Large white-tailed deer buck shaking off rain in an open meadow during a rain storm in Smoky Mountain National Park. Motion blur from slow shutter speed© Tony Campbell/Shutterstock.com Every fall, the ...

When it’s fall in Massachusetts, the red maples ignite with color, there’s a sharpness in the air, and a rite of passage eons old begins in the woods. It’s rut season—the annual white-tailed deer ...

Deer hunters get excited when they hear that the rut is at hand. That’s because of what the rut means to big bucks. The rut is something that occurs over several weeks in the fall. It’s the period ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s ...

Reports from across southwest Alabama and southeast Mississippi show that the annual white-tailed deer breeding season is heating up. The best indication that does are showing signs of coming into ...

BISMARCK -- The deer rut in North Dakota begins in early September and ends around the middle of December. Big game biologist Bill Jensen of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department explains deer rut ...

Once again, it is time for your annual report on the rut for deer season. First things first: What is the rut? As you know, your humble outdoors writer is trying to be helpful. The friends, family and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A big deer walks out of the thick stuff, eases down the trail, and stops broadside just 20 yards away. He scans the surroundings, ...

There are certain times during South Carolina's lengthy deer hunting season that hunters really anticipate. There's the Aug. 15 opening date for hunting bucks on private lands in the lower portion of ...

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