A deer eats a plant you don’t recognize. Then, another, and another, and it “selects” these over your food plot or corn pile. On another hunt, a buck hits several obscure native species, and ...

One of the best times to kill a whopper whitetail is the early season. Minus the distraction of chasing does and battling other bucks, a mature whitetail focuses on one thing: finding groceries. This ...

Black-legged ticks are the primary spreaders of Lyme disease in humans. But in Michigan and other U.S. states, it’s whitetail deer — and not people — that serve as the ticks’ primary hosts. Which is ...

Vadnais Heights, Minnesota. White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus. A pair of fawns eating the vegetation in a field of wildflowers.© Michael Siluk/Shutterstock.com Think tossing corn in your ...

While deer might be a novelty in some parts of the country, in Texas, it feels like we have as many white-tailed deer as we do pets. With their big, doe eyes, long eyelashes, and large, upright ears, ...

If you’re a whitetail nut, I don’t know that there’s any more exciting part of the offseason than late-summer and early fall, when bachelor groups of bucks start pouring into fields and food plots in ...