The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...

Occurred on November 20, 2025 / Foresthill, California, USA Info from Licensor: "During the blacktail deer rut here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, I set up a deer decoy to see the ...

Over the past four archery seasons, I’ve chased plains mule deer in South Dakota with no success. I struck out on every stalk, whether it was because the wind swirled or a deer busted me during my ...

Resembling a 2-1/2-year-old buck, and that’s being generous, this imposter agitates, instead of intimidates. At $150, that’s a great tool to have. Dave Smith Decoys could be considered art pieces, the ...

This question came in last week from a local hunter. This individual loves to use decoys and made the statement, “Anything I can call and use decoys to help bring it in goes way up on my priority list ...

With the final days of October slipping by, the time of year that every whitetail hunter dreams of is at our doorstep. The frost-covered leaves will be crunching under your boots on the walk in, and ...

All of a sudden, archery season will be upon us. Like a frost in the morning follows a warm, Indian Summer afternoon. Seems like summer is never going to end. And then bow season is suddenly here.

Before dawn on Oct. 27, Blake Treisch was driving to a friend’s farm in north-central Ohio. Everything was going well until he got pulled over by a local policeman because he had an unlighted license ...

Waterfowl hunting has a reputation for being expensive, but hunters don’t need to shell out tons of money on a boat or a truckload of waterfowl gear to be successful. That’s especially true in a state ...