Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late ...

Deer are usually wired to avoid people, which is why the moments when they do the opposite can feel so jarring. Most outdoor encounters end with a flick of a tail and a quick retreat into cover.

The crunch of something stepping on dry leaves catches your ear. The noise stops for a minute, then resumes. You turn your head as slowly as possible so as to be imperceptible in movement. It’s autumn ...

According to the National Deer Association, during the 2023-2024 hunting season, U.S. hunters successfully harvested more than 3 million whitetail bucks, thus establishing a new record for mature buck ...

Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to deer.

This story, “Whitetails Make Mistakes,” appeared in the December 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. I’VE BEEN HUNTING deer for close to 40 years, and I can count on my fingers the rack-carrying whitetails I ...

Rutting season for deer has arrived, and Pacific Grove residents are noticing more aggressive behavior than normal. “Rutting season has begun early,” said Carmelita Garcia, President of PG Deer ...

SERC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Taking the controversial approach that deer hunting has become more a "social event" than an affirmation of the more basic human ...

The ranch real estate experts at James Bigley Ranches share essential facts about whitetail deer behavior today, including ...