It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...

I settled into my stand and waited. The Kentucky pre-rut with cool afternoon temps combined with the early muzzleloader season had me hopeful. Soon after sitting down, deer poured into the CRP fields ...

Tired of sitting in a treestand yet? By the time the rut rolls around, many of us have spent days’—even weeks’—worth of hours 20 feet off the ground, just waiting. If you’re itching to get down and ...

As the calendar flipped to November, white-tailed deer are approaching the peak of their breeding activity — known as the rut — around mid-month. Field & Stream writer Scott Bestul reports some days ...

Every fall, the woods of Arkansas are alive with excitement as white-tailed deer begin the rut, their yearly mating season. Normally ghostlike in the woods, bucks throw aside their caution, striding ...

In most parts of the country, white-tailed deer rutting season hits hard around November. Bucks are chasing does, running through the woods and open spaces, and making themselves unusually visible.

Whitetail deer hunting in New York covers a variety of seasons and hunting implements. Of course, like most outdoor activities, timing is everything. The time is now if you are looking to take ...

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It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...