OL’s hunting editor recounts that MIlo Hanson was never comfortable with the fame that came after claiming the world record ...

Milo Hanson, who made headlines for hunting the world-record typical whitetail buck in 1993, passed away on Feb. 9.

It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it's usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...

BRAINERD — It's mid-July, and in the world of white-tailed deer bucks, a number of physiological changes are happening. They are beginning to feed more heavily in preparation for the fall rut, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a man and a buck falling down a snowy hillside. I had caugt two fleeting glimpses of the big buck. The first ...

The story below is an updated version of a story that originally published in 2024. Pennsylvania buck have been growing older and bigger for most of the 21st century, allowing more hunters to join the ...

Whitetail deer populations are soaring throughout the country, and the U.S. state of Washington is no exception, although no one expects a buck from the Evergreen State to raise many eyebrows. In fact ...

Four long years were spent eating tag soup during my annual archery trip to the prairie in search of whitetail and mule deer. In the vast flatland, stalking with nothing more than ankle-high grass as ...

This story is a collaboration with the Okayest Hunter. They say we’re always supposed to be moving forward—grow, improve, evolve. When you tag a 6-point whitetail deer, next year it ought to be an 8, ...

No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...