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3 Brothers Tag Monster Bucks During Kansas Youth Season

October 12, 2022   |  From Articles

What’s better than harvesting a monster buck on opening night? Well, having your brothers take their own monster bucks during the same hunt, of course. That’s how it happened for brothers Noah, Micah, and Westin McCauley during the Kansas youth season in September. Tevis McCauley, the boys’ father, owns and...

How to Read Rub Lines

October 6, 2022   |  From Articles

“Look at this rub!” Alicia shouted. I know that my wife has seen more than her fair share of buck rubs, but the nature of her reaction proved that what she’d just found was very, very special. As I hurried over to where she was standing, my jaw dropped. Right...

Presidential Blades

October 6, 2022   |  From Articles

Although an American president has practically everything done for him these days, there was a time when he had to shoulder the grunt work just like the rest of us: pencils to sharpen and envelopes to open; potatoes to peel and sticks to whittle. Chances are the commander-in-chief performed such...

19 Crazy Deer Hunting Videos

October 5, 2022   |  From Articles

Deer hunting is full of surprises — good and bad. Rarely do things go according to plan in nature, but that’s OK, because it’d be boring if it did. Sometimes, you need something interesting to shake it up. Some of these videos are just that. Others are just shocking, wild,...

7 Most Common Reasons Deer Hunters Get Tickets

October 4, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

You love to hunt, and you play by the rules. As well-intentioned as you may be, it is easy to get lackadaisical and inadvertently break a hunting law. Here are the 7 most common reasons deer hunters get tickets. 1. Failure to Read the Regs Season dates and bag limits...

A Big NoDak Buck with a 10-Year-Old Bow

September 29, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

North Dakota is home to a lot of Pope & Young whitetails. It’s a land rich with bowhunting opportunity that few hunters capitalize on, but Andrew Dusek does. This season, he arrowed a great early season buck. He grew up hunting with family and friends, including one he called his...

Waterhole Sit on 90-Degree Day Yields Super Wide Buck

September 27, 2022   |  From Rack Reports

Heath Rayfield, co-host of The Woodsman, has long been a serious whitetail hunter. He, along with Cody Nickels of Double Nickel Outfitters, watched a massive whitetail this summer. They didn’t have any history with the deer from previous seasons. Still, watching this deer blossom into a huge deer was something...

4 Types of Buck Rubs You Need to Know

September 27, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Fresh scrapes are the most alluring buck sign in the woods during the rut, but rubs are more important to your season-long strategy. Here’s how to place value on four types of rubs and how to determine which ones can help you pin down and kill a big deer. Type:...

30 Reasons You Won’t Get Your Target Buck This Fall

September 26, 2022   |  From Articles

We deer hunters expect every new season to be the best one yet. That’s a good attitude to have, because you’d be a salty curmudgeon if you didn’t. But rarely does a season turn out exactly as we hope, especially if you’ve got a specific target buck in mind. What’s...

The Sixth Sense, Part II: A Deer Hunter’s Intuition

September 21, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

No sound is made. No sight is seen. No smell is sniffed. But hairs stand at attention anyway, and you know. You know there’s a big buck standing just out of sight, and a slight turn of the head proves your intuition true. Discussions of the whitetail’s sixth sense have...

The Sixth Sense, Part I: A Whitetail’s Secret Weapon

September 20, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Your target buck steps out 75 yards away. Cool as a cucumber nowhere near a chopping board, he casually feeds along the timberline toward you. You’re well-hidden with no chance of making noise, and the soft breeze signals a steady crosswind. The situation is dang near perfect, and you’re a...

6 of Our Last 11 Bucks Have Had CWD. Now What?

September 15, 2022   |  From Articles

I caught movement to my right as the buck walked around the side of the hill below a rock outcropping, nose to the ground and on a mission for the first hot doe. I slowly stood and came to full draw as he disappeared briefly behind a large red oak...

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