With the year coming to an end, we look back on some of the biggest bucks and the best deer hunting stories from 2025.

Prowling around the big woods is deer hunting as our forefathers knew it. From the rugged mountains of New York’s Adirondack Park to the sprawling bottomland of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, there ...

Longtime deer hunter and outdoor writer Ben East explains the biggest mistakes both deer and deer hunters make in the woods.

A buck watches its backtrail. The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and shooting him at close range. Executing a hunt like this takes skill, patience ...

Dwelling within the heart of all dedicated deer hunters is the belief that the biggest bucks live in the deep woods. There’s no true definition for “deep woods.” It varies from coast to coast. It ...

The buck continued to walk toward Pittman, so Pittman put his binoculars down and picked up his rifle. The buck was directly ...

Hunting is a longstanding tradition locally and Pennsylvania's rifle deer season continues to attract big numbers in search of trophy bucks.

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

The big whitetail moved steadily, head lowered, nosing a course through a lunarlike landscape of earth mounds, dark puddles and hair-thick brush. Strip mining had turned the area raw and made hunting ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Wildlife Board approved the big game hunting permit numbers for 2025, as well as a few other changes to big game hunting rules in Utah, during its public meeting on May 1.