For a week and a half in August 2024, Grainger Pollert swallowed more saliva than he could’ve spit during a lifetime of sitting in a dentist’s chair. Collecting trail camera photographs of a massive ...

Does it help in the hunting of the bucks? A little. But, the coolness factor will come in when I harvest one of those soon-to-be trophy bucks and can create a collage of his antler growth from the ...

Last year, however, the rut wasn’t all that. “It was slow,” he said. “I didn’t see much in the way of deer activity that week. The 10-pointer was the biggest I’d gotten off my two trail cameras, but ...

Fishing for largemouth bass on Nolin Lake, whitetail deer breeding season, crappie fishing. Chad and his daughter fish for largemouth bass on Nolin Lake using live crayfish, a technique wildlife ...

I read and studied every moon-based deer rut methodology, but while they all had good points, great logic, and of course photos of big bucks, I was never really sold on any of them 100%. But some ...

So this year’s rut forecast is based on what happened in the deer woods, not just 19 years ago, but 38 years ago, too, when November’s full moon landed on Nov. 4, having not only the exact ...

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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.

Driftwood Outdoors: Whitetail deer rut in full swing across Midwest November 3, 2024 at 12:09 a.m. by Brandon Butler/Outdoors Columnist ...

Three of Bestul’s picks for the best days of the rut fall in the next week, beginning Saturday, Nov. 2. That’s No. 2 on his list, followed by Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5 and Friday, Nov. 8.

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 ...