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A few Novembers ago, I set out for a hang-and-hunt on my favorite piece of public land in North Carolina. After over an hour of wandering, I...

This is a weird time of year to be thinking about deer. It’s turkey season, the fishing is getting really good across the country, and we ar...

For the first time ever, a captive-raised deer has been released into the wild whitetail population to slow the spread of Chronic Wasting Di...

Spring means gobbling turkeys, pleasant temps, and more daylight. It’s also the start of a long offseason of whitetail scouting that spans t...

You can’t overlook Wisconsin’s No. 1 ranking when scrolling through the Boone and Crockett Club’s 17,465 record-book entries for white-taile...

Rifle hunting, specifically for whitetails, tends to get side-eyed compared to bowhunting. There’s an obvious level of skill, dedication, an...

Anyone reading this could look at my daily step counts since early February and know exactly what I’ve been up to. For me, it’s partly a cop...

Baiting is one of the biggest hot-button issues in hunting. Regardless of species, everyone has an opinion. This is especially true for deer...

A couple weeks ago, my daughters and I made the drive to southern Minnesota for a weekend of shed hunting. Usually by the third week of Febr...

I stopped when I noticed two does feeding about 300 yards off, and whispered to my wife that I was going to practice aiming. Moments later,...

Hunters drool over fresh rubs and scrapes. They’re thrilling to see during a scouting session or hunt, but deer are drawn to them for other...

When I first started tracking whitetail bucks in the big woods, things always seemed to go the same way. I’d find a buck track, and then I’d...

Two years ago, I was ready to throw hands at the next person to tell me to go mobile. I had only recently ditched ladder stands for climbing...

There’s a small section on a particular piece of public I look forward to hunting every year during the peak rut. There’s about a three- or...

I live in a part of the South known as the Pine Belt. Most of the public lands in this part of Mississippi and Alabama consist almost entire...

On December 15, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced the end of a controversial CWD control program: a sharpshooting init...

Several years ago, I drew a limited hunt on public ground in my state. Part of that draw required hunters to harvest a doe before filling th...

For dedicated whitetail hunters, December can feel like a comedown after a killer party. November holds the noise and excitement of the seas...

The Homochitto River winds through the southwest corner of Mississippi and empties into the river that shares the state’s namesake. Other th...

It took me fourteen years to finally hunt out of state, but when I finally took the plunge, I went hard. I chased whitetails on public land...