Halloween is a very special timeframe for me, due primarily to the fact that autumn has peaked ... Halloween is a key timeframe for whitetail bucks becoming “bewitched” in their quest to ...

Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to deer.

I killed my first rutting whitetail buck in 1971. Like most deer hunters ... As daylight shortens in the fall, especially past the Autumn Equinox when nights become longer than days, hormones ...

A whitetail buck shot last month south of Crookston near Climax, Minnesota, that initially tested “suspect” for chronic wasting disease has now been confirmed as positive, based on secondary ...

Whitetail deer, as are other Cervidae, are termed “short-day breeders.” What that means is their hormones and pheromones are influenced to a great degree by light and photoperiodism.