Longtime deer hunter and outdoor writer Ben East explains the biggest mistakes both deer and deer hunters make in the woods.

Some years Veterans Day appears as the hottest time, with grunting bucks and chasing, torn up rubs and scrapes, deer-car ...

Pressured deer are not mythical ghosts that vanish at the first hint of boot tracks, but a lot of... The post The biggest myths about hunting pressured deer appeared first on The Avid Outdoorsman.

Every fall, you are told the same story about the rut: pick a promising stand, sit tight, and eventually... The post The rut ...

Deer are some of the most interesting mammals on the planet. The way they move, feed, operate and interact with one another is truly fascinating.

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 ...

I froze when I saw the flash of gray. Glimpsing antlers, I steadied my rifle. But something was odd: the red oak to my left, the decaying log in front, the forked maple sapling… This was the exact ...

Some years, the difference in deer activity between late October and the first few days of November is so great you almost wonder if deer can read calendars. Just a few years back, I sat on Halloween ...

Every fall, the woods of Arkansas are alive with excitement as white-tailed deer begin the rut, their yearly mating season. Normally ghostlike in the woods, bucks throw aside their caution, striding ...