It’s now prime time for bowhunters, auto body shops, and roadkill cafes, all thanks to something known as the whitetail rut.

Bowhunters and youth hunters have been putting down some bruisers across the Midwest. It’s truly amazing how much change has ...

A whitetail hunter is always up for the mating season. The rut, as it's called, is a short window of opportunity exercised by the deer and the sportsmen alike. For the buck, a few weeks of November ...

The apparent rut peak is when we see lots of chasing, cars and deer dodge each other, and carcasses litter the highways, ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...

We're in the heart of the rut now. If you hunted this past week, your woods were probably rocking, with does flying through the timber, tongues lolling, and bucks hot on their tails. As we move into ...

It’s been a long wait. But September is finally here, which means early bow seasons have started or are about to start across the county. And that means the annual whitetail rut—the peak event of most ...

This coming Halloween weekend might be the best time to tag your target buck. Here’s everything you need to know.

size confirmed that this was no ordinary Pennsylvania whitetail. Then, the heavy-racked buck was there. Once I had a clear view of him, he was already within my range. I had just enough time to draw ...

This story was originally published in the November 2007 issue of Outdoor Life. November is the time of year every deer hunter anxiously awaits. Throughout more than 90 percent of the whitetail deer’s ...

Deer hunting season in New York reaches its zenith when the Southern Zone regular season begins Saturday, Nov. 15.