This story, “Mystery of The Hinkley Deer,” appeared in the August 1969 issue of Outdoor Life. I saw the buck alive only the one time, and he was dead a minute after I caught sight of him. The last ...

Robbie Flint with the giant Maine buck he hunted from the ground. The wind was blowing the afternoon of Nov. 4, when 29-year-old Robbie Flint and his 18-year-old brother, Gage Boyington, headed toward ...

For most of her life, the idea of shooting a deer was unthinkable to Amy Rush. An animal lover who once believed hunting was cruel, she grew up watching her uncle bring home “beautiful, free animals” ...

Austin Carver’s 291-pound, 11-point buck hangs on a scale in Presque Isle, the heaviest deer reported in Maine for the 2025 season. Credit: Courtesy of Austin Carver With the final day of Maine’s deer ...

Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

As deer hunters, we rely on facts and figures. We like analyzing data because it can help us better understand the game we manage, hunt, and work to conserve. “White-tailed deer are the most important ...