This is the hilarious moment a blacktail buck wandering through Foresthill, California during the rut on November 20 finds a decoy deer and accidentally flings it through the air. Donald Trump issues ...

When someone says they’re stuck in ‘a rut,’ our minds jump to a problem that needs to be fixed. However, when a nature enthusiast or hunter mentions ‘the rut,’ our minds think of deer. The rut happens ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...

The prospects for deer hunters filling that buck tag in New York state this year have never been better, even though the tag itself has not only changed … but like a whitetail in the woods … poof, in ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen and deer hunters everywhere, it's time for your favorite deer season topic, and that is the rut. I was contemplating skipping a column on this wildly popular deer-related ...

Editor’s note: This column first appeared Saturday, Nov. 15 in The Trailhead, a free email newsletter featuring Penn’s Woods coverage of Pennsylvania’s great outdoors on lehighvalleylive.com and ...