Once again, it is time for your annual report on the rut for deer season. First things first: What is the rut? As you know, your humble outdoors writer is trying to be helpful. The friends, family and ...

A heavy-racked buck beds down for the day. Wind sweeping from behind, and eyes scanning down below, danger has little chance of finding him before he detects it. After all, that’s why the buck picked ...

The peak of the rut might be behind us, but deer season is far from over. In fact, late-season hunting brings its own set of challenges and opportunities. As bucks wind down from their breeding frenzy ...

Most buck rubs go cold once the rut gets into full swing. But there's one type of rub that can help you tag a peak-rut trophy ...

If there’s anything deer hunters can agree on, it’s that we love to argue. There’s plenty to debate: scent control vs. hunting the wind, treestand vs. saddle hunting, compounds vs. crossbows — the ...

Idaho has some of the most pristine wilderness in the country, largely undisturbed for generations. And as unchanging as the seasons, each fall, white-tail deer and mule deer go a little wilder than ...

Getting stuck in a rut is the traditional goal of every South Texas deer hunter. The deer rut, or annual breeding cycle, begins in mid-December and continues through early January in the fabled brush ...

For deer hunters, the rut is like Christmas, and it encapsulates all of the excitement that we love about the sport. The rut is the height of the breeding season for whitetailed deer. The dates vary ...