Stumbling across a fresh rub or scrape in the woods gets any hunter's heart racing. These territorial markers have long been ...

Annual visits to outdoors shows reveal scores of new products each year – a testament to the hunting industry’s penchant for innovation, however, some of these products are hot for only a little while ...

When a predator like a lion walks through the grasslands, it makes its presence known by roaring, which can be heard miles ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

New research reveals deer may deliberately prefer resin-rich trees during the rut. These scented surfaces help carry chemical signals and astonishingly, this may reflect ultraviolet light visible to ...

Scrapes are the surest sign of the oncoming rut. A scrape has two elements, scrapes in the dirt — often with urine or feces — and a "licking branch" directly over the scrape. A buck uses its antlers ...

Most of the more than 400,000 whitetail hunters who will be afield this weekend on the Minnesota firearms deer opener hope to shoot a big buck. Few will. Everyone, however, can hunt successfully. Here ...