The first real cold sit of late season can feel like a fresh start, but it often exposes every... The post Late-season deer ...

Yet another white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mating season is behind us now. This year I spent a truckload of time in the woods following several large bucks who were actively searching for ...

When humans fall into a rut, it’s understood that our lives have become routine and boring. When a road becomes rutted, overuse in wet conditions have resulted in a dangerous drive. But if you’re a ...

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.

Tired of sitting in a treestand yet? By the time the rut rolls around, many of us have spent days’—even weeks’—worth of hours 20 feet off the ground, just waiting. If you’re itching to get down and ...

Bucks tolerate a lot of natural noise in the woods, but the wrong call at the wrong time will... The post Deer calling mistakes that scare bucks off instantly appeared first on The Avid Outdoorsman.

The eight-point buck was oblivious to the steady stream of vehicle traffic around him, sniffing the ground in a front yard on Arrowhead Road in Duluth, grunting loudly as he went. There was a doe ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed deer through the brush. I stopped and made a slow stalk through the weeds and ...

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...

Cellular trail cameras really are fantastic tools for researching a local deer herd and their habits. Last December on public land in Manatee County, at a time when the peak of the rut had been over ...

Take a late-night drive out to the countryside and you’ll likely see a deer or two crossing the road in front of you, and as October wears on into November, more and more deer will be on the move in ...