College senior Micah Belt spent an extra day visiting his family in the town of McAlester, Oklahoma. That’s because his dad, Lloyd, had convinced him to try for a massive whitetail buck he’d recently ...

This story, “Old Crooked Horn,” was originally published in the September 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. The big mule deer buck was mad. He wheeled, lowered his head and charged Vaughn Wilkins, who was ...

Would you go 180 miles away to hunt deer — if you had them in your own backyard? Probably not, unless you had buck fever. I don’t mean the acute kind that leaves you trying to swallow your Adam’s ...

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

A Pennsylvania teen harvested his first-ever buck on the first day of expanded Sunday archery hunting. The following day, the teen's father also arrowed a massive buck on a different property. This ...

At least once each hunting season, a lucky whitetail hunter goes undercover on a tiny tract property and winds up coming face-to-face with one of the biggest bucks in all of the land. Lady Luck and Mr ...

Waters took a different tone with this reporter. He was as proud as could be, but he was also miffed by the injustice of it ...

Mississippi leads the nation in harvesting mature bucks (three years or older), with 80% of harvested bucks meeting this criteria. Hunters in Mississippi are selective, allowing younger deer to mature ...

This story, “13…Unlucky?” appeared in the October 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. Would you go 180 miles away to hunt deer — if you had them in your own backyard? Probably not, unless you had buck fever.

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...