White-Tailed Deer

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15-Inch-Wide 9-Pointer Grosses 164 and Change

October 22, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Just about every deer hunter dreams of Kansas . There’s something special about its rich ag ground in the eastern region, and its wide-open spaces in the western part. Heath Rayfield, who is part of the Buckventures crew, knows what the Land of Oz has to offer. Rayfield has been...

Deer Gores Michigan Woman

October 22, 2021   |  The Realblog with Stephanie Mallory

A Michigan woman suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a young buck last month. The deer, which wore an orange collar, attacked Patty Willis when she was checking on a chicken coop on her property in Au Gres Township. “He pushed me way back and I fell on my...

Bowhunter Reunited with 200-Inch Buck After Shed Hunter Recovers It

October 21, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Kentucky resident Kyle Culbreth is a dedicated deer hunter. He loves spending time in the outdoors with his family and friends. “Deer hunting is a way of life for my family,” Culbreth said. “Checking trail cameras is my 4-year-old daughter's favorite thing to do on weekends. She usually ends up...

Why Oct. 20 Kicks off the Best Bowhunting of the Year

October 20, 2021   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Historical “rut curves” assembled by whitetail biologists over decades show that while bucks have been sign-posting for weeks now in the early fall, they really crank up their scraping around October 20. Data also show that in central and northern states, 5 to 7 percent of a herd’s does are...

Why Deer Hunting on Halloween is Scary Good

October 18, 2021   |  From Articles

Halloween is a time for candies and costumes. But to deer hunters , it’s much more than that. Hunting on Halloween has long been a tradition, and it’s the signature kickoff for the rut. The sun sets on October, and the madness begins. Still, it requires the right approach to...

40-Acre Farm Yields a Monster Typical Buck

October 18, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Own the Season’s Art Helin is a veteran bowhunter who knows whitetails. Good woodsmanship is in his blood. This season, it came as no surprise when he came face-to-face with a monster 7-year-old Wisconsin buck on his own 40-acre property. Helin has owned the place for 27 years, and it...

Dan Infalt Arrows Another Public-Land Booner

October 15, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Dan Infalt, founder of The Hunting Beast, shoots a lot of big deer. He has around three dozen shoulder mounts as proof. It came as no surprise this season when he arrowed a 7 ½-plus-year-old public-land buck he’d been watching for four year. The buck was mature — and big...

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Oak Tree ID Guide: The Different Acorn-Producing Tree Species

October 14, 2021   |  From Galleries

If you’ve spent any amount of time deer hunting in the timber, there’s a good chance you’ve hung a stand in an oak tree . Oaks are synonymous with whitetail hunting because of the acorns they drop in late summer and early fall. That mast crop gets a lot of...

Austin Riley on Baseball, Deer Hunting, and Respect for the Game

October 13, 2021   |  From Articles

Austin Riley is just like the rest of us — except he’s a lot better at baseball than probably anyone reading this. Everyone around him saw his natural skills early, including his dad, who coached him from Little League right through high school summer ball. Mississippi State offered him a...

Hunter Rattles in a Cow, Then a Big September Buck

October 11, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Wildlife artist Nicole Weller Larson and her husband, Brent, put a lot of time and effort into hunting whitetails, and they don’t settle for just any buck. Their goal is to harvest mature deer only. The properties they hunt are thick with does, too, so they usually try to shoot...

Little Brother Passes a Coyote, Scores on a Kansas Stud

October 9, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

A few weeks ago on the Realtree Rack Report, we posted the story of 12-year-old Westin McCauley’s 211-inch Kansas monarch . Westin’s 10-year-old brother, Micah, also made the trip from Kentucky for the Sunflower State youth hunt, and he took a Kansas king of his own. As noted in Westin’s...

Jeff Danker’s Flyer Buck Has Triple Drop Tines

October 8, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Early season cold fronts have led to the demise of many mature bucks. These weather events and temperature swings have the incredible power of sparking daylight deer activity. When you get them, deer move — even the big ones. It’s that simple. Jeff Danker, host of Buckventures, knows this. On...

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