I settled into my stand and waited. The Kentucky pre-rut with cool afternoon temps combined with the early muzzleloader season had me hopeful. Soon after sitting down, deer poured into the CRP fields ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

After the first few weeks of bow season, a buck’s predictability factor typically diminishes. Changing food sources coupled with sudden hunting pressure and newly disbanded bachelor groups can often ...

A week of muzzleloader hunting and three days of firearms season for antlerless deer is now complete. In some areas, deer populations may already be reacting, either through a reduction in doe numbers ...

It’s that time of year when deer hunters’ thoughts turn to the annual rut and how to get one of those mature, love-sick bucks into their sights. For many, the first trick they pull out of their ...

With the beginning of the pre-rut about to get underway scrape lines will be popping up as the big bucks mark their territories. It offers bow hunters that edge they’re looking for to put themselves ...

Whitetail deer hunting in New York covers a variety of seasons and hunting implements. Of course, like most outdoor activities, timing is everything. The time is now if you are looking to take ...

If one wants to get into a fistfight at deer camp, bring up scrape hunting. The use of hunting over, or near, scrapes is a much-debated topic in the world of the whitetail. Again, all I can pass along ...

The guys were on me a bit, back in October, just before Halloween. Even interrupted their card game. “So, where’s the rut?” “Stinks out there.” “Ain’t no deer no-how.” “Might as well play golf.” And ...