Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

When the forest gets dark, it’s almost impossible for us humans to find our way (without flashlights). But for white-tailed ...

Earlier studies suggest that other mammals also glow under UV light, but the reasons why have been vague. Deer use the same ...

During the breeding season, white-tailed deer might use their eyes and noses to navigate signs—forehead secretions on trees ...

Researchers in Georgia studied hundreds of rubs, scrapes, and markers left by male deer. These markers seemed to glow in ...

As the calendar page turns from October to November, daylight wanes and temperatures drop, reassuring bowhunters the best days of archery deer season are still to come. The action is just picking up ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...

Brainerd, Minn. - It was nearly 3:30 p.m. when I decided to bow hunt from my favorite deer stand. The date was Nov. 12, 2012, one day after the close of Minnesota's Zone 2 firearms deer season. I ...

Just after daylight on a recent morning, I was sitting in a blind on Bobby Parker’s Camp Verde Ranch when a really nice buck with 13 typical points and beams that turn down on the ends walked down the ...

Annual visits to outdoors shows reveal scores of new products each year — a testament to the hunting industry’s penchant for innovation. However, some of these products are hot for only a little while ...