Deer are usually wired to avoid people, which is why the moments when they do the opposite can feel so jarring. Most outdoor encounters end with a flick of a tail and a quick retreat into cover.

Hunters have been trying to understand how the moon affects animal behavior since cavemen etched pictographs on cave walls. Today, biologists acknowledge a link between the full moon and estrus cycles ...

Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late October, leading up to the high point of daytime action, as opposed to ...

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

The crunch of something stepping on dry leaves catches your ear. The noise stops for a minute, then resumes. You turn your head as slowly as possible so as to be imperceptible in movement. It’s autumn ...

The ranch real estate experts at James Bigley Ranches share essential facts about whitetail deer behavior today, including insights for hunters and land managers.

Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to deer.

A tall and heavy 8-point buck pushed a doe up the open ridge and directly toward my tree stand. Three satellite bucks circled and sniffed the air, but couldn’t get within 20 yards of the doe due to ...

SERC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Taking the controversial approach that deer hunting has become more a "social event" than an affirmation of the more basic human ...