Angela Parker spent a year watching and waiting for the deer she called one of her “target bucks,” and on Oct. 26, her ...

Despite being postponed for two weeks, the Arkansas Big Buck Classic attracted a giant slate of vendors selling a range of hunting products and services. In its 36th year, the Big Buck Classic is the ...

This story, “Murphy’s Pride,” originally ran in the May 1989 issue of Outdoor Life. In the fireplace, a log burned through and set off a fusillade of sparks as it plunked between the andirons. Murphy ...

Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...

Hunting season started in August for some big game species but the heart of the annual event, the major rifle seasons for deer and elk, are still to come. The buck deer season for most units runs from ...

JARED SCHEFFLER’S ideal archery shot on a whitetail buck is either quartering to or facing head-on. He hunts exclusively from the ground. Scheffler shoots a longbow, and he uses heavy arrows that are ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you want to harvest a big, mature buck, Mississippi is the place to hunt. Year after year, Mississippi has been recognized by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whitetail buck in a grassy field. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a ...