Research by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State University discovers the truth about deer movements during rut, weather and moon phases.

During mating season, male deer experience an increase in testosterone and gland secretions, which makes them more aggressive, less afraid, and singularly focused on finding a mate. In the state of ...

The appearance of chronic wasting disease has prompted the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to increase deer surveillance in southwest Indiana in the next hunting season.

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 ...

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CASTLE PINES, Colorado (KCNC) — Late autumn to early winter is known as “the rut,” or mating season for deer. In the last few weeks, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has received several reports ...

His work and that of his fellow biologists gave deer hunters what they have today. It’s a Louisiana divided into 10 deer-hunting areas determined by the study of whitetail behavior.

The 2024-25 general hunting season for white-tailed deer has opened in Texas. Here's what to know.

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 ...