When the conditions and terrain are just right, nothing beats still hunting for whitetails. Here's how to do it.

One advantage rifles still hold is how predictably they create exit wounds. With bonded or controlled-expansion bullets, you ...

For most hunters pursuing white-tailed deer with a firearm in Wisconsin, the shot at their quarry isn't long, typically less than 100 yards. If the hunter waits for the best, most ethical shot, the ...

Straight-wall deer rifles aren’t new, but recent regulation changes have created booming demand for them. For decades, if you were a Midwest or East Coast deer hunter living in a densely populated ...

For a good part of the season, deer hunting can be as much an obsession as it is enjoyment. Why else would anyone spend so many hours sitting in a tree? But when the rut is over in the North Country; ...

Hunter safety experts emphasize three basic firearm rules: treat every firearm as if it were loaded, never point a firearm at ...

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 ...