Buckle your safety belts, and keep your bow in hand. The time of year deer hunters dream about is upon us. The midpoint of October has come and gone, welcoming another fall. With the colorful display ...

Meanwhile, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November here in the Northeast and the Midwest in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” This season, unlike last year, the ...

Minnesota's firearms deer hunting season opens Nov. 8. However, the length of the season varies slightly by geographic region ...

Jack-o-lanterns and whitetail deer have something in common because Halloween is the key timeframe when the whitetail rut in ...

As the Minnesota firearms deer hunting season approaches, the DNR says hunters should have good opportunities to harvest a deer in most areas.

Far too many hunters think February is just for attending sport shows and dreaming about next year. When in fact, there are plenty of hunting and trapping opportunities available this month across the ...

Far too many hunters think February is just for attending sport shows and dreaming about next year, when in fact, there are plenty of hunting and trapping opportunities available this month across the ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation is offering a free mentored deer hunt in Boone County for youth hunters, ages 11-15.

During the 2024 count, volunteers observed 412 cranes. The 2025 results show a 4% increase in reports in one year. Volunteers surveyed 31 counties this year and found cranes in 24 of them. The five ...

It wasn’t just an oak, it was the oak. My friend Tom VanDoorn—a logger and the best big-woods deer hunter I know—and I had scouted dozens of similar trees within a 10-mile radius of his cabin since ...