This story, “Two Best Ways to Get Deer,” appeared in the November 1963 issue of Outdoor Life. THE FIRST DEER I ever killed came to me, but I was in a good place, walking a few steps at a time and ...

Beaten, bruised, and a bit smarter than it was on opening day, the old buck slowly moves from his bed. The sun just set, but he’s not anywhere close to a big field yet. Keeping it in low gear, the ...

We're in the thick of deer season now, and hopefully all your pre-season hours of scouting, tracking, and preparation have paid off. But for some of us, that nice 10-pointer hasn't showed his rack ...

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...

Harvesting a trophy buck is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for many hunters, but for one Mississippi man, it was just a part of an unforgettable year.

When a Mississippi hunter got in his blind on the opening day of the early archery season, the hunt didn't look very promising. He was dealing with a deer with a pattern that made him almost ...

A Mississippi deer hunter hadn't hunted in years and harvested her biggest buck ever her first time back in a stand.

The truth be known, I never bought a Michigan hunting license of any kind until just before the firearm deer season in November 1963, when I was 14. For a Thumb farm kid back then, a hunting license ...

From preseason scouting to peak hunting season, here’s the premier whitetail gear we’ve been enjoying and testing out this year. We’re in the thick of deer season now, and hopefully all your ...