In most parts of the country, white-tailed deer rutting season hits hard around November. Bucks are chasing does, running through the woods and open spaces, and making themselves unusually visible.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're in the heart of the rut now. If you hunted this past week, your woods were probably rocking, with does flying through the timber, tongues lolling, and bucks hot on their tails. As we move into ...

Bowhunters and youth hunters have been putting down some bruisers across the Midwest. It’s truly amazing how much change has occurred in buck harvests during the past 20 years as so many more bucks ...

When David Moreland talks about deer, a lot of people listen, especially hunters. And, when he was talking deer during Friday’s frosty morning, he had just climbed down from his East Feliciana Parish ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and deer hunters everywhere, it's time for your favorite deer season topic, and that is the rut. I was contemplating skipping a column on this wildly popular deer-related ...

I froze when I saw the flash of gray. Glimpsing antlers, I steadied my rifle. But something was odd: the red oak to my left, the decaying log in front, the forked maple sapling… This was the exact ...

Bowhunters and youth hunters have been putting down some bruisers across the Midwest. It’s truly amazing how much change has occurred in buck harvests over the past 20 years. So many more bucks are ...