“What deer is that?” said Keith Chaffin, outfitter on the Junco Ranch in South Texas—the same ranch where Lyndon Johnson used to chase whitetails. He adjusted the spotting scope for a closer look. “He ...

Creed David had been watching the big Missouri buck on a cellular trail camera, and he waited for the right weather window to ...

Hunting stories about big deer are woven deeply into the fabric of Outdoor Life, and we look forward to hearing and sharing these stories each fall. These tales come from all over North America, and ...

Tracking whitetails in the Northeast might be the most difficult of all hunting pursuits — unless you’re Hal Blood ...

I went to the Sonora Desert to hunt giant mule deer. The deer were bigger, and the tracking conditions tougher, than I could ...

A whitetail hunter is always up for the mating season. The rut, as it's called, is a short window of opportunity exercised by the deer and the sportsmen alike. For the buck, a few weeks of November ...

Outdoors columnist Tom Lounsbury never bought a Michigan hunting license of any kind until just before the firearm deer ...

Even after the deer broke into the open, l still couldn't believe my eyes. There’s a place in the hill country of southern Ohio, not far from the town of Beaver, that the local farmers have called ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — On Nov. 11, Frosty Adams put the cross hairs on one of the biggest whitetail bucks in Nebraska hunting history. Now the 15-year-old deer hunter is keeping his fingers crossed that the ...