex Robinson

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Survival

75-Year-Old Deer Hunter Dies After Blind Catches Fire

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Pennsylvania Crossbow Hunter Tags Giant 18-Point Buck with a Little Help from His Friends

By Bob McNally

Long-range shooting skills for deer hunters are more practical than ever.
Hunting

The Long Game: Shooting Drills and Skills for Deer Hunters

By John B. Snow

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Hunting

Saskatchewan Hunter Takes ‘Two-For-One’ Buck with a Giant Deadhead Stuck to Its Rack

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Hunt Trophy Does, Turn Off the Damn Phone, Befriend Your Neighbors, and Make Deer Hunting Fun Again

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Maine Hunter Tags One of the Biggest 8-Points in State History

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

High Schooler Tags Enormous East-Texas Buck That Should Set a New State Record

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Bowhunter Ends 3-Year Quest for 180-Class Oklahoma Buck

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Dr. Grant Woods on What Hunters Should Know About the Rut, Weather, and Deer Activity

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Oklahoma Bowhunter Tags a 230-Inch, 30-Point Buck on Opening Day

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Bowhunter Tags 16-Point Buck Still in Velvet, Could Be an Alabama State Record

By Bob McNally

Freddy Krueger and a whitetail buck are facing off in a hunter's worst nightmare.
Hunting

Freddy Krueger Bucks: The Deer That Haunt Our Nightmares

By The Editors

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Hunting

How to Hunt Cover During the Rut, with Dr. Craig Harper

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Ohio Bowhunter Tags Tall 10-Point, and Finally Bests His Old Man

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Indiana Hunter Takes Her First Deer with a Recurve Bow

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

The Ultimate Guide to Making and Hunting Mock Scrapes

By Josh Honeycutt

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Hunting

Aaron Warbritton on How to Hunt the Rut on Public Land

By Alex Robinson

Ohio Hunter Tags a New Women’s State-Record Crossbow Buck
Hunting

Ohio Hunter Tags a New Women’s State-Record Crossbow Buck

By Bob McNally

A teenager sits behind a big 10-point buck.
Hunting

Tracking Dog Helps Mississippi Freshman Find His Buck, a Possible County Record

By Bob McNally

Teen hunter tags big crossbow buck.
Hunting

16-Year-Old Pennsylvania Hunter Sets a Women’s Crossbow State Record

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

The Truth About Deer Jumping the String: There’s No Formula for One of Bowhunting’s Biggest Challenges

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Monster Buck After Passing on It 5 Times

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

John Dudley on How to Beat Buck Fever

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Hunter Follows Dad’s Advice and Tags Giant Triple-Beam Buck

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter holds the antlers of a nontypical Ohio buck.
Hunting

Bowhunter Arrows Big 15-Pointer on a Small Ohio Farm

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Kentucky Bowhunter Waits Three Years to Tag 192-Inch Velvet Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

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Hunting

Mike Hunsucker on How to Hunt the Most Elusive Old Bucks

By Alex Robinson

The Uberti lever gun.
Guns

The Best Straight-Wall Deer Rifles

By Brad Fitzpatrick, Tyler Freel

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Hunting

Missouri Bowhunter Kills 21-Point Buck from Eight Yards

By Bob McNally

A woman sits behind a big velvet buck with three droptines and a sticker.
Hunting

Hoping to Kill a Nice 8-Point, Hunter Tags Triple Droptine Buck Instead

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Missouri Hunter Tags an 18-Point Doe on His First Sit of the Season

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

How to Hunt Whitetails on the Acorn Crop This Fall

By Colin Moore, Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Kansas Lawmakers Threaten to Strip $1 Million in Wildlife Funding if Agency Bans Deer Baiting

By Katie Hill

Two twin girls shot great Indiana bucks during the youth opener.
Hunting

Twin Girls Tag Giant Bucks During Indiana Youth Season

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter holds up the head of a big North Carolina buck.
Hunting

North Carolina Bowhunter Tags 15-Point Surprise Buck

By Bob McNally

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Conservation

Deer Biologist Accuses Tennessee Wildlife Agency of Intentionally Overestimating Chronic Wasting Disease Cases

By Dac Collins, Katie Hill

Learning how to skin a deer is relatively easy, all you need is a sharp knife.
Hunting

How to Skin a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

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Hunting

Giant Typical Likely to Become the New No. 1 Hunter-Killed Buck in Ontario

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Hunters Face Jail Time for Bringing Home a CWD-Infected Buck from Kansas

By Dac Collins

South Carolina Youth Hunter with his first buck.
Hunting

10-Year-Old Tags Giant Velvet 9-Point on Opening Day

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Should Kansas Ban Baiting for Deer?

By Dac Collins

An illustration of a giant kansas buck
Hunting

No Man’s Land: The Hunt for a Giant Kansas Buck

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

The Record Whitetail That No One Heard About…Until Now

By Katie Hill