There’s a pattern emerging in the world of trophy whitetail hunting. It’s how two of the greatest bucks of all time were taken last season, and it’s how the world record may be shattered this fall.

JARED SCHEFFLER’S ideal archery shot on a whitetail buck is either quartering to or facing head-on. He hunts exclusively from the ground. Scheffler shoots a longbow, and he uses heavy arrows that are ...

So, here we are in the off-season. Whatever any of us saw from our stands last fall, it is interesting (and to some extent ...

The perfect compound bow setup for whitetails will be easy to draw and shoot accurately from a treestand when the pressure is on and your heart is racing. It will be properly tuned. And it will sling ...

For most of us, July is a month reserved for fishing, grilling, and maybe the beach. Not Minnesota whitetail expert Bob Borowiak, who starts scouting around July 4th and continues until the season ...

The early buck-only hunt Sept. 6-8 offers deer hunters the first opportunity of the 2025-26 season to take a buck. Many hunters refer to this short season as the "velvet hunt," because it offers ...

Now that October has arrived and there’s a tiny hint of autumn in the air, Pennsylvania bowhunters can start to get serious about their pursuit of the official state animal – the whitetail deer. For ...

Central Ohio is prime whitetail county, with plenty of farmland and scattered hardwoods. Spencer Hartings, 36, has been bowhunting the region, primarily in Crawford County, for more than 20 years.

According to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, a whitetail buck killed in September by an archery hunter was the largest recorded whitetail buck taken by an bowhunter in Wyoming. Shane Sanderson, ...

This story, “Ghost Buck,” appeared in the November 1991 issue of Outdoor Life. The Bruce Jameson buck ultimately scored 248 1/8 inches after deductions, according to Boone and Crockett. Although it ...

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 ...

I test a pile of new compound bows every year, shooting thousands of arrows in the process. As a result, I go through many targets. Delta McKenzie sent me its 3D Big Daddy Buck several years back. I ...