When deer hunters and wildlife professionals refer to “the RUT,” they mean the time when white-tailed deer are breeding. It’s a time when buck deer become less concerned about safety and are more ...

Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late October, leading up to the high point of daytime action, as opposed to ...

While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

Every fall, you are told the same story about the rut: pick a promising stand, sit tight, and eventually a crazed buck will cruise past in daylight. The problem is that this tidy picture ignores how ...

The regular 2025-2026 deer season will end on January 19, with the closing of the flintlock season. Those hunters that have been unsuccessful will no doubt be thinking about the big buck that got away ...

If you’re an archery hunter in Pennsylvania, now is the best time of the year. Deer are entering their breeding season, known as the rut, which means bucks are busy chasing off smaller bucks and ...

The heavy eight-point buck burst out of the blackberry thicket like a launched missile. Within In seconds, he was bounding ...

Male white-tailed deer rub their heads on trees and urinate on scraped-up earth to leave "signposts," which glow under ultraviolet light, a study suggests. Frank Hildebrand via Getty Images Every fall ...

When it comes to managing white-tailed deer for trophy antlers, even quality ones, it is part science and part luck. The biology shows there are three things required to produce big antlers year in ...