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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...

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...

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...

Buckeye Buck Named Hollywood Wakes Hunter from Catnap

October 7, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Seventeen-year-old Ohio hunter Dawson Snider spent a few years dreaming about the giant buck that woke him as he lightly dozed in his blind on the morning of Sept. 26, 2021. He and his father first saw the deer in 2018, when it was 3 1/2 years old. It was...

9-Year-Old’s First Bow Buck is an 8-Point Stud

September 27, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

Nine-year-old Drake Kelty has the deer hunting bug, bad. His dad, Ryan, says Drake killed his first deer at age 5 with a .223. In the years that followed, Drake took several more deer with a rifle, and last season, he decided to take up bowhunting. He ended up getting...

5 Best Stand Setups for Pre-Rut Bowhunting

September 27, 2021   |  From Articles

I’m predicting a “trickle rut” this fall, based largely on the timing of the full moons in mid-October and mid-November. I expect a good number of does, more than usual, to cue off the bright illumination and pop into early estrus from October 16, through the full moon on the...

A 22-Point Buck on Maryland’s Opening Day

September 27, 2021   |  From Rack Reports

If you glance at the Rack Report distribution map , you’ll see that a small fraction of Rack Report bucks come from the Northeast. When one does make the cut, it’s time to lean in and start reading, because you’re probably in for a good deer story. That’s especially true...

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