And once bowhunting seasons open, few things will keep you out there hunting and scouting effectively as carrying backups for critical gear that can get lost, misplaced, damaged or broken. Untimely ...

Hemorrhagic disease (HD) in deer has been recently confirmed through diagnostic testing in Boone, Camden, Cole, Jackson, Linn and Osage counties. MDC has received at least 100 reports of additional ...

Even in northern-tier Midwestern states, ticks are active and crawling for seven months or more yearly, and smart hunters everywhere will take precautions to prevent disease-carrying tick bites. I’ve ...

For a week and a half in August 2024, Grainger Pollert swallowed more saliva than he could’ve spit during a lifetime of sitting in a dentist’s chair. Collecting trail camera photographs of a massive ...

Staying ultra-mobile lets me hunt a wide variety of potential hotspots in a relative short period of time. Today, I’m just as comfortable hunting huge new tracts of public land as long-familiar ...

After four years of dedication, Evan Proctor finally closed the chapter on a 218-inch Manitoba whitetail buck he's pursued through countless encounters and rich history. This massive Canadian deer was ...

Which is right for you depends on how you use it. As more people try to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels, electric and hybrid automobiles are becoming available and more popular. The same is ...

When wildlife biologist Brad Wheat and Gene Zirkle, program manager for Fort Campbell Fish and Wildlife, heard that a monstrous buck had been hit and killed by a vehicle on post, they pretty much knew ...

Mike Handley has decades of experience measuring, researching and writing about monster bucks. Each week, Mike will update everyone in the Big Buck 411 Blog on giant whitetail news from across North ...

QUESTION: Last year I planted a plot of Imperial Whitetail Clover. It came in really good, but someone told me I should mow it. I’m wondering when the best time to mow is? — K. Nelson, Brewton, Ala.