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 ...

One of the best times to kill a whopper whitetail is the early season. Minus the distraction of chasing does and battling other bucks, a mature whitetail focuses on one thing: finding groceries. This ...

Food plots are becoming an annual ritual for the nation’s whitetail hunters and land managers, and the yearly conundrum of “what should I plant?” can be vastly simplified if you devote at least a ...

Black-legged ticks are the primary spreaders of Lyme disease in humans. But in Michigan and other U.S. states, it’s whitetail deer — and not people — that serve as the ticks’ primary hosts. Which is ...

WASHINGTON — Fairfax County police reminded everyone that it is illegal to feed deer from Sept. 1 through early January and also through deer hunting season. Many people are thrilled when they see ...