Someone recently asked me how they could improve the teats on their does. I told them to find a buck whose dam had the teats they wanted. Whether you’re aiming to improve teat placement, milk ...

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

This respectable buck might actually have genes for much bigger antlers. Photo courtesy of Larry Downey Whenever you hear news of a big buck being killed, you can bet someone will say, “I hope he got ...

While bucks are fattening their bodies and growing antlers, female deer (otherwise known as does) are preparing for a short period of breeding behavior or estrus. This breeding period, called deer ...

Each year, hunters tag some phenomenal typical and nontypical bucks. But few of them generate as much attention as a gnarly cactus buck. But what, exactly, is a cactus buck, and how is it that these ...

When it comes to managing white-tailed deer for trophy antlers, even quality ones, it is part science and part luck. The biology shows there are three things required to produce big antlers year in ...

Deer are so focused on finding a mate that they’re getting tangled in Christmas lights, Colorado wildlife officials said. A buck was spotted wandering the state wrapped in Christmas lights, a photo ...

Yet another white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mating season is behind us now. This year I spent a truckload of time in the woods following several large bucks who were actively searching for ...