Longtime deer hunter and outdoor writer Ben East explains the biggest mistakes both deer and deer hunters make in the woods.

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 ...

Hunting season started in August for some big game species but the heart of the annual event, the major rifle seasons for deer and elk, are still to come. The buck deer season for most units runs from ...

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 ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission will vote on a proposal next week that may change when this year's rifle deer season will ...

The Game Commission's board of commissioners are looking at two options to change the start of rifle deer season this year.

A Mississippi hunter thought sounds he was hearing were being made by a squirrel, but it was a huge buck that he thought ...

Then, despite its wounds, the shark turned back toward the swimming buck. Angry and excited now, I followed and rammed the ...

There’s a sweet spot in deer calibers where you get plenty of punch without the kind of recoil that makes you flinch before the shot breaks. Big-bodied whitetails don’t require magnum-level punishment ...

Whether you are glad to see the 2025 Whitetail deer season end or sad to see it go, your opportunities for big game hunting ...

On the night of Nov. 7, Dakota Holcomb, Nick Holcomb, and Andrew Allen drove through fields in the town of Richford, sweeping ...