It will be difficult for the Bucks, who have salary cap restraints, to make a big splash before the Feb. 6 trade deadline.

Yet another white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mating season is behind us now. This year I spent a truckload of time in the woods following several large bucks who were actively searching ...

A Massachusetts bowhunter managed to squeeze in a short public-land hunt after work one day. He ended up arrowing a big ...

The rut starts in mid-October and runs through ... In addition to fighting, the big bucks will also rub their antlers on tree trunks. This often results in stripping the bark off the young tree.

Big bucks will frequent the areas, hoping to put some weight back on after an exhausting few weeks. The third and final tip for hunting the post rut is focussing back again on the does.

Big bucks who go home with hunters have sired many bucks in earlier seasons ... It’s common knowledge among deer hunters that deer get run down during the rut from aggressively seeking any breeding ...