I settled into my stand and waited. The Kentucky pre-rut with cool afternoon temps combined with the early muzzleloader season had me hopeful. Soon after sitting down, deer poured into the CRP fields ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the first few weeks of bow season, a buck’s predictability factor typically diminishes. Changing food sources coupled with sudden hunting pressure and newly disbanded bachelor groups can often ...

A week of muzzleloader hunting and three days of firearms season for antlerless deer is now complete. In some areas, deer populations may already be reacting, either through a reduction in doe numbers ...

It’s that time of year when deer hunters’ thoughts turn to the annual rut and how to get one of those mature, love-sick bucks into their sights. For many, the first trick they pull out of their ...

Every fall, you are told the same story about the rut: pick a promising stand, sit tight, and eventually... The post The rut ...

If one wants to get into a fistfight at deer camp, bring up scrape hunting. The use of hunting over, or near, scrapes is a much-debated topic in the world of the whitetail. Again, all I can pass along ...

The guys were on me a bit, back in October, just before Halloween. Even interrupted their card game. “So, where’s the rut?” “Stinks out there.” “Ain’t no deer no-how.” “Might as well play golf.” And ...