Joe Moore has been my hunting buddy since high school. I killed my first deer with a bow out of one of his treestands in 1996. Last week, Joe killed the biggest buck of his life with a bow. He’s been ...

It was the afternoon of Nov. 1 – the day after Halloween – when Joey Allen and his six-year-old daughter, Elody, climbed into an elevated stand. They were hunting on private property in Missouri’s ...

This story, “13…Unlucky?” appeared in the October 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. Would you go 180 miles away to hunt deer — if you had them in your own backyard? Probably not, unless you had buck fever.

The truth be known, I never bought a Michigan hunting license of any kind until just before the firearm deer season in November 1963, when I was 14. For a Thumb farm kid back then, a hunting license ...

CLYDE – Barney’s Carryout is carrying on the tradition of the old-time big buck contest with a photo on the winner’s board. The photos are done with cell phones today and not Polaroid cameras, but ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in Wisconsin. Steven Loomans of Madison shot the buck on the final day of the metro ...

Ben Reece first heard about the buck he shot on November 7 in mid-September when a friend spotted it on his trail camera far from where Reece planned to hunt. He thought the buck was impressive, but ...

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

Would you go 180 miles away to hunt deer — if you had them in your own backyard? Probably not, unless you had buck fever. I don’t mean the acute kind that leaves you trying to swallow your Adam’s ...