“He had a 30- or 40-inch bigger rack this year compared to last year,” says Dowty, a 48-year-old oil-field worker from Erick, Oklahoma. “He was living in big white oak creek bottom draws near CRP ...

A game camera took a nice photo of the buck that Willy Johnston wanted, but camera bucks seldom turn up during a hunt.

WITH HIS ANTLERS FLASHING in the sun­ light, the buck bounded out of the hemlocks. I pulled the longbow to full draw as the deer ran broadside to me, 35 yards away, but a brush pile between us blocked ...

This story, “The All-Time No. 1 Whitetail,” appeared in the November 1979 issue of Outdoor Life. The Jordan buck remains the No. 1 largest typical ever taken by a hunter in the U.S., and the second ...

Opening day of Michigan’s firearm deer hunting season brought hundreds of hunters to Jerome Country Market, home to the state ...

Despite the distance limitations, deer hunting with bows and arrows in Mississippi has produced some monster bucks. In fact, to break into the Top 10 net scores for typical bucks taken with archery ...

After working hard to track deer in northern Michigan, I finally tagged my buck just a mile from my barn. Here's how.

At least once each hunting season, a lucky whitetail hunter goes undercover on a tiny tract property and winds up coming face-to-face with one of the biggest bucks in all of the land. Lady Luck and Mr ...

After Wisconsin hunter Jim Jordan shot a 200-plus-inch buck in 1914, his taxidermist vanished — along with the massive antlers. Six decades later, the buck was finally recognized as the largest ...