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 ...

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 ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...

Until just recently I always considered scrapes the Holy Grail of deer hunting. Sitting on a fresh scrape line, I had always read, for a long enough period of time would guarantee you a mature buck ...

With late summer fishing still going strong, it may be hard to think about deer hunting. But if you don’t do a bit of ...

Deer hunters who depend on wild food sources for stand sites can find their placement problematical from one year to the next because wild mast producers, such as oaks, beech and wild apples are ...