Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

Archery season for whitetails can be one of the most frustrating of all the upland shooting sports. Tough, lonely, uncomfortable ... bow hunting tests our physical and emotional stamina. And when the ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

A Mississippi College analytical biochemist has been using game cameras to study how deer spread diseases and along the way he's refined his techniques to not only get more bucks on camera but reduce ...

As the calendar page turns from October to November, daylight wanes and temperatures drop, reassuring bowhunters the best days of archery deer season are still to come. The action is just picking up ...

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The final week of the pre-rut is here and the bucks are increasingly active during daylight. With the final days of October slipping by, the time of year that every whitetail hunter dreams of is at ...

Annual visits to outdoors shows reveal scores of new products each year — a testament to the hunting industry’s penchant for innovation. However, some of these products are hot for only a little while ...