Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can answer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton ...

In recent years, The Hunting Public name has become synonymous with DIY, public land whitetail hunting. Known widely for their deer and turkey hunting videos on YouTube, the THP crew is primarily ...

It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it’s usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...

UNLESS YOU CONSIDER the impenetrable 30 acres of head-high cattails in the old oxbow slough, the wildest part of this working alfalfa field is the stand of green ash and slag-bark cottonwood trees on ...

Throughout the winter months, whitetail bucks cast off or “shed” their antlers in response to dropping testosterone levels ...

In Iowa, the whitetail deer population decreased by 11% from 2024 to 2025 with a particular decline noted in central and western Iowa in the wake of severe hemorrhagic disease impacts from ...

Deer hunters checked more than 230,000 deer during the season that ended Feb. 1. See the changes proposed for next season.

Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can answer ...