It was the afternoon of Nov. 1 – the day after Halloween – when Joey Allen and his six-year-old daughter, Elody, climbed into an elevated stand. They were hunting on private property in Missouri’s ...

I had my rifle loaded by 5:45 a.m. on Wisconsin’s opening morning. I was warm from the walk in, and my feet were still on fire from the HotHands I’d stuck in my boots, but I knew the drill: Cool down ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in ...

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 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 ...

A cultural shift among hunters to pass on younger deer has led to an older buck population. Antler point restrictions, in place for over 20 years, are credited with the increase in larger bucks. The ...

It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it's usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...

It was early November, 2020, just days after I'd arrowed a massive Ohio 16-point at a scrape hub, when my cell camera stationed there lit up. Even from a distance, the new buck’s swollen neck and high ...

All of a sudden, archery season will be upon us. Like a frost in the morning follows a warm, Indian Summer afternoon. Seems like summer is never going to end. And then bow season is suddenly here.

Six-year-old Elody Allen with her first buck. It was the afternoon of Nov. 1 – the day after Halloween – when Joey Allen and his six-year-old daughter, Elody, climbed into an elevated stand. They were ...