College senior Micah Belt spent an extra day visiting his family in the town of McAlester, Oklahoma. That’s because his dad, Lloyd, had convinced him to try for a massive whitetail buck he’d recently ...

WITH HIS ANTLERS FLASHING in the sun­ light, the buck bounded out of the hemlocks. I pulled the longbow to full draw as the deer ran broadside to me, 35 yards away, but a brush pile between us blocked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author with her Wisconsin buck; Morgan Altfillisch, a 10-year-old hunter, puts her hands on her first deer. I had my rifle ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in Wisconsin. Steven Loomans of Madison shot the buck on the final day of the metro ...

For deer, the records as of Dec. 2, 2025, included typical deer numbering 2,582 shot in archery and 1,861 shot by a firearm, in addition to 27 pickup deer that can mean an entire deer rack from a ...

The end of the calendar year means that most of America’s deer seasons have also come to an end. And as we close out 2025, it’s a good time to look back on some of the biggest and best deer hunting ...

The Biggest Whitetail Bucks of 2023 While the current deer season is still going strong for some lucky hunters, another calendar year of deer hunting is now behind us. And with the new year upon us, ...

I had my rifle loaded by 5:45 a.m. on Wisconsin’s opening morning. I was warm from the walk in, and my feet were still on fire from the HotHands I’d stuck in my boots, but I knew the drill: Cool down ...