Mature bucks, known as alphas, leave their home range for excursions, sometimes traveling miles. While the reasons for these excursions are not fully understood, they are likely related to mating, ...

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 ...

It was the afternoon of Nov. 1 – the day after Halloween – when Joey Allen and his six-year-old daughter, Elody, climbed into an elevated stand. They were hunting on private property in Missouri’s ...

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 ...

Despite being postponed for two weeks, the Arkansas Big Buck Classic attracted a giant slate of vendors selling a range of ...

A Mississippi woman harvested a buck with unusual antlers on her first hunt in six years. The buck appeared unexpectedly during daylight hours on the opening day of gun season. The hunter plans to ...

It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ridge in New York’s Hudson River Valley, where, on a clear day, you could see the Empire State ...