A hunter in Mississippi first saw a buck with promise in 2022 and by 2025 it had become a trophy, 180-class giant.

The author with her Wisconsin buck; Morgan Altfillisch, a 10-year-old hunter, puts her hands on her first deer. I had my rifle loaded by 5:45 a.m. on Wisconsin’s opening morning. I was warm from the ...

On Nov. 23 at 11 a.m., Mike Waters of East End left me a voice message that I could barely decipher. Waters was barely intelligible because he was hyperventilating over a big buck down. Waters didn't ...

As the whitetail deer hunting industry has grown through the decades, so too have the controversies. Record bucks get poached and then shared on social media as legitimate trophies. Hunters shoot high ...

A Mississippi hunter thought sounds he was hearing were being made by a squirrel, but it was a huge buck that he thought ...

I had my rifle loaded by 5:45 a.m. on Wisconsin’s opening morning. I was warm from the walk in, and my feet were still on fire from the HotHands I’d stuck in my boots, but I knew the drill: Cool down ...