In New York’s Southern Zone, the regular firearms big game — deer and bear — season stretches across 23 crisp November days, ...

Call me crazy, but I absolutely love this part of the deer season. When the snow flies and the bitter cold that my home state of Minnesota is known for settles in, I know that if I do my part, I’m ...

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

On Nov. 23 at 11 a.m., Mike Waters of East End left me a voice message that I could barely decipher. Waters was barely intelligible because he was hyperventilating over a big buck down. Waters didn't ...

One thing our area abounds in is large tracts of forested land. However, clear cuts, gated roads and tree stands have limited ...

This story, “The Trophy Trap,” was originally published in the November 2006 issue of Outdoor Life. It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ...

Harvesting a trophy buck is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for many hunters, but for one Mississippi man, it was just a part of an unforgettable year.