As spring inches closer, a lot of folks are pulling their fishing gear together and prepping for the coming turkey season. But some of us never stop thinking about whitetails and are already working ...

A deer eats a plant you don’t recognize. Then, another, and another, and it “selects” these over your food plot or corn pile. On another hunt, a buck hits several obscure native species, and ...

Deer hunting is a labor of love. For hardcore whitetail junkies, the work usually begins long before the dawn of another opening day. The clock is ticking. Texas’ Archery Only and Managed Lands Deer ...

BRAINERD — "Oh, so you plant food plots for deer," said a man I met at a sporting goods store. His comment held overtones of resentment. I was not offended; I respect his particular hunting methods, ...

"Late winter finds some deer habitat devoid of the hard- and soft-mast crops and deciduous browse species that they started with the previous fall," Reed writes. "Food plots at this time of the year ...

If you’ve ever watched a whitetail deer browse, you’ve seen them nonchalantly pick specific plants to devour while ignoring others. A fancy way of describing that behavior is to say that deer are ...