Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The peak rut can be challenging, but by hunting the right spots where you expect to find traveling bucks or a buck with a doe, you ...

A practical gallery on the hard-earned lessons seasoned whitetail hunters learn about timing, pressure, movement, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual ...

When someone says they're stuck in 'a rut,' our minds jump to a problem that needs to be fixed. However, when a nature enthusiast or hunter mentions 'the rut,' our minds think of deer. The rut happens ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...

Big male mule deer buck with large velvet antlers reaching up to get a mouthful of scrub oak leaves in the early morning autumn light. He is now shedding his summer fur coat, Wet Mountains, Colorado© ...

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Focus on prime food sources where exhausted bucks will feed to recover from the rut and search for late-cycling does. Check pre-rut rub lines for fresh sign and continue running trail cameras on ...

While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks. The rut is something that occurs over several weeks in the fall. It’s the period ...

At this point in the deer season, all serious whitetail hunters have two important questions to answer: When will that target buck move? And where will he go? To answer these questions, we can use ...

In the back of my mind I always wondered about the danger. Almost nothing in the outdoors is as unpredictable as a buck during the rut. It’s the time of year when bucks, complete with swollen necks ...